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TranslationsCall for Papers:
Online Symposium on Website Accessibility Metrics
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Introduction
The W3C/WAI Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) will hold an online symposium on measuring website accessibility and invites your contribution. The goal of this symposium is to bring researchers and practitioners together to scope the extent and magnitude of existing website accessibility metrics, and to develop a roadmap for future research and development in the field. The symposium will be held on 5 December 2011; paper deadline closed on 1 November 2011.
See the main Website Accessibility Metrics page for:
Contributing
We invite extended research abstracts of no more than 1000 words from academia, industry, and others with interest in website accessibility metrics and quality assurance. We encourage concise contributions that are scientifically sound with appropriate references. We specifically seek reports and guides, which can be theoretical or practical in nature, that will help us to form our opinions and educate future readers. Papers should follow the template provided to clearly explain:
- the problem they tried to solve;
- on which previous work (no matter the domain) was the proposed approach based;
- how the problem was addressed; what major hurdles were found in the process;
- what were the main outcomes, lessons learned, and mistakes made;
- how was the quality of the metrics assessed; and finally,
- what future perspectives did this work open.
Review Process
Contributions will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee, and each paper will get at least three independent reviews, based on criteria including relevance, clarity, soundness and power of the arguments, generality of results/claims, novelty. Papers will be accepted based on this critieria and space availability. Accepted papers will be published - in an attributable form - as part of the proceedings and in the ensuing publication (RDWG Publications and RDWG Practice for Writership and Credits). Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work during the symposium.
Paper Requirements
Papers (of no more than 1000 words) must be provided in accessible HTML in the template provided. No modifications to this template or additional styling is permitted to facilitate amalgamation of the contributions into a consolidated publication.
Paper submission closed on 1 November 2011 (midnight US Eastern Time).
Copyright Policy
Accepted papers will be published - in attributable form - as part of the proceedings and in the ensuing publication, which will be published using the W3C Document License. Contributors shall grant W3C a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license to copy, publish, use, and modify the contribution and to distribute the contribution under a BSD License or one with more restrictive terms, as well as a right and license of the same scope to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or incorporating all or part of the contribution. The Contributor further agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
Important Dates
- 1 November 2011: deadline for paper submissions.
- 17 November 2011: notification of accepted papers and announcement of symposium agenda.
- 5 December 2011: online symposium event (expected between 12:00-16:00 UTC).
- January 2012: symposium proceedings (minutes, presentations, and papers from the symposium).
- February 2012: draft consolidated findings (in form of a W3C Note) for public review.
- April 2012: publication of consolidated findings (in form of a W3C Note).