W4A 2008 a review David Sloan1, Yeliz Yesilada2 1University of Dundee, 2The University of Manchester The 5th annual International Cross-disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A for short) took place alongside WWW 2008 in Beijing, in April 2008. The conference venue was Beijing s International Convention Centre, next door to the Bird s Nest Olympic Stadium, and given the closeness of the conference - in location and timing - to the world s most famous sporting event, it was fitting that the conference theme looked at how accessibility can be addressed as Web user become more active, as content creators. Our theme was One World, One Web: Surfers become Designers? We were particularly interested in exploring the implications on Web accessibility of the increase in numbers of authors, and the resultant dilution in technical capability of web authors. How well do web authoring tools and user agents (including AT) support accessible authoring? And how accessible are these web authoring tools - whether available publicly as part of the Social Web or as corporate business. We accepted 12 papers, with an acceptance rate of 36%, 7 Communication papers, and 4 Web Accessibility Challenge submissions. Author representation was extremely
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W4A 2008: a review
Sloan, David; Yesilada, Yeliz
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Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 2008
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