Program

W4A Conference is located in the George W. Gau Amphıtheater

9:00 – 9:30 Conference Opening

9:30 – 10:30 Session 1: Keynote 1

Bill Curtis-Davidson – From Talk to Transformation: Building a More Inclusive Metaverse

10:30 – 11:00 Morning Break

11:00 – 12:15 Session 2: Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Chair: Christian Vogler

(11:00) Who is speaking: Unpacking In-text Speaker Identification Preference of Viewers who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing while Watching Live Captioned Television Program — Akhter Al Amin, Joseph Mendis, Raja Kushalnagar, Christian Vogler and Matt Huenerfauth🎖 Best Technical Paper Candidate
(11:20) Understanding How Deaf and Hard of Hearing Viewers Visually Explore Captioned Live TV News — Akhter Al Amin, Saad Hassan, Sooyeon Lee and Matt Huenerfauth
(11:40) The State of Accessibility in Blackboard: Survey and User Reviews Case Study — Wajdi Aljedaani, Mohammed Alkahtani, Stephanie Ludi, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marcelo M. Eler, Marouane Kessentini and Ali Ouni
(12:00) Modeling Word Importance in Conversational Transcripts: Toward Improved Live Captioning for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Viewers — Akhter Al Amin, Saad Hassan, Matt Huenerfauth and Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Session 3: Accessibility Challenge

Chair: Mike Paciello & Sukru Eraslan

(13:30) Amaze3D: Making 3D Worlds Accessible to Blind Gamers — Greg Gay, Matthew Ralston
(13:40) UnlockedMaps: A Web-Based Map for Visualizing the Real-Time Accessibility of Urban Rail Transit Stations — Ather Sharif, Aneesha Ramesh, Qianqian Yu, Trung-Anh H. Nguyen and Xuhai Xu
(13:50) Understanding and Improving Drilled-Down Information Extraction from Online Data Visualizations for Screen-Reader Users — Ather Sharif, Andrew M. Zhang, Katharina Reinecke and Jacob O. Wobbrock
(14:00) OPTIMAL-EM: Optimised Population Sourcing for Web Accessibility Evaluation — Alexander Hambley, Yeliz Yesilada, Markel Vigo, Simon Harper
(14:10) AutoChemplete – Making Chemical Structural Formulas Accessible — Merlin Knaeble, Gabriel Sailer, Zihan Chen,Thorsten Schwarz, Kailun Yang, Mario Nadj, Rainer Stiefelhagen and Alexander Maedche
(14:20) Authoring Web-accessible Mathematical Diagrams — David Austin and Volker Sorge
(14:30) Demo madness

15:00 – 15:30 Afternoon Break

15:30 – 16:40 Session 4: Usability

Chair: Abigale Stangl

(15:30) AutoChemplete – Making Chemical Structural Formulas Accessible — Merlin Knaeble, Gabriel Sailer, Zihan Chen, Thorsten Schwarz, Kailun Yang, Mario Nadj, Rainer Stiefelhagen and Alexander Maedche
(15:50) Authoring Web-accessible Mathematical Diagrams — David Austin and Volker Sorge🎖 Best Communication Paper Candidate
(16:05) Accessibility Metatesting: Comparing Nine Testing Tools — Jonathan Pool
(16:20) A Platform to Check Website Compliance with Web Accessibility Standards — Reinaldo Ferraz , Ana Duarte, João Bárbara, Adriano Pereira and Wagner Meira

18:30 W4A Conference Dinner

Location: Clay Pit Contemporary Indian Cuisine, https://www.claypit.com/
- Google Map Link to the Location: https://goo.gl/maps/T9Vt6zn55Ts269AU6
- Address: 1601 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78701
After Dinner Keynote by Sharron Rush – Is the Emperor of the Inclusive Metaverse Wearing Any Clothes?

9:30 – 10:30 Session 5: Accessible Travel

Chair: Pegah Kamiri

(9:30) UnlockedMaps: A Web-Based Map for Visualizing the Real-Time Accessibility of Urban Rail Transit Stations — Ather Sharif, Aneesha Ramesh, Qianqian Yu, Trung-Anh H. Nguyen and Xuhai Xu
(9:50) Case Study: In-the-Field Accessibility Information Collection Using Gamification — Akihiro Miyata, Kazuki Okugawa, Yusaku Murayama, Akihiro Furuta, Keihiro Ochiai and Yuko Murayama
(10:10) Bring Environments to People – A Case Study of Virtual Tours in Accessibility Assessment for People with Limited Mobility — Hao-Yun Chi, Jingzhen Sha and Yang Zhang

10:30 – 11:00 Morning Coffee

11:00 – 12:35 Session 6: Accessibility in Context

Chair: Akihiro Miyata

(11:00) Understanding and Improving Drilled-Down Information Extraction from Online Data Visualizations for Screen-Reader Users — Ather Sharif, Andrew Mingwei Zhang, Katharina Reinecke and Jacob O. Wobbrock🎖 Best Technical Paper Candidate

(11:20) “I stepped into a puddle”: Non-Visual Texting in Nomadic Contexts — Pegah Karimi, Erin Brady, Aqueasha Martin-Hammond and Davide Bolchini
(11:40) Ability + Motivation: Understanding Factors that Influence People with Cognitive Disabilities in Regularly Practicing Daily Activities — Varsha Koushik and Shaun Kane 🎖 Best Technical Paper Candidate
(12:00) Blind People’s Expectations for Visual Privacy in Visual Assistance Technologies — Abigale Stangl, Emma Sadjo, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Yang Wang, Danna Gurari and Leah Findlater
(12:20) Cognitive Accessibility of Digital Payments: A Literature Review — Jiamin Dai, John Miedema, Sebastian Hernandez, Alexandra Sutton-Lalani and Karyn Moffatt 🎖 Best Communication Paper Candidate

12:35 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:00 Session 7: Doctoral Consortium

Chair: Maria Rauschenberger & Shaomei Wu

(14:00) Towards Optimised Population Sourcing for Web Accessibility Evaluation — Alexander Hambley
(14:15) On the independent and sustainable mobility of people with visual impairments — Gabriele Galimberti
(14:30) A More Accessible Web with Natural Language Interface — Xiang Deng
(14:45) Translating color, Sonification as Method of Sensory Substitution within the Museum — Silvia Dini, Luca A. Ludovico, Maria Joaquina Valero Gisbert, Sergio Mascetti

15:00 – 15:30 Afternoon Break

15:30 – 16:30 Session 8: Closing Session

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