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We have been asked to circulate the following:<br><br>
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We welcome you to submit your best work on improving accessibility of the
Web, Mobiles, and Wearables for people with and without disabilities to
the International Web for All Conference (W4A’15), conveniently
co-located with WWW’15 and MobiSys’15.<br><br>
W4A15
(<a href="https://mail.mbgsd.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=1cfea17f14fd496cb64c73fa184a7a4a&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.w4a.info">
www.w4a.info</a>) will take place in Florence, Italy (May 18-20):<br>
- Intuit will award $2,000 and $1,000 to the best technical and
communication papers<br>
- The Paciello Group will award the winners of the Accessibility
Challenge<br>
- ABILITY Magazine will highlight the winners of awards in a special
editorial<br>
- IBM will provide travel grants to both grad and undergrad students with
disabilities<br>
- Google will sponsor 6 PhD students to participate in the Doctoral
Student Consortium <br>
- Submission deadlines: Jan 23rd, Notifications: March 4th<br><br>
As you know, devices are getting smaller, and more of them are now
wearable: smart glasses, smart watches, and smart clothing are all
working their way into our lives and onto our bodies. These devices are
online, web-accessible, and increasingly interconnected. As with many
technologies that have come before, wearable devices present incredible
opportunities for improving accessibility for people with and without
disabilities, but also present accessibility challenges in ensuring that
people are able to equally benefit from them regardless of disability,
context or situation. Acknowledging the importance of this topic, the
theme of the 12th International Web for All Conference is “The Wearable
Web”.<br><br>
Don't be deterred by the theme; we invite your best work on improving and
understanding access for people across the accessibility continuum.
Papers are expected to detail technical solutions and scientific insights
into Web, Mobile, and Wearable technologies addressing diverse user
needs. Areas of interest include but are not limited to the following:
age, cognition, culture, education, emotions, dexterity, disability,
diversity, health, hearing, income, infrastructure, language, learning,
literacy, mobility, situation, society, and vision.<br><br>
The keynote speech on the "Sense and sensibility: smartphones and
wearable technologies to support seniors" will be delivered by
Lorenzo Chiari who is a Professor and the Vice-Director of the Health
Sciences and Technologies - Interdepartmental Center for Industrial
Research at the University of Bologna. On the close of the 1st day, join
us for the evening of wine, food, and live music wiith a Classical
performance by Lia Martirosyan.<br>
The William Laughborough” after-dinner talk "Riches Beyond
Measure: A New Frontier in Web Accessibility" will be given by Kevin
Carey, the Chair of the Royal National Institute of Blind People,
UK.<br><br>
Don't come just for W4A’15 stay for the entire week! W4A is
conveeniently co-located with WWW’15 and MobiSys’15 conferences.
MobiSys’15 is the top research conference dealing with all aspects of
mobile systems:
<a href="https://mail.mbgsd.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=1cfea17f14fd496cb64c73fa184a7a4a&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sigmobile.org%2fmobisys%2f2015%2fcfp.php">
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015/cfp.php</a>.<br>
And WWW’15
(<a href="https://mail.mbgsd.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=1cfea17f14fd496cb64c73fa184a7a4a&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.www2015.it%2f">
http://www.www2015.it/</a>) is the best and the biggest Web research
conference attended by famous Web researchers and practitioners, such as
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the Web). Among other events, we
will hold a joint WWW/W4A panel session devoted to the “Wearable Web”
theme.<br><br>
-- <br>
Carlton Anne Cook Walker<br>
Attorney at Law<br>
President, National Organization of Parents of Blind Children <br>
Teacher of Students with Blindness/Visual Impairment<br>
105 Creamery Road<br>
Boiling Springs, PA 17007<br>
Voice: 717-658-9894<br>
Twitter: braillemom<br><br>
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