Re: Fwd: Registration Open: User Modeling for Accessibility Online Symposium - 15 July 2013

*reminder:* everyone who wants to participate needs to register!


On 2.7.2013 20:07, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote:
> Dear Yehya, Christos, RDWG,
>
> Please find below the WAI message announcing the registration for the
> upcoming User Modeling for Accessibility online symposium. Please use
> this message to invite participation.
>
> Best,
>    Shadi
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Registration Open: User Modeling for Accessibility Online
> Symposium  - 15 July 2013
> Resent-Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:12:37 +0000
> Resent-From: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:12:17 -0500
> From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
> To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
>
> Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,
>
> The W3C WAI Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) invites you to
> participate in the online symposium on
>        *User Modeling for Accessibility* on
>        15 July 2013 at 14:00-16:30 UTC
>
> Researchers, practitioners, designers, application developers, users
> with disabilities, and others are invited to participate. The symposium
> will analyze different methods and implementations of user modeling and
> their potential usage for improving accessibility. This includes the
> design, creation, storage, and usage of user models, in particular in
> web browsers, applications, authoring tools, and other aspects of the
> Web. For details, see
>        <http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2013/user-modeling/>
>
> Registration is available from
>        <http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2013/user-modeling/#participate>
>
> Space is limited; we recommend that you register soon to reserve a space.
>
> If you have any questions, contact Shadi Abou-Zahra: shadi@w3.org
>
> ----
> RDWG Background:
>
> The Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) helps:
>   - increase accessibility considerations in research on web
> technologies, including mainstream research,
>   - suggest research questions that may contribute to web accessibility
> research projects,
>   - inform development of web accessibility solutions,
>   - decrease the number of potential barriers in future web-related
> technologies.
>
> RDWG Symposia bring together researchers, practitioners, and users with
> disabilities interested in a particular aspect of web accessibility to
> advance research and development in that area. The online Symposia
> include a panel with the authors of accepted papers, and provide an
> opportunity for participants to ask questions. Symposia proceedings,
> transcript, and a report are available publicly online afterward.
>
> For more information, see the RDWG FAQ: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/process>
>
> We welcome your ideas on this topic and your ideas for future RDWG work.
> Please send comments to the publicly-archived mailing list:
> <public-wai-rd@w3.org>
>
> This Symposium is developed with support of the EC-funded WAI-ACT
> Project (IST 287725) described at: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/ACT/>
>
> If you have any questions, contact Shadi Abou-Zahra: shadi@w3.org
>
> Regards,
> Shawn Lawton Henry, WAI Outreach
> Simon Harper, RDWG Co-Chair
> Shadi Abou-Zahra, RDWG W3C Team Contact
>
>
>
>
> -----
> Shawn Lawton Henry
> W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> e-mail: shawn@w3.org
> phone: +1.617.395.7664
> about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
>
>
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Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/
Activity Lead, W3C/WAI International Program Office
Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG)
Research and Development Working Group (RDWG)

Received on Tuesday, 2 July 2013 19:15:16 UTC