W4A 2011 - 8th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

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Category W4A 2011

Deadline: November 22, 2010 | Date: March 28, 2011-March 29, 2011

Venue/Country: Hyderabad, India

Updated: 2010-08-18 23:45:11 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Co-Located with the Twentieth International World Wide Web Conference, in Hyderabad, India.

Cloud-computing is the technological paradigm where computing resources are distributed over the Internet. This way, the browser becomes the interface to access services and applications with almost unlimited storage capacity and processing power. Cloud-computing and the applications deployed over it facilitate collective intelligence and crowdsourcing phenomena, where millions of users can contribute to a common goal. Following these approaches, a number of successful projects that focus on web accessibility have been released in recent years. These developments range from platforms to collectively removing accessibility barriers to making assistive technologies widespread and available for all. These preliminary approaches such as online screen-readers and accessibility repairing applications have yielded promising results towards an inclusive web by removing both economical and accessibility barriers. In order to develop the cloud to its full potential as far as accessibility is concerned, there are still several research questions that should address the weak points and challenges in a timely manner in order to create an inclusive Web.

Will crowdsourcing the cloud lead us to an inclusive Web by all and for all? Will crowdsourcing the cloud remove accessibility barriers for all? Will crowdsourcing the cloud make the Web accessible or inaccessible?

From this point of view, W4A 2011 is interested in the following topics in particular (but not exclusively!):

Cloud computing based assistive technologies

Deployment, acceptance and scalability issues of cloud computing accessibility tools

Tools for collaborative accessibility testing

Tools to collectively repair accessibility problems

Empirical studies and data analysis of crowdsourcing for accessibility

Cooperative authoring tools

Quality assurance of crowdsourcing generated content

Methodologies for crowdsourcing procedures for accessibility

Web authoring guidelines and tools

Mobile accessibility

User modeling and the adaptive web

Adaptation and transformation of existing Web content

Design and best practice to support Web accessibility

Technological advances to support Web accessibility

End user tools

Accessibility guidelines, best practice, evaluation techniques, and tools

Psychology of end user experiences and scenarios

Innovative techniques to support accessibility

Universally accessible graphical design approaches

Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation