Technical and Communication Papers
Technical papers should have a clear and well-defined technical/scientific contribution, preferably evaluated with the target population. Communication papers may include shorter and more focused contributions, such as work in progress, experience reports from researchers and practitioners, and late-breaking works. In the interest of reproducibility, authors are encouraged, where possible, to share their code and/or data as supplementary material accompanying their submission.
Both technical papers and communications should be in full paper format: maximum 10-pages (without references) for technical papers or maximum 4-pages (without references) for communication papers. This includes all figures and tables; over-length or incorrectly formatted submissions may be rejected without reviews. Authors should submit their papers in PDF format and include the corresponding source file(s) (Word or LaTeX, see Templates section).
Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which are accessible to the general public via the ACM Digital Library website. The official language of the Conference is English and accepted papers require at least one author to attend to present the work. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the program committee. Submissions MUST contain substantial original, unpublished material. Please refer to the ACM policy on plagiarism for guidance.
Papers will not be blinded – In this way, we encourage a degree of self-policing: submissions are not blinded, therefore submitting immature work, to be read by a program committee populated by the field’s top researchers, will tarnish your reputation.
Submission information
For templates and accessibility requirements, please refer to the Submissions page.
Please submit your paper (source file(s), paper in PDF format and supplementary materials, if any) via the OpenConf system.
Contact
If you have any questions relating to the submission process, please email pc2022@w4a.info.
TACCESS Special Issue
Continuing the tradition that started in 2021, papers accepted for publication at W4A’22 will be invited to submit an extended version for a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) journal.
The submission deadlines for TACCESS will be announced after the conference and all extended papers will be subject to peer review.