The 15th Web for All Conference Lyon, France 2018

Sunday April 22, 2018 (pre-conference)

● W4A Google Doctoral Consortium (10:00 - 17:00)

Monday April 23, 2018

● Conference opening (8:45 - 9:00)

● Keynote (09:00 - 10:00)

○ Making “making” Accessible: Amy Hurst, Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

● Session 1: Internet of Things - 1 of 2 (10:00 - 10:30)

○ 10.00 - 10.15: How Context and User Behavior Affect Indoor Navigation Assistance for Blind People (Communication Paper); Joao Guerreiro, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Dragan Ahmetovic, Chris Kitanai, Chieko Asakawa,Carnegie Mellon University.

○ 10.15 - 10.30: Internet of Things (IoT) as Assistive Technology: Potential Applications in Tertiary Education (Communication Paper) ; Scott Hollier, Edith Cowan University; Shadi Abou-Zahra, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
● Morning Break (10.30 - 11.00)

● Session 2: Education (11:00 - 12:25)

○ 11.00 - 11.20: Parallel DOM Architecture for accessible interactive simulations (Technical Paper) Taliesin Smith, Jesse Greenberg, Sam Reid, Emily Moore, University of Colorado, Boulder.

○ 11.20 - 11.40: The accessibility of administrative processes: Assessing the impacts on students in higher education (Technical Paper); Tim Coughlan, Kate Lister, The Open University.

○ 11.40 - 11.55: Improving Usability of Math Editors (Communication Paper); Neil Soiffer, Talking Cat Software. (Best Communication Paper Nominee)

○ 12.05 - 12.20: On Accessibility Policies for Higher Education Institutions (Communication Paper); Giorgio Brajnik, Sanela Graca, University of Udine.

● Lunch Break (12.25 - 13.30)

● Session 3:IBM Award for Students with Disabilities (13:30 - 14:00)

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  Shantanu D. Ladkat, Savitribai Phule, University, Pune, India.
  
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  Davide Mulfari, University of Pisa, Italy.
  

● Session 4: Paciello Group Web Accessibility Challenge - Presentation Session (14.00- 15:00)

● Afternoon Break (15.00 - 15.30)

● Session 5: Paciello Group Web Accessibility Challenge - Demonstration Session (15.30 - 16:25)

● Session 6: W4A Google Doctoral Consortium - Presentation Session - 1 of 2 (16.30 - 17.00)

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  Davide Mulfari, University of Pisa, Italy – A TensorFlow-based Assistive Technology System for Users with Visual Impairments.
  
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  Claudia De Los Rios Perez, Curtin University Australia – Adaptable User Interfaces for People with Autism: A Transportation Example.
  

● Session 7: User Interface Design (17.00 - 17.35)

○ 17.00 - 17.20: Exploring the Role of Tunnel Vision Simulation in the Design Cycle of Accessible Interfaces (Technical Paper); Rie Kamikubo, Keita Higuchi, Ryo Yonetani, Yoichi Sato, University of Tokyo; Hideki Koike, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

○ 17.20 - 17.35: Application for the configuration and adaptation of the Android operating system for the visually impaired (Communication Paper); Brunoa De Oliveira, Juliana Braga, Rafael Damaceno, Federal University of ABC.

● W4A Conference Dinner (19.00)

○ The “William Loughborough” After Dinner Talk: 25 years at the coalface of accessibility: time flies when you are having fun!: Professor Helen Petrie, University of York.

Tuesday April 24, 2018

● Keynote (9.00 - 10.00)

○ “A Person Like Me: Virtual Peers as Interface and Education":Justine Cassell, Associate Dean of Technology Strategy and Impact, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.

● Session 8: Internet of Things - 2 of 2 (10.00 - 10:20)

○ 10.00 - 10.20: Home Automation for an Independent Living: Investigating Needs of the Visually Impaired People (Technical Paper); Barbara Leporini, Marina Buzzi, ISTI-CNR. (Best Technical Paper Nominee)
● Morning Break (10.20 - 11.00)

● Session 9: Learning Disabilities (11:00 - 12:30)

○ 11.00 - 11.20: Detecting Autism Based on Eye-Tracking Data from Web Searching Tasks (Technical Paper); Victoria Yaneva, Le An Ha, Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton; Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada, Middle East Technical University. (Best Technical Paper Nominee)

○ 11.20 - 11.40: Towards a Language Independent Detection of Dyslexia with a Web-Game (Technical Paper);Maria Rauschenberger, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Luz Rello, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Carnegie Mellon University.

