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WelcomeW4A 2008

5th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

21/22 April 2008 - Beijing, China

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Your W4A PackYour W4A Pack

* Should Include:Proceedings BookletCDChallenge Evaluation Form

Fill in by end of Last Coffee Break on Tuesday

Various Flyers

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FREE FREE MEMBERSHIPSMEMBERSHIPS

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SponsorshipSponsorship

* Thanks to our sponsors & supporters:

•Microsoft

- Web Accessibility Challenge Sponsored by Microsoft for five years!

•Google

•Zakon Group

•Mozilla foundation

•Daisy Consortium

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AwardsAwards

* Best Paper Award - technical paper

* John M Slatin Award - communication paper

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Special IssueSpecial Issue

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Chair: Leo Ferres (specissue-2008@w4a.info)

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Social EventSocial Event

* Our Monday night social will be 18:00-20:00 at the Lijiang Hall, Beijing Continental Grand Hotel (BCGH).

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Keynotes Keynotes

Shadi Abou-ZahraTV Raman

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ThemeTheme

* What happens when surfers become authors?

• Web author numbers are increasing; but this dilutes the technical capability of web authors - what does this mean for accessibility?

• How well do web authoring tools and user agents (including AT) support accessible authoring?

• And how accessible are these web authoring tools - whether available publicly as part of the Social Web or as corporate business tools?

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SubmissionsSubmissions

* 12 accepted for Technical papers (acceptance rate 36%)

• 7 Communication papers,

• 4 Web Accessibility Challenge submissions

* Geographically diverse, covering 5 continents:

• AUS, BRA, CAN, ESP, GBR, GER, GRE, ITA, POR, THA, TPE, UGA, USA

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ProcessProcess

* Each submission peer-reviewed by 3 reviewers

* We used the rebuttal process for the first time to enable responses to reviews

* Author rebuttals were influential in making final selections

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Interactive DataInteractive Data

* Comments - Critique -

•gc-2008@w4a.info

* Slides - http://www.slideshare.net/event/w4a2008

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Let’s Get Started!Let’s Get Started!

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* Next Year:

•Please check our Website: http://www.w4a.info/

* DAISY files - ACM DL!!

* ACM SIGACCESS Membership!!

* ASSETS 2008 (SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility)

•http://www.sigaccess.org/assets08/

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