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From: Greg Gay
Date: Mar 22, 2016 4:03PM

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.