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.