Web4All 2021

Conference Program

The 18th Web4All 2021 conference schedule includes two full days of presentations from around the globe. Please note, the program times use the time zone for Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Last update: April 14, 2021

Monday April 19, 2021

• 9:00 – 9:30 Conference Opening
• 9:30 – 10:25 Session 1: Visual Impairments – Session Chairs: Yeliz Yesilada and Simon Harper
  • (9:30) MusA: Artwork Accessibility through Augmented Reality for People with Low Vision – Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, Kristian Keller and Sergio Mascetti
  • (9:50) AccessComics: An Accessible Digital Comic Book Reader for People with Visual Impairments – Yunjung Lee, Hwayeon Joh, Suhyeon Yoo and Uran Oh
  • (10:05) Multi-touch Exploration and Sonification of Line Segments – Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, Sergio Mascetti and Federico Pini
• 10:25 – 11:00 Break
• 11:00 – 12:00 Keynote
  • Jeremy Johnstone – Crisis and Technology
• 12:00 – 13:30 Meal Break
• 13:30 – 15:00 Session 2: Accessibility Challenge – Session Chairs: Maria Rauschenberger and Yu Zhong
  • (13:30) Teaching Accessibility Awareness with Games – Greg Gay
  • (13:50) Accessibility Challenges in Lab Simulations – Matthew Ralston and Greg Gay
  • (14:10) Demo Madness
• 15:00 – 16:35 Session 3: Online Accessibility & Emergency – Session Chairs: Konstantinos Votis and Volker Sorge
  • (15:00) Distance Meetings During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Are Video Conferencing Tools Accessible for Blind People? – Barbara Leporini, Marina Buzzi and Marion Hersh
  • (15:20) Online Learning Accessibility during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Shanna Russ and Foad Hamidi
  • (15:40) Making the Elusive More Tangible: Remote tools & techniques for teaching web development to screen reader users – Claire Kearney-Volpe, Chancey Fleet, Keita Ohshiro, Veronica Alfaro Arias and Amy Hurst
  • (16:00) The Transparency of Automatic Accessibility Evaluation Tools – Parvaneh Parvin, Vanessa Palumbo, Marco Manca and Fabio Paternò
  • (16:15) COVID-19 Highlights the Issues Facing Blind and Visually Impaired People in Accessing Data on the Web – Alexa F. Siu, Danyang Fan, Gene S-H Kim, Hrishikesh V. Rao, Xavier Vazquez, Sile O’Modhrain and Sean Follmer (🎖 Best Technical Paper Nominee)
    

• 16:35 – 17:10 Break
• 17:10 – 18:10 Keynote – William Loughborough Memorial Address
  • Mike Paciello – The Gift and Undying Legacy of Web Accessibility

Tuesday April 20, 2021

• 9:00 – 10:10 Session 4: Visual Impairments – Session Chair: Carlos Duarte
  • (9:00) Improving Mealtime Experiences of People with Visual Impairments – SeungA Chung, Soobin Park, Sohyeon Park, Kyungyeon Lee and Uran Oh (🎖 Best Technical Paper Nominee)
    
  • (9:20) LaTeX as an Inclusive Accessibility Instrument for Highschool Mathematical Education – Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, Marco Bracco, Nadir Murru, Tiziana Armano and Anna Capietto
  • (9:40) Enhancing Video Communication Experience for Low Vision Users – Andreas Sackl, Raimund Schatz, Bruno Gardlo and Manfred Tscheligi (🎖 Best Communication Paper Nominee)
  • (9:55) WordMelodies: an Inclusive Mobile App Supporting the Acquisition of Literacy Skills – Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, Irene Mantegazza and Sergio Mascetti
• 10:10 – 10:45 Session 5: A Word from our Sponsors – Session Chairs: Silvia Rodríguez Vázquez and Ted Drake
• 10:45 – 11:15 Break
• 11:15 – 12:15 Keynote
  • Ellie Kemp – LOUD AND CLEAR: The missing links of language and language technology for humanitarian access, impact, and accountability
• 12:15 – 13:45 Meal Break
• 13:45 – 15:00 Session 6: Cognitive assistance – Session Chairs: Sile O’Modhrain and Uran Oh
  • (13:45) Implementing an accessible Conversational User Interface applying feedback from University students and disability support advisors – Francisco Iniesto, Tim Coughlan and Kate Lister (🎖 Best Communication Paper Nominee)
  • (14:00) Cognitive Function vs. Accessible Authentication: Insights from Dyslexia Research – Jacques Ophoff, Graham Johnson and Karen Renaud (🎖 Best Communication Paper Nominee)
  • (14:15) Scribe: Improving Older Adults’ Access to Medical Instructions from Patient-Physician Conversations – Pegah Karimi,Parishmita Bora and Aqueasha Martin-Hammond
  • (14:35) When Can Accessibility Help?: An Exploration of Accessibility Feature Recommendation on Mobile Devices – Jason Wu, Gabriel Reyes, Sam C. White, Xiaoyi Zhang and Jeffrey P. Bigham (🎖 Best Technical Paper Nominee)
• 14:55 – 15:45 Session 7: Doctoral Consortium and Google Student Scholarships – Presentation Session – Session Chairs: Dónal Fitzpatrick and Shaomei Wu
  • (14:55) Brief report about the Doctoral Consortium by DC Chairs
  • (15:00) Toward a User Experience Tool Selector for Voice User Interfaces – Andreas M. Klein
  • (15:15) Exploring Information Systems for the Workplace Accommodation Process – Shiya Cao
  • (15:30) Presentations by Google Student Scholarship Recipients & closing Q&A
    • A low-cost commercial handheld wireless EEG signal tracking software to measure the attention of students during online classes – Sricheta Parui, IIT Kharagpur
    • Autism Detection Using Machine Learning and Web-Based Eye-Tracking Data – Erfan Khalaji, Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus
• 15:45 – 16:15 Break
• 16:15 – 17:30 Session 8: Deaf and Hard of Hearing – Session Chair: Jeffrey Bigham
  • (16:15) Understanding Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users’ Interest in Sign-Language Interaction with Personal-Assistant Devices – Abraham Glasser, Vaishnavi Mande and Matt Huenerfauth
  • (16:35) Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users’ Preferences for Hearing Speakers’ Behavior during Technology-Mediated In-Person and Remote Conversations – Matthew Seita, Sarah Andrew and Matt Huenerfauth
  • (16:55) Caption-Occlusion Severity Judgments across Live-Television Genres from Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers – Akhter Al Amin, Saad Hassan and Matt Huenerfauth
  • (17:15) Effect of Caption Width on the TV User Experience by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Viewers – Abraham Glasser, Joseline Garcia, Chang Hwang, Christian Vogler and Raja Kushalnagar
• 17:30 – 18:00 Awards and Closing