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From: giorgio brajnik
Date: Apr 19, 2013 8:21AM

Apologies for cross-posting.

========================= Call for Participation =======================

The 10th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

W4A 2013 (#w4a13)

Co-located with the 23th International World Wide Web Conference,
WWW2013
13-15th May 2013 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.



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Full Programme available at http://www.w4a.info/2013/preliminary-programme

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Registration, Fees and Accommodation
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http://www.w4a.info/2013/accomodation/
Fees: 600US$ (late registration) and 250$ (students)
Accommodation: http://www2013.org/attendees/accomodation/

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Keynotes - http://www.w4a.info/2013/keynotes
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- Keynote by Dr. Ed H. Chi (Google Inc. ): The False Dichotomy between
Accessibility and Usability, Tuesday 14
- William Loughborough After-Dinner Speech by Dr. Clayton Lewis (Nat.
Inst. on Disability and Rehab Research): Pushing the Raman Principle,
Monday 13

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Monday, May 13th - more info in
http://www.w4a.info/2013/preliminary-programme/#monday
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8:00-8:45 Registration
8:45-9:00 Opening
9:00-10:00 Session 1: Guidelines and Accessibility Guidelines
10:30-12:00 Session 2: Universal access, multimodal and mobile interaction
13:30-14:10 Session 3: Google Student Awards and W4A 2012 Camp Report
15:00-16:30 Session 4: ARIA
17:00-18:10 Session 5: Web accessibility and Dyslexia
19:30 Dinner and "William Loughborough" After Dinner Speech: Pushing the
Raman Principle. Clayton Lewis.

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Tuesday, May 14th - more info in
http://www.w4a.info/2013/preliminary-programme/#tuesday
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09:30-10:30 Keynote by Ed H. Chi
11:00-12:30 Session 4: Designing Web Accessibility
14:00-15:40 Session 5: Dyslexia and Sign Language on the Web
16:00-17:10 Session 6: Innovative Accessibility Techniques and Studies
17:10-17:30 Awards and Closing
17:30 onwards, unofficial social event

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Crazy Wednesday, May 15th
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Full day: W4A Camp

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Endorsement & Sponsors
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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 Microsoft, Google and the Zakon Group; the
Web Accessibility Challenge is sponsored by Microsoft and the Student
Awards are sponsored by Google.

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W4A stats
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As of April 2013 average downloads per article at the ACM Digital
Library is 434 and average citations per article is 3.71.
To see the stats check the ACM Digital Library site for the W4A
conference at http://portal.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE143

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W4A on the Web
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Main site: http://www.w4a.info
RSS/ATOM News Feed: http://www.w4a.info/updates.xml
Blog: http://www.w4a.info/2013/blog
Lanyard: http://lanyrd.com/2013/w4a13/


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Università di Udine | fax: +39 (0432) 55.8499
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