International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

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Monday 22nd / Tuesday 23rd
May 2006

Full Day

Technical Programme 2006
MONDAY 22nd	Title and Presenter
08:45 - 09:00	Introduction
	Session 1 - Early Morning (Designing for Accessibility)
09:00 - 09:40	Keynote: Designing Beneath the Surface of the Web Sarah Horton
09:40 - 10:00	Long: Opening up Access to Online Documents using Essentiality Tracks Matthew T. Atkinson, Jatinder Dhiensa, and Colin H. C. Machin
10:00 - 10:20	Long: Transforming Web Pages to be Standard-Compliant through Reverse Engineering Benfeng Chen and Vincent Y. Shen
10:20 - 10:40	Long: Personalizable Edge Services for Web Accessibility Gennaro Iaccarino, Delfina Malandrino, and Vittorio Scarano
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee Break
	Session 2 - Mid Morning (Client-Side Accessibility)
11:00 - 11:40	Keynote: Structure Benefits All Aaron Leventhal
11:40 - 12:00	Long: Capability Survey of Japanese User Agents and Its Impact on Web Accessibility Takayuki Watanabe and Masahiro Umegaki
12:00 - 12:20	Long: Dialog Generation for Voice Browsing Zan Sun, Amanda Stent, and I.V. Ramakrishnan
12:20 - 12:35	Short: GraSSML: Accessible Smart Schematic Diagrams for All Z. Ben Fredj and D.A. Duce
12:35 - 14:00	Lunch
	Session 3 - Early Afternoon (Mobile Web / Accessibility Overlaps)
14:00 - 14:40	Keynote: The Meaning of 'Life': Capturing Intent from Web Authors Rhys Lewis
14:40 - 15:00	Long: Evaluating Interfaces for Intelligent Mobile Search Karen Church, Barry Smyth, and Mark. T. Keane
15:00 - 15:20	Long: Use of RSS feeds for Content Adaptation in Mobile Web Browsing Alexander Blekas, John Garofalakis, and Vasilios Stefanis
15:20 - 15:35	Short: A Web Browsing System based on Adaptive Presentation of Web Contents for Cellular Phones Yuki Arase, Takuya Maekawa, Takahiro Hara, Toshiaki Uemukai, and Shojiro Nishio
15:35 - 16:00	Coffee Break
	Session 4 - Mid Afternoon (Understanding Accessibility)
16:00 - 16:40	Keynote: Web Accessibility: is it just a 'Merry-go-round'? Donna Smillie
16:40 - 17:00	Long: Automatically Producing IMS AccessForAll Metadata Matteo Boni, Sara Cenni, and Silvia Mirri, et al
17:00 - 17:20	Long: A Semantic-Web based Framework for Developing Applications to Improve Accessibility in the WWW Christos Kouroupetroglou, Michail Salampasis, and Athanasios Manitsaris
17:20 - 17:35	Short: Physical Usability and the Mobile Web Shari Trewin
17:45 - 18:15	Session 5 - Late Afternoon Panel Session 'Is engineering, designing, and building for the mobile Web just a rehash of the same old Web accessibility problems?'
18:15 - 18:20	Monday Wrap-Up
18:20 - 19:30	Break
19:30 - Onwards	Social Programme - We find it useful to chat, relax, and share views and ideas in a more informal setting. So now we'd like to invite our guests to join us for drinks and a meal.
TUESDAY 23rd	Title and Presenter
13:30 - 13:35	Introduction
	Session 6 - Early Afternoon (Practice Related)
13:35 - 13:55	Long: How People use Presentation to Search for a Link: Expanding the Understanding of Accessibility on the Web Caroline Jay, Robert Stevens, Mashhuda Glencross, and Alan Chalmers
13:55 - 14:15	Long: Contextual Web Accessibility - Maximizing the benefit of Accessibility Guidelines David Sloan, Brian Kelly, and Andy Heath, et al
14:15 - 14:35	Long: 2005 Accessibility Diagnosis on the Government Web Sites in Taiwan, R.O.C. Yui-Liang Chen, Yen-Yu Chen, and Monica Shao
14:35 - 14:50	Short: Mobile Phones may be the Right Devices for Supporting Developing World Accessibility, but is the WWW the Right Service Delivery Model? Tapan S. Parikh
14:50 - 18:30	Tuesday Practice Session