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.

The workshop was held on Tuesday the 10th May 2005 at the Makuhari Messe (Nippon Convention Center). We welcomed 35 attendees and were the biggest workshop at the conference. We accepted 40% of all submissions, each paper was peer reviewed by 3 of our programme committee. Comments from our attendees, and our workshop evaluation questionnaires, suggested that they enjoyed the workshop and would be participating again next year. Our social programme also attracted 17 of our delegates. Overall we judge the workshop to be a great success. Bambang Parmanto et. al., for - AcceSS: accessibility through simplification and summarization

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