                       Call for Papers

                           W4A 2005
   2nd International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility
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      at the Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference
                10-14 May 2004, in Chiba, Japan.

                      http://w4a.man.ac.uk

Keynotes
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Chieko Asakawa (IBM)
Wendy Chisholm (W3C)
Eric Meyer (Complex Spiral)

Invited Speakers
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Douglas Bowman (StopDesign)
Paul Bohman and Shane Anderson (WebAIM)

Publications
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 - The workshop proceedings will be published as part of the ACM
International Conference Proceedings Series and will be available at the ACM
Digital Library (provisional).  

 - Selected papers will be invited to submit a revised version for
consideration for a special issue of the Journal of Web Engineering. These
papers will go through an additional reviewing process to ensure quality.  

Topics and Content
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We invite submissions for W4A 2004 addressing our current theme of
"Engineering Accessible Design". 

Previous engineering approaches seem to have precluded the engineering of
accessible systems. This is plainly unsatisfactory. Designers, authors, and
technologist are at present playing 'catch-up' with a continually moving
target in an attempt to retrofit systems. In-fact engineering accessible
interfaces is as important as their functionality's and should be an
indivisible part of the development.  We should be engineering accessibility
as part of the development and not as afterthought or because government
restrictions and civil law requires us to. Our workshop will bringing
together a cross section of the web design and engineering communities; to
report on developments, discuss the issues, and suggest cross-pollinated
solutions 

Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):
- Technological advances to support web accessibility.
- End user tools for accessibility.
- Accessibility guidelines, evaluation techniques and tools.
- Engineering Adaptive applications and graphics.
- Tools and techniques enabling authors to create accessible layout / content
  including internationalisation. 
- Psychology of end user experiences and scenarios.
- Innovative engineering techniques to support accessibility.
- Universally accessible graphical design approaches.
- Engineering transcoding techniques.
- Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation.

Submission and Important Dates
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We will accept both position and technical papers. Position papers should
only be in short paper format whereas technical papers can be in short or
long paper format. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings
contained on the workshop CD, and will also be accessible to the general
public via the workshop website. The official language of the workshop is
English. The following style files must be used for submissions: 

LaTeX:
http://w4a.man.ac.uk/2005/backingfiles/sig-alternate.cls
http://w4a.man.ac.uk/2005/backingfiles/sig-alternate.tex
http://w4a.man.ac.uk/2005/backingfiles/sig-alternate.pdf

Notes for LaTeX users:
Ensure your submission is formatted for Letter paper. All authors should be
listed on the front page. 

Microsoft Word:
http://w4a.man.ac.uk/2005/backingfiles/pubform.doc

These are modified versions of the ACM proceedings style files. More
information on the style files can be found at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. 

We encourage authors to submit concise technical papers between 8 and 12
pages. Short papers and position papers should not exceed 4 pages. Please
submit documents via the workshop website (http://w4a.man.ac.uk).  

        Submissions due:                   Friday 11th March 2005
        Notification for acceptance:       Friday 8th April 2005
        Camera ready due:                  Friday 15th April 2005
        Workshop date:                     10th May 2005

Workshop Chairs
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Simon Harper, University of Manchester, UK.
Yeliz Yesilada, University of Manchester, UK.
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK.

Program Committee
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Margherita Antona (ICS-FORTH, Greece)
Helen Ashman (University of Nottingham, UK)
Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester, UK)
Tiziana Catarci (University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
David Duce (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Alistair Edwards (University of York, UK)
Vicki L. Hanson (IBM Research, USA)
Marja-Riitta Koivunen (Annotea, USA)
David Lowe (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University, USA)
Bob Regan (Macromedia, Inc., USA)
Gustavo H. Rossi (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Jaime Snchez (University of Chile, Chile)
Robert Stevens (University of Manchester, UK)
Hironobu Takagi (IBM Research, Japan)
Jean Vanderdonckt (Universit catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium)
Takayuki Watanabe (Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan)

