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WelcomeW4A 2008
5th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility
21/22 April 2008 - Beijing, China
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Your W4A PackYour W4A Pack
* Should Include:Proceedings BookletCDChallenge Evaluation Form
Fill in by end of Last Coffee Break on Tuesday
Various Flyers
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FREE FREE MEMBERSHIPSMEMBERSHIPS
* Fill in the form
* Return to us
* We’ll process it!
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SponsorshipSponsorship
* Thanks to our sponsors & supporters:
•Microsoft
- Web Accessibility Challenge Sponsored by Microsoft for five years!
•Zakon Group
•Mozilla foundation
•Daisy Consortium
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AwardsAwards
* Best Paper Award - technical paper
* John M Slatin Award - communication paper
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Special IssueSpecial Issue
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
Chair: Leo Ferres ([email protected])
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Social EventSocial Event
* Our Monday night social will be 18:00-20:00 at the Lijiang Hall, Beijing Continental Grand Hotel (BCGH).
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Keynotes Keynotes
Shadi Abou-ZahraTV Raman
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ThemeTheme
* What happens when surfers become authors?
• Web author numbers are increasing; but this dilutes the technical capability of web authors - what does this mean for accessibility?
• How well do web authoring tools and user agents (including AT) support accessible authoring?
• And how accessible are these web authoring tools - whether available publicly as part of the Social Web or as corporate business tools?
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SubmissionsSubmissions
* 12 accepted for Technical papers (acceptance rate 36%)
• 7 Communication papers,
• 4 Web Accessibility Challenge submissions
* Geographically diverse, covering 5 continents:
• AUS, BRA, CAN, ESP, GBR, GER, GRE, ITA, POR, THA, TPE, UGA, USA
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ProcessProcess
* Each submission peer-reviewed by 3 reviewers
* We used the rebuttal process for the first time to enable responses to reviews
* Author rebuttals were influential in making final selections
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Interactive DataInteractive Data
* Comments - Critique -
* Slides - http://www.slideshare.net/event/w4a2008
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Let’s Get Started!Let’s Get Started!
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* Next Year:
•Please check our Website: http://www.w4a.info/
* DAISY files - ACM DL!!
* ACM SIGACCESS Membership!!
* ASSETS 2008 (SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility)
•http://www.sigaccess.org/assets08/
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