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posted by Simon HARPER at
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The Fourth "Web Accessibility Challenge", sponsored since 2008 by Microsoft, is organised to give an opportunity to researchers and developers of advanced Web accessibility technologies for showcasing their technologies to technical leaders in this area not only from academia and industry but also from end-users. We would like to encourage and accelerate development of innovative and practically usable Web accessibility technologies.
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posted by Simon HARPER at
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posted by Simon HARPER at
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The deal enables conference attendees to receive 10% discount off accommodation booked through world's leading websites including Hotels.com, Booking.com, OctopusTravel.com and many others.
After you have made a booking fax or email HotelsCombined.com the following information:
By Email: ConferenceRebates@hotelscombined.com
The name on your reservation receipt must match the name registered at the conference. HotelsCombined.com will confirm your registration with the W4A organisers and refund you with 10% rebate after the end of conference; normally within 1 week.
You can start your booking at hotelscombined.com.
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posted by Simon HARPER at
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posted by Simon HARPER at
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Gregg Vanderheiden is a professor of Industrial and Biomedical Engineering, and director of Trace R&D Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked in technology and disability for more than 38s years and currently directs the NIDRR Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Information Technology Access, and co-directs the RERC on Telecommunications Access (joint with Gallaudet University).
Dr Vanderheiden was a pioneer in the field of Augmentative Communication (a term taken from his writings in 1979), and worked with people having physical, visual, hearing and cognitive disabilities. His work with the computer industry led to many of the access features that are standard today. For example, access features developed by Dr. Vanderheiden and his team (e.g., StickyKeys, MouseKeys, etc.) have been built into the Macintosh OS since 1987, OS/2 and the UNIX X Window system since 1993, and more than half a dozen were built into Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, Vista and now System 7. His work is also found in the built-in access features in ATMs, Point of Sale terminals, and cross-disability accessible USPS Automated Postal Stations, as well as the accessible Amtrak ticket machines, and in airport terminals.
Dr. Vanderheiden has served on numerous professional, industry and government advisory and planning committees including those for the FCC, NSF, NIH, VA, DED, GSA, NCD, Access Board and White House. Dr. Vanderheiden served on the FCC's Technological Advisory Council, was a member of the Telecommunications Access Advisory committee and the Electronic Information Technology Access Advisory Committee (508 and 255 refresh) for the US Access Board, and served on the steering committee for the National Research Council's Planning Group on "Every Citizen Interfaces," and the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine Committee on the Future of Disability in America.
He has received over 30 awards for his work on technology and disability include the ACM Social Impact Award for the Human-Computer Interaction Community, the Ron Mace Award, the Access award from AFB, the Yuri Rubinski Memorial World Wide Web Award (WWW6), and the Isabelle and Leonard H. Goldenson Award for Outstanding Research in Medicine and Technology (UCPA).
posted by Simon HARPER at
09:11
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The Fourth "Web Accessibility Challenge", sponsored since 2008 by Microsoft, is organised to give an opportunity to researchers and developers of advanced Web accessibility technologies for showcasing their technologies to technical leaders in this area not only from academia and industry but also from end-users. We would like to encourage and accelerate development of innovative and practically usable Web accessibility technologies.
This year’s theme, "Developing Regions: Common Goals, Common Problems?" addresses the accessibility challenges produced by the hyper-growth of mobile phone penetration in the developing countries. Next step is obviously to access the Web. The Web has already touched the lives of over a billion people and now is the time for the next billions.
However, this expansion faces unprecedented accessibility challenges. Even the word "accessibility" needs a new definition for people in the developing regions. How can someone who is illiterate or barely literate access the Web? In some cases, a language may not even have a written form. The affordability of the technology is also a challenge, while access is constrained by low computational power, limited bandwidth, compact keyboards, tiny screens, and even by the lack of electric power. All of these constraints compound the problems of access and inclusion.
The desire for access in developing regions and the resourcefulness of the people who want inclusion unite the communities of people in developing regions and the communities of disabled people in the developed world. What problems exist, what are the newly appearing problems, and what solutions are required? What can we learn from existing traditional accessibility solutions? What about people with disabilities in the developing world?
Submissions related to this year's topic are encouraged but it is certainly not a requirement as all accessibility technologies are welcomed for the challenge.
A presentation and demonstration session will be part of the W4A event, so at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference.
Deadline is 19-Feb-2010 (Midnight Hawaii Standard Time)
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posted by Simon HARPER at
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We'd like to thank the IW3C2, ACM and the ACM SIGACCESS, Zakon Group, Microsoft Research, Mozilla, and Google for all their support in arranging and funding the conference.
