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The following is a list of upcoming technology conferences that may be appropriate outlets for web accessibility outreach efforts. Individuals involved in WAI activities are encouraged to participate in these conferences. Technology conferences such as these often provide multiple opportunities to participate including;

• Plenary sessions, which are open to all conference attendees, provide a great opportunity for increasing accessibility awareness.
• Workshops or tutorials provide attendees with in-depth knowledge on accessible design.
• Panel sessions provide an opportunity for a group of individuals to present multiple perspectives on accessible design.
• Exhibit booths provide opportunities for one-on-one interactions and information dissemination
• Paper sessions provide an opportunity for presenters to describe on-going research, practice or policy activities related to accessibility.
• Birds of a Feather (BOF's) provide an informal setting for discussions on accessible design.

Updating Conference Information

Please send notices of Internet, web, or assistive technology conferences or information about presentations related to web accessibility to wai-events@w3.org. Please include the Conference Name, Date, Location, URL, and Submission deadline if known.

Updating Presentation Information

If you are presenting on web accessibility at an event please send  information to wai-events@w3.org. Include Conference Name, Presenter(s) Name, Title of Presentation, Type of Presentation (Workshop or tutorial , Plenary, Panel, Paper, Booth, BOF), and URL of presentation materials).

Events

May, 1999

Conference: Human factors in Telecommunication
URL: http://www.hft.org/
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Date: May 4-7, 1999
Submission Deadline: unknown [Closed]

Conference: Computers and Advanced Technology in Education CATE 99
URL: http://www.iasted.com/
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: May 6-8, 1999
Submission Deadline: unknown

Conference: 8th WWW Conference
URL: http://www8.org/index.html
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: May 11-14, 1998
Submission Deadlines: November, 1998 [Closed]

Conference: Digital Knowledge III - Information Technology: Tracking the Impact of the Internet
URL: http://www.canarie.ca/cpi/events.html
Location: Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Date: May 13 and 14, 1999
Submission Deadline: November 15 [closed]
Web Access Presentations: Chuck Letourneau

Conference: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
URL: http://www8.org/index.html
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Date: May 15-20, 1999
Submission Deadline: October, 1998 [Closed]

Conference: May Media Day
URL: http://www.ragged-edge-mag.com/elecad/info.htm/
Location: Louisville, KY
Date: May 15-20, 1999
Submission Deadline: unknown

Conference: BrainShare Europe'99
URL: http://www.novell.com/text/corp/intl/emea/brainshare99/index.html
Location: Nice, France
Date: May 16-20, 1999
Submission Deadline: unknown

Conference: Internet World UK Spring '99
URL: http://www.internetworld.co.uk/spring99/
Location: London, England
Date: May 25-27
Submission Deadline: unknown, for info see: Internet World PROPOSAL Form

Conference: Internet World Expo France '99
URL: http://events.internet.com/intl/france.html
Location: Paris, France
Date: May 26-27
Submission Deadline: unknown, for info see: Internet World PROPOSAL Form

June, 1999

Conference: VISual '99 - 3rd Int. Conf. on Visual Information Systems,
URL: http://www.wins.uva.nl/events/VISual99/
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Date: June 2-4, 1999
Submission Deadline: unknown

Conference: ENABLE99 - Enabling Network-Based Learning
URL: http://www.enable.evitech.fi/enable99/
Location: Espoo, Finland
Date: June 2-5
Submission Deadline: Closed

Conference: Human Factors and the Web
URL: http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/hfweb/
Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland (about 25 miles north of Washington, DC.)
Date: June 3, 1999
Submission Deadline: March 8, 1999

Conference: Multimedia Applications, Services, & Technologies '99 (MAST-99)
URL: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/icc/99/mast.html
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Date: June 7, 1999
Submission Deadline: October 30, 1998 [closed]

Conference: The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
URL: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~stlhe99/
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada
Date: June 16-19,1999
Submission Deadline: Closed

Conference: ED-Media 1999
URL: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/
Location: Seattle, WA
Date: June 19-24, 1999
Submission Deadline: March 15, 1999 (works in progress)

Conference: The 19th ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education
URL: http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/ICDE/
Location: Vienna, Austria
Date: June 20-24, 1999
Submission Deadline: Closed

Conference: NECC 99 Spotlight on the Future: Technology for the New Millennium
URL: http://www.neccsite.org/html/necc__99.html
Location: Atlantic City, New Jersey
Date: June 22-24, 1999
Submission Deadline: Closed

Conference: Internet Society, 99
URL: http://www.isoc.org/inet99/
Location: San Jose, CA
Date: June 22-25, 1999
Submission Deadline: November, 1998 [Closed]

Conference: RESNA
URL: http://www.resna.org/resna99/index.html
Location: Long Beach, California
Date: June 25-29, 1999
Submission Deadline: December 11, 1998 [Closed]

