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Submission
We will accept technical papers and communications. Technical papers and communications should be in full paper format (upto 10-pages). Accepted papers and communications will appear in the Conference proceedings contained on the Conference CD, and will also be accessible to the general public via the ACM Digital Library website. The official language of the Conference is English. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel. Submissions MUST contain substantial original, unpublished material. Please refer to the ACM policy on plagiarism for guidance.
Technical papers should present significant scientific advances that are at a mature stage of development. We are looking for full papers that present relevant contributions to research, development, and practice in the area of Web Accessibility, which will fit in with any of the topics listed in the call for papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel. Submissions MUST contain substantial original, unpublished material. Please refer to the ACM policy on plagiarism for guidance. Technical papers will be marked as such in the proceedings.
Communications should present interesting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready for a regular technical paper. We are looking for interesting and bold papers in all areas of Web Accessibility technology and its application, which will fit in with any of the topics listed in the call for papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel. Submissions MUST contain substantial original, unpublished material. Please refer to the ACM policy on plagiarism for guidance. Communications will be marked as such in the proceedings and will not be included in our technical paper statistics.
Copyright Information
All papers must be submitted in .pdf format for reviewing. The following style files must be used for submissions:
LaTeX:
- sig-alternate.cls
- sig-alternate.tex
- sig-alternate.pdf
- Note: Ensure your submission is formatted for Letter paper. Ensure your submission uses:
\documentclass[letterpaper]{sig-alternate}in your LaTeX file, and use 'dvips -t letter'. - Note: Some authors are reporting problems with the ACM class file. According to the ACM, this is due to a bug in the MikTeX installer. These are modified versions of the ACM proceedings style files.
Microsoft Word:
- pubform.doc
- Note: Ensure your submission is formatted for Letter paper.
General Instructions
These are modified versions of the ACM proceedings style files. All authors should be listed on the front page. 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 10 pages. Communications papers and position papers should not exceed 4 pages (including all figures, tables, and references. Over-length or incorrectly formatted submissions may be rejected without reviews).