We
invite you to participate in the W4A2016 conference! Please see
the details below.
The
13th International Web for All Cross-Disciplinary Conference on
Web Accessibility
W4A
2016 (#w4a2016), co-located with the 25th International World
Wide Web Conference
WWW2016,
will take place in Montreal, Canada on 11-13 April 2016.
CONFERENCE
THEME
Education
for All on the Web
FULL
PROGRAM
Full
Program available at:
http://www.w4a.info/2016/program/
REGISTRATION,
FEES AND ACCOMMODATION
Registration:
http://www2016.ca/registration.html
Fees:
$565.00CAD (US$425) (regular) and $ 375.00CAD (US$280)
(students)
Accommodation:
http://www2016.ca/plan-your-trip/hotel-reservation.html
KEYNOTES
http://www.w4a.info/2016/keynotes/
-
Jutta Treviranus (Director and professor at the Inclusive Design
Research Centre, OCAD University, Canada) on “Life-Long Learning
on the Inclusive Web”
-
William Loughborough After-Dinner Talk delivered by Jennison
Asuncion (co-founder Global Accessibility Awareness Day): “On
Digital Accessibility: Where do we need to go from here?”
PROGRAM
(at a glance)
MONDAY,
April 11 - for more info see:
http://www.w4a.info/2016/program/
8:00
- 9:00 Registration
9:00
- 9:15 Opening
9:15
- 10:30 Keynote
10:30
- 11:00 Coffee
11:00
- 11:40 Session 2 - IBM Persons with Disabilities Awards
11:40
- 12:30 Session 3 - Accessibility Challenges
12:30
- 14:00 Lunch
14:00
- 14:30 Session 4: Web Accessibility
14:30
- 15:30 Session 5: Web Accessibility Challenge Presentations
15:30
- 16:00 Coffee
16:00
- 17:30 Session 6: Web Accessibility Challenge Demonstrations
& Voting
TUESDAY
April 12
8:45
- 9:00 Opening
9:00
- 10:00 Session 7: Non-Visual Access & Web Accessibility
10:00
- 10:30 Session 8: Doctoral Consortium Student Presentations
10:30
- 11:00 Coffee
11:00
- 12:30 Session 9: Accessible Learning, Web-based Testing and
Assessment
12:30
- 14:00 Lunch
14:00
- 14:30 Session 10: Supporting Accessibility and Wearables
14:30
- 15:00 Session 11: Doctoral Consortium Student Presentations
15:30
- 16:00 Coffee
16:00
- 17:30 Session 12: Accessible
Multimedia
17:15
- 17:30 Awards & Closing
17:30
- 19:00 Break
19:00
- 22:00 W4A Dinner & The William Loughborough After Dinner
Talk
WEDNESDAY,
April 13
9:00
- 10:30 WWW 2016 Keynote Address with Tim Berners-Lee
10:30
- 10:45 Shuttle, or walk to Google Montreal
11:00
- 18:00 WWW/W4A Accessibility Hackathon - details at:
http://www.w4a.info/2016/wwww4a-hackathon/
18:00
- 18:15 Shuttle return to conference venue
Or
11:00
- 17:00 W4A CAMP (alternate to the hackathon, if there’s
interest)
SPONSORS
& SUPPORTERS
This
year W4A is endorsed by the IW3C2 in cooperation with the ACM
and its Special Interest Groups SIGACCESS, SIGCHI and SIGWEB.
The general conference is supported by Google, IBM, Intuit, and
Canvas; the Web Accessibility Challenge is sponsored by The
Paciello Group, and the Student Awards are sponsored by Google,
Intuit, and Canvas. Support has also been provided by
CaptiVoice.com, Ability Magazine, OpenConf, and ATutorSpaces.