Accessible Design in the Digital World

Tuesday 23rd August

08:30 - 18:30: Registration

Registration desk is on the ground floor in the Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa.

8:30 - 9:00: Coffee

09:00 - 17:00: All Day Workshop

Promoting User Sensitive Inclusive Design: Strategies for Communicating User Needs to Designers

Mike Jones & Jim Mueller, Wireless RERC, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA;  Alan Newell, Applied Computing, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK. 

09:00 - 12:00: Morning Workshops

How to create accessible documents in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF)

Hugh Huddy, Digital Policy Development, Royal National Institute of the Blind, UK.

Practical Accessibility in eLearning: Decisions, Dilemmas and Discussions for Educators and Developers

Chetz Colwell, Martyn Cooper & Mary Taylor, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK.

12:00 - 13:00: Lunch

13:00 - 16:00: Afternoon Workshops

Meeting the diversity of needs and preferences - a look at the IMS AccessForAll specifications' role in meeting the accessibility agenda efficiently (On University Campus).

Martyn Cooper, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK; Wendy Porch, Resource Centre for Academic Technology, Robarts Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Andy Heath, Communications and Computing Research Centre, Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.

13:00 - 17:00: Doctoral Consortium sponsored by Yahoo! Inc

The Doctoral Consortium will be held in the Apex Hotel.

16:00 - 18:00: SUPA Meeting sponsored by Digital Media Access Group

The Scottish Usability Professional's Association is holding a satellite meeting from 4-6pm at the Apex Hotel. More information about SUPA.

18:00: Conference Starts * * * *

18:00 - 20:00: Conference Welcome Reception sponsored by Interactive Tayside

The conference opens at 18:00 with a Welcome Reception held at the Apex Hotel. Authors will be presenting their posters during the Welcome Reception.

Wednesday 24th August

8:30 - 18:30: Registration

Registration desk is on the ground floor in the Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa.

8:30 - 9:00: Coffee

9:10 - 9:20: Conference Welcome and Briefing

9:20 - 10:05: Keynote

Prof Helen Petrie, City University, London, UK. More information about Prof Helen Petrie.

10:05 - 11:05: Paper Session 1 - Improving the Design Process

RealPeople; making users' pleasure needs accessible to designers

Dr C Samantha Porter, Shayal Chhibber, Professor J Mark Porter and Lynda Healey, Dept of Design and Technology, Loughbourgh University, Loughborough, UK

Training AAC Users in User-Centred Design

Annalu Waller[1], Susan A Balandin[2], David A. O'Mara[1], and Andrew D. Judson[1], [1]Applied Computing, Dundee University, Dundee, UK; [2] School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Sydney, Australia.

Optimising the User Environment: Leading Towards an Accessible and Usable Experience

Jatinder Dhiensa, Dr Colin Machin, Francesca Smith and Dr Roger Stone, Research School of Informatics, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

11:05 - 11:35: Coffee Break

11:35 - 12:15: Paper Session 2 - New Approaches

Probabilistic Flexible Abbreviation Expansion for Users with Motor Disabilities

Tim Willis[1], Helen Pain[1], Shari Trewin[2]. [1] ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; [2] Accessibility Research, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA

Profile-Aware Multi-Device Interfaces: An MPEG-21 Based Approach for Accessible User Interfaces

Kris Luyten, Kristof Thys, Karin Coninx, Hasselt University, Expertise Centre for Digital Media, Diepenbeek, Belgium.

12:15 - 13:45: Lunch

Lunch in Quay Suite with second poster reception after lunch.

Satellite meeting for Promoting User Sensitive Inclusive Design Workshop - lunch provided in meeting.

13:45 - 14:30: Keynote

Useful not Useless – The challenges of designing entertainment technology in the 21st Century.

Prof. Chris van der Kuyl, Chairman, Tayforth Holdings Limited, UK. More information about Prof. Chris van der Kuyl.

14:30 - 15:30: Paper Session 3 - Business Cases

Illuminating the Invisible?

Michael Underwood, Population Ageing Associates, UK

The Market Drivers and Business Case for Designing Accessible Public Technology

Lynne Coventry[1] and Steve Jacobs[2]. [1] NCR, Dundee, Scotland; [2] Ideal Group.

