W4A: International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

Co-Located with the Eighteenth International World Wide Web Conference, in Madrid, Spain. The Conference will be held on Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st April 2009.

This year's main theme is: "Web Accessibility for Older Users - Are We There Yet?".
The topics of the conference are:

• Accessibility Problems of Older Users;
• Web Based Employment for Older Users;
• Web Based Health Care for Older Users;
• Evaluation and Validation tools and techniques for Older Users;
• User Experimentation looking at Social Networking and Freedom of Expression;
• User Agents for Older users and User Agent Guidelines;
• Web Authoring Guidelines;
• Design and best practice to support Web accessibility;
• Technological advances to support Web accessibility;
• End user tools;
• Accessibility guidelines, best practice, evaluation techniques, and tools;
• Psychology of end user experiences and scenarios;
• Innovative techniques to support accessibility;
• Universally accessible graphical design approaches;
• Design Perspectives;
• Adapting existing Web content;
• Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation.

For further information, please refer to the W4A website