This may be of interest to adaptability aspects of DC Accessibility.

Regards,
   Shadi


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Subject: Registration Open: User Modeling for Accessibility Online 
Symposium  - 15 July 2013
Resent-Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:12:37 +0000
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Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:12:17 -0500
From: Shawn Henry <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,

The W3C WAI Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) invites you to 
participate in the online symposium on
       *User Modeling for Accessibility* on
       15 July 2013 at 14:00-16:30 UTC

Researchers, practitioners, designers, application developers, users 
with disabilities, and others are invited to participate. The symposium 
will analyze different methods and implementations of user modeling and 
their potential usage for improving accessibility. This includes the 
design, creation, storage, and usage of user models, in particular in 
web browsers, applications, authoring tools, and other aspects of the 
Web. For details, see
       <http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2013/user-modeling/>

Registration is available from
       <http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2013/user-modeling/#participate>

Space is limited; we recommend that you register soon to reserve a space.

If you have any questions, contact Shadi Abou-Zahra: [log in to unmask]

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RDWG Background:

The Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) helps:
  - increase accessibility considerations in research on web 
technologies, including mainstream research,
  - suggest research questions that may contribute to web accessibility 
research projects,
  - inform development of web accessibility solutions,
  - decrease the number of potential barriers in future web-related 
technologies.

RDWG Symposia bring together researchers, practitioners, and users with 
disabilities interested in a particular aspect of web accessibility to 
advance research and development in that area. The online Symposia 
include a panel with the authors of accepted papers, and provide an 
opportunity for participants to ask questions. Symposia proceedings, 
transcript, and a report are available publicly online afterward.

For more information, see the RDWG FAQ: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/process>

We welcome your ideas on this topic and your ideas for future RDWG work. 
Please send comments to the publicly-archived mailing list: 
<[log in to unmask]>

This Symposium is developed with support of the EC-funded WAI-ACT 
Project (IST 287725) described at: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/ACT/>

If you have any questions, contact Shadi Abou-Zahra: [log in to unmask]

Regards,
Shawn Lawton Henry, WAI Outreach
Simon Harper, RDWG Co-Chair
Shadi Abou-Zahra, RDWG W3C Team Contact




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Shawn Lawton Henry
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
phone: +1.617.395.7664
about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/