W4A 2012

Recorded sessions, pointers to ACM DL and slides

Keynotes

• Main keynote [video]. Increasing Access to the Web of “Broad Data”. James Hendler.
• William Loughborough after-dinner keynote [video]. Usability, Demographics, and Directions for W4A. Alan Newell.

Session 1: Accessible Web 2.0 [video]

• Developing A Semantic User And Device Modeling Framework That Supports UI Adaptability Of Web 2.0 Applications For People With Special Needs (C). Philip Ackermann, Carlos A. Velasco, Christopher Power, Yehya Mohamad, Jaroslav Pullmann. View slides.
• Evaluating The Accessibility Of Rich Internet Applications (C). Nádia Fernandes, Daniel Costa, Sérgio Neves, Carlos Duarte, Luís Carriço. View slides.
• Towards Ubiquitous Accessibility: Capability-based Profiles And Adaptations, Delivered Via The Semantic Web (C). Matthew Atkinson, Matthew Bell, Colin Machin. View slides.

Session 2: Evaluating Accessibility [video]

• Using Acceptance Tests To Validate Accessibility Requirements In RIA (T). Willian Massami Watanabe, Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes, Ana Luiza Dias. View slides.
• Getting One Voice: Tuning Up Experts’ Assessment In Measuring Accessibility (C). Silvia Mirri, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Paola Salomoni, Matteo Battistelli. View slides.
• Guidelines, Icons And Marketable Skills: An Accessibility Evaluation Of 100 Web Development Company Homepages (C). Teresa Gilbertson, Colin Machin. View slides.
• A Macroscopic Web Accessibility Evaluation At Different Processing Phases (C). Nádia Fernandes, Luis Carriço. View slides.

Session 3: Novel Views on Web Accessibility [video]

• Understanding Web Accessibility And Its Drivers (T). Yeliz Yesilada, Giorgio Brajnik, Markel Vigo, Simon Harper. View slides.
• A Challenge To Web Accessibility Metrics And Guidelines: Putting People And Processes First (C). Martyn Cooper, David Sloan, Brian Kelly, Sarah Lewthwaite. View slides.
• Certification Or Conformance: Making A Successful Commitment To Wcag 2.0 (C). Suzette Keith, Nikolaos Floratos, Gill Whitney. View slides.
• Alipi: A framework for re-narrating web pages (C). T B Dinesh, Suzan Uskudarli, Subramanya Sastry, Deepti Aggarwal, Venkatesh Choppella. View slides.

Session 4: Designing Web Accessibility [video]

• Methodology For Identifying And Solving Accessibility Related Issues In Web Content Management System Environments (T). Juan Miguel López, Afra Pascual, Cristina Menduiña, Toni Granollers. View slides.
• Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of A Tool To Support Novice Auditors (T). Christopher Bailey, Elaine Pearson. View slides.
• MIPAW – Modele Of A Progressive Implementation Of Web Accessibility (C). Jean-Pierre Villain, Olivier Nourry. View slides.

Session 5: Dyslexia and Sign Language on the Web [video]

• Web Accessibility And People With Dyslexia: A Survey On Techniques And Guidelines (T). Vagner Figueredo de Santana, Rosimeire de Oliveira, Leonelo Dell Anhol Almeida, Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas. View slides.
• Layout Guidelines for Web Text and a Web Service to Improve Accessibility for Dyslexics (T). Luz Rello; Gaurang Kanvinde; Ricardo Baeza-Yates. View slides.
• ★ Best communication award. Mobile Sign Language Translation System For Deaf Community (C). Mehrez Boulares, Mohamed Jemni. View slides.
• Web-content’s Syndication In Sign Language (C). Oussama El Ghoul, Nour Ben Yahia, Mohamed Jemni. View slides.

Session 6: Innovative Accessibility Techniques and Studies [video]

• ★ Best paper award. Why Read If You Can Skim: Towards Enabling Faster Screen Reading (T). Faisal Ahmed, Yevgen Borodin, Yury Puzis, I.V. Ramakrishnan. View slides.
• Enhancing Learning Accessibility Through Fully Automatic Captioning (C). Maria Federico, Marco Furini. View slides.
• An Intuitive Accessible Web Automation User Interface (C). Yury Puzis, Yevgen Borodin, Faisal Ahmed, I.V. Ramakrishnan. View slides.

Microsoft Accessibility Challenge [video]

• AMAri: a reporting interface for accessibility evaluations. Silvia Mirri, Matteo Casadei, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Paola Salomoni, Matteo Battistelli. See the demo of AMAri. | View slides.
• Universal and Ubiquitous Web Access with Capti. Yevgen Borodin, Andrii Sovyak, Alexander Dimitriyadi, Yury Puzis, Valentyn Melnyk, Faisal Ahmed, Glenn Dausch, I.V. Ramakrishnan. View slides.
• ☆ Judges Award. ABCD SW: Autistic Behavior & Computer-based Didactic Software. M. Claudia Buzzi, Marina Buzzi, Davide Gazzé, Caterina Senette, Maurizio Tesconi. See the demo of ABCD SW. | View slides.
• ☆ Delegates award. Alipi – tools for a Re-narration Web. T B Dinesh, Venkatesh Choppella. See the demo featuring Alipi.

Google Student Award [video]

• Doing Math: Mathematics Accessibility Issues. Nancy Alajarmeh.
• Accessible 3D signing avatars: the Tunisian experience. Kabil Jaballah. View slides.

Awards and closing [video]

W4A/WWW panel [video]