The link below leads to the HCI Bibliography, HCI Webliography, Accessibility Resources page. This page contains links to information on making computers and software more accessible to persons with disabilities.
Past SIGACCESS newsletters are available from the ACM Portal:
Newsletters June, 2003 - Fall, 1971
Newsletters current - September, 2003
Accessible Design in the Digital World: new media, new technologies; new users. Following the very successful Accessible Design in the Digital World Conference in Dundee in August 2005, we are pleased to announce Accessible Design in the Digital World '08, to be held at the University of York in September 2008. The conference will provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to discuss and debate the possibilities for accessibility and usability in the emerging world of Web 2.0, ubiquitous and pervasive technologies, and user experience.
Keynote speakers will include:
- Kevin Carey, HumanITy and Royal National Institute for the Blind
- Michael Paciello, The Paciello Group
- Graeme Whippy, Lloyds TSB
HCI International 2009. San Diego, California, USA. July 19 - 24, 2009. Thematic area on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction.
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
Universal Access in the Information Society
Behaviour and Information Technology
IBM Systems Journal: Special Issue on Accessiblity
W4A 2008. The International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2008)will be Co-Located with the International World Wide Web Conference(WWW2008), in Beijing, China, on April 21 and 22, 2008. The World Wide Web (Web) is returning to it's origins, surfers are not just passive readers but content creators. Wiki's allow open editing and access, blogs enable personal expression, Flicker, YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook encourage social networking by enabling designs to be 'created' and 'wrapped' around content. Indeed it seems that only the Web infrastructure supporting expression is immutable and invisible to the user. Template based tools such as iWeb, Google Page Creator, and RapidWeaver enable fast professional looking Web site creation using automated placement, with templates for blogging, picture sharing, and social networking, these tools often require publishing to a system specific server, such as '.mac'. In this case we wonder if the conjugation of authoring tools and user agents represents an opportunity for automatically generated Web Accessibility or yet another problem for Web Accessibility? Will form based and highly graphical interfaces excluded disabled users from creation, expression and social networking? What problems exist, what are the upcoming problems, what solutions are required? What about the accessibility of the content designed and created by surfers? Finally, what effect will this have on the wider Web? We pose the question: What happens when surfers become authors and designers? See website for more information.
17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008). The International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2) and Beijing University cordially invite you to participate in the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), to be held at Beijing International Convention Center in the historical and charming city of Beijing, host to the 2008 Olympics games. The World Wide Web Conference is a global event bringing together key researchers, innovators, decision-makers, technologists, businesses, and standards bodies working to shape the Web. Since its inception in 1994, the WWW conference has become the annual venue for international discussions and debate on the future evolution of the Web. The Browsers and User Interfaces track at WWW2008 will provide a forum where both researchers and practitioners can share new approaches, applications, and experimental results about web user interfaces, including issues of accessibility.
Designing Technology for Children with Special Needs at this year's Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference. The goals for the workshop are to:
- Bring together researchers and designers who work with children with special needs and their caregivers.
- Discuss best practices for understanding and designing for children's needs
- Analyze specific challenges of working with special populations and new methods for approaching these challenges
- Brainstorm about new directions for research and design
- Discover opportunities for collaboration and innovation
ICCHP 2008 11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs. University of Linz, Austria. July 9 - 11, 2008. Pre-Conference, July 7 - 8, 2008. ICCHP will focus on all aspects of Technology and Assistive Devices for people with disabilities and the aging population. Call for Papers: February 1, 2008.
SIGCSE 2008, 12 - 15 March, 2008. The 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education provides a diverse selection of technical sessions and opportunities for networking, learning and interaction. Everyone interested in computer science education is invited to contribute to SIGCSE 2008. The conference theme is Diversity through Accessibility. Accessibility in this context applies to computer science education, and that means approaches to learning that include everyone, putting the typically disenfranchised (e.g., minorities, women, people with disabilities, non-Western cultures) on equal footing with the "enfranchised." In this way, accessible computing education results in a more complete, more diverse, and more successful population of future computer science professionals. Themes are all about vision, and this one is pretty grand, at least in our opinion
The Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access (UA) and Assistive Technology (AT) 2008. 13 April - 16 April 2008. The workshop theme “Designing Inclusive Futures” reflects the need to explore the issues and practicalities of design that is intended to extend our active future lives in a coherent way. This encompasses design for inclusion: in the workplace; for businesses; for the individual and of products in these contexts. The philosophy underlying inclusive design specifically extends the definition of product users to include people who are excluded by disability and rapidly changing technology, especially the elderly and ageing, and prioritises the role and value of impairment and disability in innovation and new product and service development. It also addresses the context of use, both physical and psychological, and the complexity of interactions between products, services and their interfaces in specific contexts of use, such as in the workplace and during independent living. Universal access and assistive technology are seen as key focussing domains for these issues.
