Again hoping that this might be useful.
--- On Wed, 9/23/09, Yeliz Yesilada <yesil...@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote: > From: Yeliz Yesilada <yesil...@cs.man.ac.uk> > Subject: W4A 2010 -- Preliminary Call for Papers > To: dev-accessibil...@lists.mozilla.org > Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 12:08 PM > The Seventh International > Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web > Accessibility (W4A 2010) > > 'Developing Regions: Common Goals, Common Problems?' > > Co-Located with the Nineteenth International World Wide Web > Conference > (WWW2010), in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 26-27 April > 2010. > > Important Dates > ------------------- > * SUBMISSIONS: > > TECHNICAL and COMMUNICATION Papers: > 01 Feb 2010 (Midnight Hawaii Standard Time) > > WEB ACCESSIBILITY CHALLENGE: > 19th Feb 2010 (Midnight Hawaii Standard Time) > > More details: <http://www.w4a.info/2010/submissions/dates.shtml> > > Keynote Speakers > -------------------------- > * Steve Bratt (CEO, WWW Foundation) > > * Gregg Vanderheiden (Director Trace R&D Center, > Professor, University > of Wisconsin-Madison) > > Publications > ------------------- > * The conference proceedings will be published as part of > the ACM > International Conference Proceedings Series and will > be available at > the ACM Digital Library. > > > Topics and Content > ------------------- > A revolution in the information society is now starting, > based on the > use of mobile phones in developing countries. The > hyper-growth of > mobile phone penetration is deeply changing the lives of > people in > most of the world; their ways of communicating, working, > learning, and > structuring their societies. The promising next step is > obviously to > access the Web. The Web has already touched the lives of > over a > billion people and now is the time for the next billions. > > However, this expansion faces unprecedented accessibility > challenges. Even the word "accessibility" needs a new > definition for > people in the developing regions. How can someone who is > illiterate or > barely literate access the Web? In some cases, a language > may not even > have a written form. The affordability of the technology is > also a > challenge, while access is constrained by low computational > power, > limited bandwidth, compact keyboards, tiny screens, and > even by the > lack of electric power. All of these constraints compound > the problems > of access and inclusion. > > The desire for access in developing regions and the > resourcefulness of > the people who want inclusion unite the communities of > people in > developing regions and the communities of disabled people > in the > developed world. Will complex and highly graphical > interfaces exclude > developing regions from access? What problems exist, what > are the > newly appearing problems, and what solutions are required? > How do the > adoption patterns for Web accessibility and inclusion vary > across > cultures? What effect will the Web in the developing > regions have on > accessibility in the developed regions and vice versa? > > Note that while the commonalities between Web Accessibility > and > Developing Regions are this years theme, please don't be > deterred if > this somewhat unique area is not yours. We would like to > see all > quality work on Web Accessibility regardless of the > particular field > within accessibility. The overriding reason for a paper > being accepted > is its high quality in relation to the broad area of Web > Accessibility. > > In this case topics of interests include (but are not > limited to): > > * Inclusion and Citizen Empowerment in Developing Regions; > * Inclusion and Literacy in Developing Regions; > * Enhancing Education in Developing Regions; > * Accessibility Problems in Developing Regions; > * Web Based Employment in Developing Regions; > * Web Based Health Care in Developing Regions; > * Evaluation and Validation tools and techniques; > * User Experimentation looking at Social Networking and > Freedom of Expression; > * User Agents for Developing Regions and User Agent > Guidelines; > * Web Authoring Guidelines; > * Design and best practice to support Web accessibility; > * Technological advances to support Web accessibility; > * End user tools; > * Accessibility guidelines, best practice, evaluation > techniques, and tools; > * Psychology of end user experiences and scenarios; > * Innovative techniques to support accessibility; > * Universally accessible graphical design approaches; > * Design Perspectives; > * Adapting existing Web content; and > * Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation. > > Submission > -------------------- > We will accept position and technical papers, and short > communications. Position papers should only be submitted as > a > communication of (up to 4-pages) whereas technical papers > should be in > full paper format (up to 10-pages). Accepted papers and > communications > will appear in the Conference proceedings contained on the > Conference > CD, and will also be accessible to the general public via > the ACM > Digital Library website. The official language of the > Conference is > English. > > Submission details are available at: > <http://www.w4a.info/2010/submissions/index.shtml> > > > Web Accessibility Challenge > ------------------- > Sponsored by Microsoft since 2008, the "Web Accessibility > Challenge" > is organised to give an opportunity to researchers and > developers of > advanced Web accessibility technologies for showcasing > their > technologies to technical leaders in this area not only > from academia > and industry but also from end-users. More details: > <http://www.w4a.info/2010/submissions/challenge.shtml> > > > Endorsement > ------------------- > W4A 2010 is endorsed by the International World Wide Web > Conferences > Steering Committee (IW3C2) > > > General Chair > ------------------- > Chieko Asakawa and Hironobu Takagi > Accessibility Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM > Research, Tokyo > Japan > > Email: gc-2010-at-w4a.info > > > Programme Chairs > ------------------- > Leo Ferres > Department of Computer Science, Universidad de > Concepción, > Chile > > Cynthia Shelly > Microsoft Co. > USA > > Email: <pc-2...@w4a.info> > > Challenge Chairs > ------------------- > Julio Abascal, Myriam Arrue and Markel Vigo > UPV/EHU, > Spain > > > W4A on the Web > ------------------- > * <http://www.w4a.info> > * <http://www.w4a.info/updates.xml> > (RSS/ATOM News Feed) > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > dev-accessibility mailing list > dev-accessibil...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-accessibility > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. 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