Web Standards in Local Government: the Clackmannanshire experience

Daniel Champion, Web Development Manager, Clackmannanshire Council, Scotland, UK.

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee

16:00 - 17:00: Paper Session 4: Considering the Future

Digital Television in the UK: is the opportunity for 'inclusivity' being missed?

Alex Carmichael, Mark Rice and David Sloan, Applied Computing, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.

Bionic 'eyes-free' design of secondary driving controls

J Mark Porter[1], Steve Summerskill[1], Gary Burnett[2] and Katharine Prynne[3]. [1] Dept of Design and Technology, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK; [2] School of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Nottingham; [3] Honda Research & Development Europe, Swindon, UK

Network-Based Accessibility Services For People with Disabilities

Jim Tobias, Inclusive Technologies, Matawan, NJ, USA.

19:00: Conference Dinner

Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa.

Thursday 25th August

8:30 - 14:00: Registration

Registration desk is on the ground floor in the Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa.

08:30 - 9:00: Coffee

9:15 - 10:00: Keynote

Designing for Individual Diversity.

Dr Vicki Hanson, IBM, US. More information about Dr Vicki Hanson.

10:00 - 11:00: Paper Session 5 - The Practicalities

Design Checks for Java Accessibility

Simon Harper[1], Ghazalah Khan and Robert Stevens[2]. [1] Information Management Group and [2] BioHealth Informatics Group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Sex, lies and accessibility: the use of the accessibility logos and statements on ecommerce and financial web sites.

Helen Petrie, Adam Badani and Arpna Bhalla, Centre for HCI Design, City University, London, UK

Factors Impacting Animation in Icons for Visually Impaired Computer Users

Stephanie Ludi, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA

NB Stephanie Ludi was unfortunately unable to attend the conference to give her paper. Instead, the following presentation, originally given at the W4A workshop in Chiba, Japan, in May 2005, was presented:

Forcing Standardization or Accommodating Diversity? A Framework for Applying the WCAG in the Real World

Brian Kelly, UKOLN, University of Bath; David Sloan, Digital Media Access Group, University of Dundee; Lawrie Phipps, Techdis; Helen Petrie and Fraser Hamilton, School of Informatics, City University, London.

11:00 - 11:30: Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30: Panel Session - "Legislation? Standards? How do we tell people to design technology that supports inclusion?"

Panel chair: Struan Robertson, Senior Associate, Pinsent Masons, and Editor of Out-Law.com. Members of the Panel are:

• Stephen Beesley, Development Manager, Disability Rights Commission, UK;
• Jim Byrne, Founder, Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS), UK;
• John Richards, Manager, Enhanced Web Experience, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA;
• Nate Koechley, Senior Engineer, Presentation Platform Engineering, Yahoo! Inc, USA;
• Martin Sloan, Solicitor, Brodies LLP, UK.

12:30 - 13:30: Lunch

13:30 - 14:15: Keynote

Accessible Design – Who are we actually designing for?

Prof Alan Newell, Applied Computing, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK. More information about Prof Alan Newell.

14:15 - 15:15: Paper Session 6 - Responding to specific conditions

MEDIATE - a responsive environment designed for children with autism

Simone Gumtau, Paul Newland, Chris Creed and Simon Kunath, Centre for Responsive Environments, School of Art, Design & Media, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

Opportunities for Augmenting Conversation Through Technology for Persons with Dementia

Lorisa Dubuc and Alan Blackwell, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Making Software Accessible to people with severe memory deficits

Norman Alm and Richard Dye[1], Arlene Astell and Maggie Ellis[2], Gary Gowans and Jim Campbell[3]. [1] Applied Computing, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK; [2] School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK; [3] Dept of Computer-Aided Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

15:15 - 15:45: Coffee

15:45 - 16:25: Paper Session 7: Designing for Older People

Towards Digital Inclusion: engaging older people in the digital world.

C.W. Olphert, L. Damodaran and A.J. May, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

The Non Browser: helping older novice computer users to access the web

Anna Dickinson, Peter Gregor, Louise McIver, Robin Hill and Scott Milne, Applied Computing, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

16:25: Conference Closing