Conference: The Digital Millennium: Collaboration, Integration, Education
URL: http://www.odu.edu/~nutn/conference99.html
Location: Bellevue, Washington
Date: June 27-29, 1999
Submission Deadline: February 1, 1999 [closed]

Conference: Web 99
URL: http://www.mfweb.com/
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: June 27 - July 1, 1999
Submission Deadline: unknown

July, 1999

Conference: Usability Professionals' Association 8th Annual Conference
URL: http://www.upassoc.org/html/1999_conference.html
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Date: June 29 - July 2, 1999
Submission Deadline: Posters March 1, 1999

Conference: Vision 99-International Conference on Low Vision
URL: http://www.lighthouse.org/vision99.htm
Location: New York, NY
Date: July 12-16, 1999
Submission Deadline: unknown

Conference: First Australian Institute of Computer Ethics Conference
URL: http://www.aice.swin.edu.au/events/AICEC99/AICEC99cfp.html
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date: July 14-16, 1999,
Submission Deadline: Closed

Conference: JavaScript Conference
URL: http://www.thunderlizard.com/tlp/javascript.html/
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: July 21-23, 1999
Submission Deadline: unknown

August, 1999

Conference: Internet World Australia '99
URL: http://events.internet.com/australia99
Location: Sydney, Australia
Date: August 2-4
Submission Deadline: unknown, for info see: Internet World PROPOSAL Form

Conference: Distance Learning '99: 15th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
URL: http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/
Location: Madison, WI USA
Date: August 4-6, 1999
Submission Deadline: February 26, 1999

Conference: SIGGRAPH 99
URL:http://www.siggraph.org/s99/
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: August 8-13, 1999
Submission Deadlines: Closed

Conference: Law and Technology
URL:http://www.iasted.com/
Location: Hawaii, USA
Date: August 9-12, 1999
Submission Deadline: March 1, 1999

Conference: ComNet
URL: http://www.comnetexpo.com/cnsf99/index.html
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: August 17-20, 1999
Submission Deadline: unknown

Conference: 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction,
URL: http://hci99.iao.fhg.de/
Location: Munich, Germany
Date: August 22-27,1999
Submission Deadlines: Closed

Conference: European Association for Institutional Research 21st Annual Forum
URL: http://www.evaluat.lu.se/EAIR/frames.html
Location: Lund, Sweden
Date: August 22-25, 1990
Submission Deadline: March 1, 1999

Conference: HUSITA, Human Service Information Technology Applications
URL: http://www.mtesz.hu/conftours/husita5/husitaen.htm
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Date: August 29- September 1, 1999
Submission Deadline: unknown

Conference: INTERACT '99, Seventh IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
URL: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/i99/
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Date:August 30 - September 3, 1999
Submission Deadline: Closed

Conference: Dis Ability in Education: Maximising Everyone's Potential Conference
URL: http://www.otago.ac.nz/disabilities/Conferences/DisAbility.html
Location: Dunedin, New Zealand
Date: August 30 - September 1, 1999
Submission Deadline: Unknown

September, 1999

Conference: Eurospeech 99
URL: http://tel.ttt.bme.hu/Eurospeech99/
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Date: September 5-10, 1999
Submission Deadline: unknown

Conference: 1st IEEE Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology SIIT ‘99
URL: http://www-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~jakobs/siit99/home.html
Location: Aachen, Germany
Date:September 15-17, 1999
Submission Deadline: March 5, 1999

Conference: Education and Technology II: Exploring Ethical Issues and Interactions
URL: http://www.cde.psu.edu/C&I/Education&Technology/
Location:State College, PA USA
Date: September 16–18, 1999
Submission Deadline: May 15, 1999

Conference: 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications
URL: http://eassun.eas.gu.edu.au/iccima99.html
Location: New Delhi, India
Date: September 23-26, 1999
Submission Deadline: Closed

Conference: Telecommunications Policy Research Conference
URL: http://www.si.umich.edu/~prie/tprc/
Location: Alexandria, VA
Date: Sept. 25-27, 1999
Submission Deadline: Closed (March 26, 1999)

Conference: Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia Forum
URL: http://www2.deakin.edu.au/odlaa/
Location:Geelong, Australia
Date: September 27-30, 1999
Submission Deadline: Closed

Conference: 43rd Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
URL: http://hfes.org/Meetings/AM-1999.html
Location: Houston, Texas
Date: September 28 - October 2, 1999.
Submission Deadline: February 19, 1999

October, 1999

Conference: Assistive Technology Industry Assocation World Conference
URL: http://www.atia.org/conf_info.html
Location: Orlando, Florida
Date: October 6-9, 1999
Submission Deadline: open, contact ATIA
Web Access Presentations:

