Folks,
this is to urge you to consider joining us in Hawaii in early May for
the WWW11 Conference but especially the Accessibility Workshop and
the metadata and accessibility sessions of the main WWW2002
Conference.

WWW11 has a heavy emphasis on metadata and semantic web use of
metadata this year. Sso many (unfortunately (or fortunately)) very
good papers were submitted in this area that even though only a
small proportion of those submitted could be accepted, there will be
a lot of them.

Metadata about accessibility is clearly going to be useful beyond
just for discovery so those interested in it may well want to know
how such metadata can be made to be active and useful.

In addition to the sessions in the main conference then, there will
be a workshop in which we propose to spend half a day working on
possibilities for accessibility metadata. We are still finalising the
program but intend to cover especially the new Evaluation And Report
Language (EARL) being developed by W3C working groups, and how it
will be useful in the accessibility area. We hope to demonstrate live
evaluation and production of EARL metadata that can be used for
discovery and matching of resources with needs.

The morning of the workshop is intended to provide an opportunity for
us to summarise the guidelines, standards, authoring software, user
agents and evaluation applications being developed by the range of
players working on accessibility across the world.

We do hope you can join us for this important work. Early Bird
registration closes on Marh 15.

See http://www.WWW2002.org/

Liddy