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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. |