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Welcome to our internally facing list of research topics. You'll see that we have those which are completed at the bottom, while the ones we are currently focusing on are at the top. Those under discussion are listed in chronological order in the middle.

We'd like to invite anyone to propose a new topic, by adding it to the bottom of the 'Prosed' list. But you'll need to use our template for creating new topics to do this.

Have Fun!

Current Research Topic

3. Text Customization for Readability (TC4R)

• TC4R Report Draft
• TC4R Symposium main page on the WAI website
• Call for Proposals on the WAI website
• Text Customization Symposium draft page (outdated) was used for editing from the first published version to the second of the main page & CfP
• Topic 3 Timeline includes Topic 4
• Topic 3 pre-call has notes
• Text Customization topic proposal (outdated) is an old internal planning page
• Editors will be Shawn Henry, David Sloan

4. Easy to Read (e2r)

• e2r Symposium main page on the WAI website - TBD
• Call for Proposals on the WAI website - TBD
• Easy2Read_Symposium_draft_page currently has the draft Call for Papers following the structure of topic 3.
• Topic 4 timeline is included in Topic 3 Timeline
• Topic 4 pre-call holds the condensed topic descripton - to be included into the main page and the Call
• Easy_to_Read holds the original topic discussion - to be tranfered into the main page and the Call
• Editors will be Klaus Miesenberger, Andrea Petz and Birgit Peböck (provisionally).

Research Topic Next Up

5. Topic 5 TBA / Topic 5 Timeline

6. Topic 6 TBA / Topic 6 Timeline

Proposed Research Topics (in Chronological Order of Creation)

The following is an initial, non-exhaustive list of proposed research topics. It will be continually expanded and refined by RDWG in the coming weeks:

• Accreditation Methods (Accreditation, Accessibility, Certification.)
• Authoring Accessibility (Simple, Authoring Language, Rapid Development.)
• Benchmarking Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools (Evaluation, Benchmarking, Metrics, Samples.)
• Easy to Read (Guidelines, Language, Internationalization.)
• Guideline Specification Languages (Guidelines, Evaluation, Conformance, Specification.)
• Open Research Frameworks (Framework, Open Research, Accessible Tools.)
• Web Inclusion (Inclusion, Developing Regions, Internationalization, Low Income.)
• Web Page Sampling (Evaluation, Quality Assurance, Conformance.)
• Ubiquitous Web Accessibility (Guidelines, Evaluation, Accessible Tools.)
• User Evaluation Methods for Web Accessibility Evaluation (User evaluation, evaluation, conformance, guidelines.)
• Benefits of Accessibility.
• Accessible Security (Security, Language, Questions, Easy to read)
• Cloud Computing Accessibility (Chances, Risks, Tools)
• Accessible Ads (Guidelines, Mobile)
• CSS Accessibility (CSS, Style)
• WAI-ARIA Support (Guidelines, Assistive Technologies, Clients)
• Technologies for Accessibility such as Voice and Braille Interface
• Virtual Reality technologies (Opportunities and dangers, Guidelines)
• Augmented Reality / Internet of things (Opportunities and dangers, Accessibility tagging)
• Accessible Maps (Guidelines, Mobile, Assistive Technologies)
• Static Documents on the Web: Document Accessibility (Guidelines, Static Documents, Structure & Design, File Formats)
• User modelling (Adaptation of user interfaces to individual users or to a group of users, Software development)
• HTML(5) Accessibility (Guidelines)
• Dynamic Content Accessibility (Guidelines, Assistive Technologies)
• Inclusion by Accessible Social Media
• Sign Language on the Web
• Internet_of_Things
• Tangible_Interfaces
• Smart Images
• Accessible Notifications
• E-learning Accessibility

Note: Please use the Template for creating new topics.

Completed Research Topics

1. Benchmarking Web Accessibility Metrics (Automated Metrics, Evaluation, Benchmarking.)
2. Mobile Accessibility Mobile