[bcab] Call for Submissions - W4A Web Accessibility Challenge

"Web Accessibility Challenge" at the Fourth International Cross- Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2007) Co-Located with the Sixteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), in Banff, Canada.
"Innovative voice access interfaces for the Web: including browsers, techniques, and transcodings"
Web technologies are advancing to realize more dynamic and interactive user experiences for a wide range of users, in forms such as wikis, blogs, podcasting, movies, AJAX applications, and so on. However, basic verbalization and non-visual interaction techniques have not changed over this period. Now is the time for innovative new voice browsers. We would like to call for new, innovative voice access interfaces for Web contents. We want to gather various types of next generation voice browsers, and demonstrate the future of more usable voice access systems. Referees will score each system by novelty and achieved usability, and decide on a best access interface award for the submissions. Additional special awards will be considered, too. 

Submission Deadline: 31st March 2007
Submissions should be sent via email, addressed to challenge- submission@xxxxxxxx 

Submission Details:
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* Mandatory components for a submission are a two-page abstract and a demonstration movie (or audio recording). Software is not required, but encouraged. Abstracts should emphasize the innovative ideas in the system. * Abstracts should be in ACM/W4A paper format, since abstracts will be published in the proceedings. Abstracts and movies will be stored in the ACM Digital Library. * If you have any trouble sending large movie files via e-mail, please contact the coordinators (contact address: challenge@xxxxxxxx). * A presentation and demonstration session will be part of the W4A event, and so at least one of the authors is expected to attend the conference. * The demonstration movies should also be non-visually accessible, since some of referees are blind. * If you cannot prepare a movie before the 31st of March, please submit your abstract before this deadline and you can submit the movie afterwards -- we will give you detailed instructions on how to record the required movie. 

System requirements
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* Any kind of system is acceptable, such as standalone voice browsers, browser plug-ins, or telephony systems. Other non-visual access browsers can be accepted (e.g. tactile browser). Please contact us, if you have any questions about the coverage. * All submissions must handle standard HTML. Functional limitations are acceptable (e.g. lack of form input functions). Optimizations for some specific content are welcomed. Additional content types are highly welcomed, such as DHTML, Flash, SVG, or OpenDocument Format. 
* Open source systems are welcomed.
* Editing functions are not required, but a simple input editing function for forms is encouraged. Rich editing functions will not be considered in the scoring. 

Contact:
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* Chieko Asakawa (IBM Research)
* Hironobu Takagi (IBM Research)
  (challenge@xxxxxxxx)

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