- From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:09:44 -0600
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- CC: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
Dear WAI Interest Group, At ICCHP 2014 in Paris in July, W3C WAI is chairing a special session around "25 Years of the Web: Weaving Accessibility". We invite you to share your research, experience, and current work on web accessibility. Topics of particular interest include: * ways to accelerate the implementation of web accessibility * rapidly evolving areas, such as mobile accessibility <http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/> and touch interfaces <http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/indieui> * accessibility needs, such as of people with cognitive and learning disabilities <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/cognitive-a11y-tf/> * overlapping user needs, such as of older people <http://www.w3.org/WAI/older-users/> and mobile web users <http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/overlap> For more information see: 25 Years of the Web: Weaving Accessibility http://www.icchp.org/node/487 Key Dates: *Submission deadline for extended abstracts*: 1 February 2014 Notification of acceptance: 1 March 2014 Deadline for camera-ready papers: 4 April 4 2014 ICCHP 2014 pre-conference: 7-8 July 2014 ICCHP 2014 main conference: 9-11 July 2014 This session is organized with funding from the EC-funded WAI-ACT Project (IST 287725) described at: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/ACT/> We look forward to an engaging session on weaving more accessibility into the Web to make it a better place for all. Regards, Shawn Lawton Henry, WAI Outreach Shadi Abou-Zahra, WAI International Program Office Activity Lead ----- Shawn Lawton Henry W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) e-mail: shawn@w3.org phone: +1.617.395.7664 about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
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