John Slatin was a well known Web Accessibility expert. Friend and contributor to many in the accessibility world and the W3C, he passed away on Monday, March 24th 2008. We at the W4A worked with John on our Web Accessibility book, chapters of which he unfortunately did not have time to complete. With the blessing of his partner Anna Carroll, we at the W4A have decided to name the award for our best Communication paper in his honour, the inaugural year being 2008.
This years W4A is endorsed by the IW3C2 in cooperation with the ACM and its Special Interest Groups SIGWEB and SIGCHI. The general conference is supported by IBM Research, Microsoft, and Google, while the Web Accessibility Challenge is specifically sponsored by Microsoft, and the Student Awards are specifically sponsored by a Google.
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