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Programme
Programme 2008
MONDAY 21st Title and Presenter
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction

Keynote
09:00 - 10:00 Cloud Computing And Equal Access For All T.V. Raman
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Session 1 - Accessibility and the Social Web
10:30 - 11:00 Technical Paper:
The Impact of Accessibility Assessment in Macro Scale Universal Usability Studies of the Web Rui Lopes and Luis Carrico
11:00 - 11:30 Technical Paper:
Is Wikipedia Usable for the Blind? Marina Buzzi and Barbara Leporini
11:30 - 11:50 Communication Paper:
The Accessibility Kit for SharePoint - A Community-Based Approach to Web Accessibility Robert B. Yonaitis, Dana Louise Simberkoff, Kurt A. Mueffelmann and Cynthia Shelly
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
Session 2 - User Agents and an Accessible Rich Internet Application
13:00 - 13:30 Technical Paper:
The CISNA Model of Accessible Adaptive Hypermedia Robert Dodd, Steve Green and Elaine Pearson
13:30 - 14:00 Technical Paper:
A Syntactic Analysis of Accessibility to a Corpus of Statistical Graphs Leo Ferres, Petro Verkhogliad, Livia Sumegi, Louis Boucher, Martin Lachance and Gitte Lindgaard
14:00 - 14:20 Communication Paper:
A Web Compliance Engineering framework to support the development of accessible Rich Internet Applications Carlos A Velasco, Dimitar Denev, Dirk Stegemann and Yehya Mohamad
14:20 - 14:40 Communication Paper:
Grouping hyperlinks for improved voice/mobile accessibility Alex Penev and Raymond K. Wong
14:40 - 15:00 Communication Paper:
AxsJAX: A Talking Translation Bot Using Google IM Charles Chen and T.V. Raman
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Session 3 - Making the Mobile Web Accessible
15:30 - 16:00 Technical Paper:
MokE: a tool for Mobile-ok evaluation of Web Content John Garofalakis and Vassilios Stefanis
16:00 - 16:30 Technical Paper:
Evaluating Web Accessibility for Specific Mobile Devices Markel Vigo, Amaia Aizpurua, Myriam Arrue and Julio Abascal
16:30 - 17:00 Technical Paper:
WebAnywhere: A Screen Reader On-the-Go Jeffrey P. Bigham, Craig M. Prince and Richard E. Ladner
18:00 - 20:00 Conference Meal - Chat, relax, and share views and ideas in a more informal setting.
20:00 - Onwards Post Meal Social
   
TUESDAY 22nd Title and Presenter

Keynote
09:00 - 10:00 Looking To The Future: Web Accessibility, Ageing, and Emerging Web Trends Shadi Abou-Zahra
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Session 4 - Accessibility and the Community
10:30 - 11:00 Technical Paper:
A Survey on the Accessibility Awareness of People Involved in Web Development Projects in Brazil Andre P. Freire, Cibele M. Russo and Renata P.M. Fortes
11:00 - 11:20 Communications Paper:
Thailand's National Digital Divide Strategic Framework Prodpran Punyabukkana, Suchai Thanawastein and Ajin Jirachiefpattana
11:20 - 11:40 Communications Paper:
Enabling Access to Geo-referenced Information: Atlas.txt Kavita E. Thomas, Livia Sumegi, Leo Ferres and Somayajulu Sripada
11:40 - 12:00 Communications Paper:
An Accessibility Evaluation Platform: Borrowing from Web 2.0 Yui-Liang Chen and Gina Lin
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
Session 5 - Web 2.0 and Accessibility
13:00 - 13:30 Technical Paper:
WCAG 2.0: A Web Accessibility Standard for the Evolving Web Loretta Guarino Reid and Andi Snow-Weaver
13:30 - 14:00 Technical Paper:
E-learning 2.0: you are We-LCoME! Stefano Ferretti, Silvia Mirri, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Marco Roccetti and Paola Salomoni
Session 6 - Web Accessibility Challenge
14:00 - 15:00 Challenge Presentations
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00 Challenge Conclusions
Session 7 - Accessibility and Diversity
16:00 - 16:30 Technical Paper:
A Web Design Framework for Improved Accessibility for People with Disabilities (WDFAD) Rehema Baguma and Jude T. Lubega
16:30 - 17:00 Technical Paper:
One World, One Web … But Great Diversity Brian Kelly, Liddy Nevile, EA Draffan and Sotiris Fanou
17:00 - 17:15 Closing
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