○ 11.40 - 12.00: Computer Anxiety and Interaction: A Systematic Review (Technical Paper); Thiago Donizetti dos Santos, Federal University of ABC; Vagner Figueredo de Santana, IBM Research.

○ 12.00-12.15: Automatic Natural Language Generation Applied to Alternative and Augmentative Communication for Online Video Content Services using SimpleNLG for Spanish (Communication Paper); Silvia García-Méndez, Milagros Fernández-Gavilanes, Enrique Costa-Montenegro, Jonathan Juncal-Martínez, Francisco Javier González-Castaño, GTI Research Group, atlanTTic.

○ 12.15-12.30: Artificial Intelligence for Web Accessibility – Conformance Evaluation as a Way Forward?(Communication Paper); Shadi Abou-Zahra, Judy Brewer, Michael Cooper, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). (Best Communication Paper Nominee)
● Lunch Break (12.30 - 13.30)

● Session 10: Evaluation and Testing (13.30 - 14:30)

○ 13.30 - 13.45: Automatic Role Detection of Visual Elements of Web Pages for Automatic Accessibility Evaluation (Communication Paper);Carlos Duarte, Ana Salvado, Luis Carrico, LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa; M Elgin Akpinar, Yeliz Yesilada, Middle East Technical University.

○ 13.45-14.00: Semantic Content Analysis Supporting Web Accessibility Evaluation (Communication Paper); Carlos Duarte, Ines Matos, Luis Carrico, LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. (Best Communication Paper Nominee)

○ 14.00-14.15: Web Accessibility Evaluation in a Crowdsourcing-Based System with Expertise-Based Decision Strategy (Communication Paper); Shuyi Song, Bu Jiajun, Ye Wang, Zhi Yu, Andreas Artmeier, Can Wang, Zhejiang University; Lianjun Dai, China Disabled Persons' Federation Information Center.

○ 14.15-14.30: Reliability Aware Web Accessibility Experience Metric (Communication Paper); Shuyi Song, Jiajun Bu, Chengchao Shen, Andreas Artmeier, Zhi Yu, Zhejiang University; Qin Zhou, China Disabled Persons' Federation Information Center.
● Session 11: Doctoral Consortium Presentations - 2 of 2 (14:30 - 15.00)

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  Muhammad Saleem, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia – Arabic Accessibility Guidelines – Understanding and Use by Web Developers in Kuwait.
  
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  Jens Pelzetter – University of Bremen, Germany – Using Ontologies as a Foundation for Web Accessibility Tools.
  

● Afternoon Break (15.00 - 15.30)

● Session 12: Assistive Technology (15:30 - 16:30)

○ 15.30 - 15.50: Exploring Aural Navigation by Screenless Access (Technical Paper);Mikaylah Gross, Joe Dara, Christopher Meyer, Davide Bolchin, IU School of Informatics and Computing - Indianapolis. (Best Technical Paper Nominee)

○ 15.50 - 16.10: Multi-view Mouth Renderization for Assisting Lip-reading (Technical Paper); Andrea Britto Mattos, Dario Augusto Borges Oliveira, IBM Research.

○ 16.10 - 16.25: Accessify: An ML Powered Application to Automatically Provide Image Descriptions on Website (Communication Paper); Shivam Singh, Anurag Bhandari, Nishith Parak, Accenture.

● Session 13: Motor Impairments (16.30 - 17.30)

○ 16.30 - 16.50: Vocal Programming for People with Upper-Body Motor Impairments (Technical Paper); Lucas Rosenblatt, Brown University; Patrick Carrington, Jeffrey Bigham, Carnegie Mellon University;Kotaro Hara, Singapore Management University.

○ 16.50 - 17.10: Designing an Adaptive Web Navigation Interface for Users with Variable Pointing Performance (Technical Paper);Aqueasha Martin-Hammond, Purdue University Indianapolis; Foad Hamidi, Tajas Bhalerao, Catherine Hornback, Amy Hurst, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Abdullah Ali, University of Washington; Casey Means, Rhodes College.

○ 17.10 - 17.30: Collaborative Accessibility Assessments by Senior Citizens Using Smartphone Application ReAcTS (Real-world Accessibility Transaction System) (Technical Paper); Takahiro Miura, Ken-ichiro Yabu, Institute of Gerontology (IOG), The University of Tokyo.

● Awards and Closing (17:30 – 18:00)

Wednesday April 25, 2018

● WWW Keynote (9:00 - 10:30) (Optional, paid-for add on)

● W4A Unconference Activities (11:30 - 17:00):

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