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

• Paul Bohman and Shane Anderson (WebAIM)

• The workshop proceedings will be published as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be available at the ACM Digital Library.
• 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.

We invite submissions for W4A 2005 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 engineer accessible layout / content including internationalisation.
• Psychology of end user experiences and scenarios.
• Innovative engineering techniques to support accessibility.
• Universally accessible graphical design approaches.
• Design Perspectives.
• Engineering transcoding techniques.
• Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation.

We will accept position and technical papers, and posters with an accompanying extended abstract. Position papers should only be in short paper format whereas technical papers can be in short or long paper format. Accepted papers and posters (extended abstract) 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. All submissions should be in pdf format created by using the following style files:

• sig-alternate.cls
• sig-alternate.tex
• sig-alternate.pdf

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

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 with between 8 and 12 pages. Short papers and position papers should not exceed 4 pages, and extended abstracts for posters should not exceed 2 pages. Please submit documents via the workshop website.

• Submissions due: Friday 11th March 2005
• Notification for acceptance: Monday 11th April 2005
• Camera ready due: Monday 18th April 2005
• Workshop date: 10th May 2005

• Simon Harper (University of Manchester, UK.)
• Yeliz Yesilada (University of Manchester, UK.)
• Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK.)

• 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.)
• Robert Stevens (University of Manchester, UK.)
• Hironobu Takagi (IBM Research, Japan.)
• Douglas Tudhope (University of Glamorgan, Wales - UK.)
• Jean Vanderdonckt (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium.)
• Takayuki Watanabe (Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan.)

Special travel arrangements and pricing has been negotiated with Continental Airlines. Please see our travel page for more details as and when they become available.