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Online Symposium [5 December 2011]

>> SHADI ABOU-ZAHRA: Welcome everybody. My name is Shadi Abou-Zahra. I'm going to be moderating this Online Symposium on Website Accessibility Metrics. We will get started right away. Thank you for joining. Giorgio and Markel, please go ahead if you have any introductory welcome words.

>> GIORGIO BRAJNIK: Thank you, Shadi. I am Giorgio Brajnik. Together with the other editors of this meeting, Markel Vigo from Manchester University and Joshue O Connor have organized this Online Symposium on Web Accessibility Metrics.

Our work has been substantially supported by other members of the Research and Development Working Group of the W3C, a group that is led by Simon Harper and nicely nurtured by Shadi Abou-Zahra. They did a very good job setting up the logistics.

This is the first meeting on research and development aspects of - related to the Web in general, so we hope that it is the initial event of a long stream of events that should become more and more successful and more and more useful.

We have chosen the first one dealing with Web accessibility metrics because we think that it is a topic that's becoming increasingly important from an application viewpoint, but is also a topic that is written with many different traps and pitfalls. We would like to start with this symposium to draw a roadmap of different aspects, different questions that should and could be tackled by people that are practitioners, by people that are in the research areas, by people that are in the industry, to shed some light on this topic.

The idea is really to have concrete outcomes from the - from this discussion. And we look forward to working with you on this consolidated output. And thank you very much, all, for your participation. I apologize for some of the logistical hiccups we've had, but I think overall we saw quite a number of different presentations from different aspects and different angles, and really good questions being raised at the end. So thank you very much, and stay tuned online. Bye-bye.