Programme « W4A 2013

Programme

Conference room: El Pardo II, II floor, Windsor Barra Hotel.

Monday 13 | Tuesday 14 | Wednesday 15 “T” stands for technical paper (20 minutes presentation and 5 QA), while and “C” stands for communication paper (10 minutes presentation and 5 QA).

Sunday, 12 May 2013

15:00 – 20:00 Registration

Monday, 13 May 2013

07:30-20:00 Registration

8:45 – 9:00 Opening

9:00 – 10:00 Session 1: Guidelines and Accessibility Evaluation

Chair: Shadi Abou Zahra

Benchmarking Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: Measuring the
Harm of Sole Reliance on Automated Tests (T). Markel Vigo,
Justin Brown, Vivienne Conway. (Markel’s slideshare)
Web Accessibility Snapshot: An Effort to Reveal Coding
Guidelines Compliance (C). Vagner Figueredo de Santana, Rogério
Abreu de Paula.
‘Bring your own problems’: The path to
WCAG 2.0 conformance through industry based training (C). Denise
Wood, Scott Hollier.

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00 Session 2: Universal access, multimodal and mobile
interaction

Chair: Hironobu Takagi

Efficient and effective information finding on small screen
devices (T). Pauli P.Y. Lai.
Essential Components of Mobile Web Accessibility (C). Shadi
Abou-Zahra, Judy Brewer, Shawn Lawton Henry.
GenURC – Generation Platform for Personal and Context-Driven User Interfaces
(C). Gottfried Zimmermann, Bern Jordan, Parikshit Thakur,
Yuvarajsinh Gohil. (See Gottfried’s slideshare slides)
Evaluating Accessibility-in-Use (C). Markel Vigo, Simon
Harper. (See Markel’s slideshare slides on accessibility in use)

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Session 3: Google Student Awards and W4A 2012 Camp
Report

Chair: Giorgio Brajnik

Using Simultaneous Audio Sources to Speed-Up Blind People’s Web
Scanning. João Guerreiro.
Towards Web Accessibility Repair. Nádia Fernandes.
W4A2012 Camp Report Simon Harper, Yeliz Yesilada, Markel
Vigo.

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:30 Session 4: ARIA

Chair: Scott Hollier

Providing Access to the High-level Content of Line Graphs from
Online Popular Media (T). Priscilla S. Moraes, Sandra Carberry,
Kathleen McCoy.
Three Web Accessibility Evaluation Perspectives for RIA
(T). Nadia Fernandes, Ana Sofia Batista, Daniel Costa, Carlos
Duarte, Luis Carriço.
Understanding Users in the Wild (C). Aitor Apaolaza, Simon
Harper, Caroline Jay.
Dynamic injection of WAI-ARIA into Web content (C). Andy
Brown, Simon Harper.

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:10 Session 5: Web accessibility and Dyslexia

Chair: Clayton Lewis

★ Best paper award Simplify or Help? Text Simplification Strategies for People with
Dyslexia (T). Luz Rello, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Stefan Bott,
Horacio Saggion.
Firefixia: An Accessibility Web Browser Customization Toolbar
for People With Dyslexia (C). Vagner Figueredo de Santana,
Rosimeire de Oliveira, Leonelo Dell Anhol Almeida, Marcia
Ito.
Size Matters (Spacing not): 18 Points for a
Dyslexic-friendly Wikipedia (T). Luz Rello, Martin Pielot,
Mari-Carmen Marcos, Roberto Carlini.

19:30 Dinner and “William Loughborough” After Dinner Speech:
Pushing the Raman Principle. Clayton Lewis.

Dinner will take place at the Fratelli restaurant (map ), an accessible location just outside the conference hotel.

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

9:00 – 10:00 Keynote: The False Dichotomy between Accessibility and
Usability. Ed H. Chi.

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00 Session 6: The Paciello Group Accessibility
Challenge

Chair: Greg Gay

★ Delegates Award. Dyslexia Exercises on my Tablet are more Fun. Luz Rello,
Clara Bayarri, Azuki Gòrriz. (see the dyslexia exercise video)
Smarter Board: A community-oriented communication
tool. Mateus Molinaro, Sergio Borger, Carlos Cardonha, Diego
Gallo, Ricardo Herrmann, Ademir Ferreira, Fernando Koch, Priscilla
Avegliano, Kelly Shigeno. (See the smarter board video)
★ Judges Award. Legion Scribe: Real-Time Captioning by the Non-Experts.
Walter S. Lasecki, Christopher Miller, Raja Kushalnagar, Jeffrey
P. Bigham.(See the legion scribe video)
A Mobile Interactive Maps Application for a Visually Impaired
Audience. Nikolaos Kaklanis, Konstantinos Votis, Dimitrios
Tzovaras.(See the mobile accessible maps video)
Citizen Sensing for Collaborative Construction of Accessibility
Maps.Kelly Shigeno, Sergio Borger, Diego Gallo, Ricardo
Herrmann, Mateus Molinaro, Carlos Cardonha, Fernando Koch, Priscilla
Avegliano.(See the collaborative maps video)
DysWebxia 2.0! More Accessible Text for People with
Dyslexia.Luz Rello, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Horacio Saggion, Stefan
Bott, Roberto Carlini, Clara Bayarri, Azuki Gòrriz, Saurabh Gupta,
Gaurang Kanvinde, Vasile Topac. (See the Dyswebxia video)

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Session 7: Crowdsourcing for accessibility

Chair: Simon Harper

★ Best communication award A Crowdsourcing Platform for the Construction of Accessibility
Maps (C). Carlos Cardonha, Diego Gallo, Priscilla Avegliano,
Ricardo Herrmann, Fernando Koch, Sergio Borger.
How Cloud Computing Can Support Assistive On-Demand Services
(C). Davide Mulfari, Antonio Celesti, Massimo Villari, Antonio
Puliafito.
Crowdsourcing Platform for Workplace Accessibility (C). Hironobu Takagi, Akihiro Kosugi, Shin Saito, Masayoshi Teraguchi.
The Conversational Internet: creating a natural language interface for web pages (C). Niki Gomez and Dale Lane.

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:30 Session 8: Content Adaptation

Chair: Markel Vigo

User Individuality Management in Websites based on WAI-ARIA Annotations and Ontologies (T). Xabier Valencia, Myriam Arrue, J. Eduardo Pérez, Julio Abascal.
Experiential Transcoding: An EyeTracking Approach (C). Yeliz Yesilada;Simon Harper;Sukru Eraslan.
Towards the usage of pauses in audio-described videos (C). Benoît Encelle, Magali Ollagnier Beldame, Yannick Prié.
Captions Versus Transcripts for Online Video Content (C). Raja Kushalnagar, Walter Lasecki, Jeffrey P. Bigham.
Adapting data table to improve web accessibility (C). Pauli P.Y. Lai.