The Information Management Group
The Information Management Group (IMG) conducts research into the design, development and use of data and knowledge management systems. Such research activities are broad in nature as well as scope, including basic research on models and languages that underpins activities on algorithms, technologies and architectures. Challenging applications motivate and validate our research, in particular the Semantic Web and e-Science.
W4A 2006 - Final Call for PapersSimon Harper, Yeliz Yesilada, and Carole Goble are organising the Third International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A 2006) with the theme 'Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering Accessibility?' the workshop is located at the Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006) on May 22, 2006, in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.Submissions are due on Monday 20th March 2006 Keynotes ----------------------- * Sarah Horton is an instructional technology specialist at Dartmouth College and is the author of 'Access by design: A guide to universal usability for Web designers'. * Aaron Leventhal is an IBM Web accessibility architect and is the leader of the Mozilla Accessibility Project. * Dr. Rhys Lewis is Chief Scientist for Volantis Systems Ltd. and is the chair of the Device Independence Working Group (DIWG) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). * Donna Smillie is a senior Web accessibility consultant at the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB), UK. Publications ----------------------- * The workshop proceedings will be published as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be available at the ACM Digital Library. * Selected papers will be invited to submit a revised version for consideration for a special issue of the Springer Journal - Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS). These papers will go through an additional reviewing process to ensure quality. Topics and Content --------------------- We invite submissions for W4A 2004 addressing our current theme of 'Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering Accessibility?'. After the launch of the Mobile Web Initiative at the World Wide Web Conference 2005 we are beginning to realise that, today, mobile Web access suffers from interoperability and usability problems that make the Web difficult to use. With the move to small screen size, low bandwidth, and different operating modalities, technology is in effect simulating the sensory and cognitive impairments experienced by disabled users within the wider population of mobile device users. In this our 3rd Workshop we ask the question: 'Is engineering, designing, and building for the mobile Web just a rehash of the same old Web accessibility problems?' We wish to bring together different communities working on similar problems to share ideas, discuss overlaps, and make the fledging mobile Web community aware of accessibility work that may have been overlooked. We ask is designing for accessibility and small screened devices really the same thing requiring the same solutions and can we work together to solve these problems? What can the Mobile Web learn from the Accessible Web and what resources created to support the Accessible Web can be used by designers in their support of the Mobile Web. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): * Advances in Mobile Web technologies; * Design and best practice to support the Mobile Web and accessibility: * Technological advances to support web accessibility; * End user tools; * Accessibility and Mobile Web guidelines, best practice, evaluation techniques, and tools; * Psychology of end user experiences and scenarios; * Innovative techniques to support accessibility; * Universally accessible graphical design approaches; * Design Perspectives; * Adapting existing web content; * Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation. ------------------------------- chairs at w4a.info |