- From: Kelly Ford <Kelly.Ford@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:28:40 +0000
- To: "'UAWG list' (w3c-wai-ua@w3.org)" <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
FYI, Kelly -----Original Message----- From: Shawn Henry [mailto:shawn@w3.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 5:04 AM To: WAI Interest Group Cc: Shadi Abou-Zahra; Simon Harper Subject: Call for Papers: Accessible E-Learning - Online Symposium Dear WAI Interest Group Participants, The W3C WAI Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) invites you to share your experiences with accessible e-learning for an online symposium to be conducted on 16 December 2013. See: Accessible E-Learning Online Symposium http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2013/e-learning/ The primary objective of this symposium is to share e-learning experiences and research; discuss different approaches to address accessibility issues in e-learning contexts; and explore next steps to advance accessibility in e-learning environments, including Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). In particular, the objective is to investigate: * Relationships and integration between content accessibility and interface accessibility. * Evaluating accessibility of e-learning environments. * Accessibility of e-learning environments used in non-conventional contexts and/or by means of non-conventional devices (i.e. m-learning, t-learning). * Privacy issues in profiling learners and e-learning environments users. * Experiences and examples of accessible MOOCs. * Comparisons and analysis of e-learning standards related to accessibility. * Experiences and examples of standards implementations in e-learning environments. * Different standards, compliance and integration. 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. *If you are interested in contributing to this Symposium*, please submit your paper by: *15 November 2013* via the instructions at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2013/e-learning/cfp.html --- Background on RDWG: 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. For links to an FAQ with more information and a wiki that includes potential topics for future symposia, see the RDWG home page <http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/> 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 Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible. Short URI to this archived e-mail: http://bit.ly/RDe-learn1 Regards, Shawn Lawton Henry, WAI Outreach Simon Harper, RDWG Co-Chair Shadi Abou-Zahra, RDWG W3C Staff Contact ----- 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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