Conference: Telecom 99 + Interactive 99
URL: http://www.itu.int/telecom-wt99/
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: October 10-17, 1999
Submission Deadline: unknown

Conference: Children's Interactive Expo
URL: http://www.place2b.com/
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: October 14-17, 1999
Submission Deadline: unknown
Web Access Presentations:

Conference: INTERNET AND MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS (IMSA)
URL: http://www.iasted.com/
Location:Nassau, Grand Bahamas
Date: October 18-21, 1999
Submission Deadline: March 1, 1999

Conference: 1999 Conference on Information Technology
URL: http://207.223.75.105/conference/confinfo/cit_99.htm
Location: Chicago, IL USA
Date: October 20-23, 1999
Submission Deadline: March 19, 1999

Conference: Closing The Gap
URL: http://www.closingthegap.com/conf/index.html
Location:Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN USA
Date: October 19-23, 1999
Submission Deadline: May 13, 1999

Conference: RUFIS '99: The Virtual University
URL: http://www.nau.edu/rufis99/home.html
Location: Flagstaff, Arizona U.S.A.
Date: October 21-24, 1999
Submission Deadline: March 5, 1999

Conference: WebNet 99
URL: http://www.aace.org/conf/webnet/call99.html
Location: Hawaii, USA
Date: October 25-30, 1999
Submission Deadline: February 25, 1999

Conference: EDUCAUSE ’99 Celebrating New Beginnings
URL: http://www.educause.edu/conference/e99/
Location: Long Beach, CA USA
Date: October 26-29, 1999
Submission Deadline: February 26, 1999 and March 15, 1999

November, 1999

Conference: Assistive Technology on the Threshold of the New Millennium
URL: HTTP://www.fernuni-hagen.de/FTB/AAATE99/
Location: Düsseldorf Germany
Date: November 1st - 4th 1999
Submission Deadlines: Closed

Conference: The 5th European Conference for the Advancement of Assistive Technology.
URL: http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/FTB/AAATE99/welcome.htm
Location: Düsseldorf/Germany
Date: 1st - 4th November 1999.
Submission Deadline: Closed

Conference: Internet World Asia @ Hong Kong
URL: http://events.internet.com/intl/asia.html
Location: Hong Kong, China
Date: November 3-5
Submission Deadline: unknown, for info see: Internet World PROPOSAL Form

Conference: NetExpo Washington
URL: http://www.newexpo.com/
Location: Washington, DC
Date: November 4-5, 1999
Submission Deadline: unknown
Web Access Presentations:

Conference: UIST99: Twelfth Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
URL: http://www.acm.org/uist/
Location: Grove Park Inn Asheville North Carolina United States
Date: November 7-10, 1999
Submission Deadline: May 7, 1999

Conference: Cities in the Global Information Society
URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/cut/events.html
Location: Durham , UK
Date: November 22-24, 1999
Submission Deadline: December, 1998 - Closed

Conference: 5th ERCIM WORKSHOP ON "USER INTERFACES FOR ALL
URL: http://fit.gmd.de/5-UI4ALL-Workshop/call.html
Location: Dagstuhl , Germany
Date: Nov. 28th - Dec. 1st 1999
Submission Deadline: June 30, 1999
Web Access Presentations:

December, 1999

Conference: Internet World Japan '99
URL: http://events.internet.com/intl/tokyo.html
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: December 8-10, 1999
Submission Deadline: unknown, for info see: Internet World PROPOSAL Form

2000

Conference: AMERICAS TELECOM 2000
URL: http://www.itu.int/telecom-wt99/exhibitions/americas_telecom2000/overview.html
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date: April 10-15, 1999
Submission Deadline: Exhibits - September, 1999, speakers - unknown

Conference: FOSE 2000
URL: http://www.fose.com
Date: April 18-20, 2000
Location: Washington DC Convention Center
Submission deadline:no deadline.

Conference: DESIGNING FOR THE 21st CENTURY II
URL: http://www.adaptenv.org/21century/
Location: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Date: June 14-18, 2000
Submission Deadline: September 1, 1999
Web Access Presentations:

Conference: IEA 2000/HFES 2000
URL: http://iea2000.hfes.org/
Location:San Diego, CA
Date: July 30 - August 4, 2000
Submission Deadline: April 16th, June 18, 1999

Links to Conference Lists and Indexes Maintained on Other Sites

• TechCalendar
• The Assistive Devices Industry Association of Canada
• The Usable Web Calendar of Events
• The Internet Conference Calendar - searchable index
• Web Events Calendar - from CIO Business
• Netlib Conferences Database
• Internet World Trade Shows
• Global Conferences
• Calendar of conferences and seminars TELEMATICS project 1109

• Past Conferences

Last Update: April 23, 1999
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