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WAI Research and Development Symposia

Introduction

WAI Research and Development symposia bring together researchers, practitioners, and users with disabilities interested in a particular aspect of web accessibility to advance research and development in that area.

The online symposia typically include a panel with the authors of accepted papers, and provide an opportunity for participants to ask questions.

Symposia proceedings, transcript, and a report are available publicly online afterward (listed below).

To get notification of future symposia and publications, see Getting WAI Announcements.

About RDWG

The symposia are organized by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Research and Development Working Group (RDWG).

RDWG helps:

• increase accessibility considerations in research on web technologies, including mainstream research
• suggest research questions that may contribute to web accessibility research projects
• inform development of web accessibility solutions
• decrease potential barriers in future web-related technologies
  

For more information, see the RDWG FAQ.

To submit ideas for future RWDG work, send e-mail to the publicly-archived mailing list: public-wai-rd@w3.org

Past and Upcoming Symposia

Easy-to-Read on the Web Symposium

Upcoming 2012 symposium.

Text Customization for Readability - Text Symposium information

Upcoming 2012 symposium to explore the needs of people with low vision, dyslexia, and other conditions that impact reading, and provide guidance to help user agent developers, standards developers, policy makers, web designers, and others to include specific text customization functionality in mainstream web products.

Mobile Accessibility - Mobile Proceedings , (Mobile Research Report expected late 2012)

June 2012 symposium to explore mobile accessibility challenges and solutions, and to develop a roadmap for future research and development.

Website Accessibility Metrics - Metrics Research Report , Metrics Proceedings

December 2011 symposium to scope the extent and magnitude of existing website accessibility metrics, and to develop a roadmap for future research and development in the field.

Making Collaboration Technologies Accessible - Collaboration Proceedings

April 2003 symposium on making collaboration technologies accessible to people with disabilities.

Document Information

Status: Updated 4 September 2012
Editors: Shawn Lawton Henry and Shadi About-Zahra. Developed with the Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) and with support from the WAI-ACT Project (IST 287725).
Symposia web page design (to specs): Liam McGee.