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SIGACCESS Viability Review

SIGACCESS Viability Review. Vicki Hanson, Chair. Transition status. Newsletter has been the reason for being in transition As of Jan’05, we are completely up to date Vol 80 & 81 (Sept’04 and Jan’05) out Have content in hand for Vol 82, which will be our first online publication (June’05).

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SIGACCESS Viability Review

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  1. SIGACCESS Viability Review Vicki Hanson, Chair

  2. Transition status • Newsletter has been the reason for being in transition • As of Jan’05, we are completely up to date • Vol 80 & 81 (Sept’04 and Jan’05) out • Have content in hand for Vol 82, which will be our first online publication (June’05)

  3. Financials • Fund balance has decreased steadily since ’01, but we’ve taken steps to reverse this: • Newsletter has moved to an online publication • ASSETS moved to an annual conference • More DL material from ASSETS • First time in several years, budget for FY’06 projects a surplus

  4. Membership and volunteer development • Steadily growing membership • Ready pool of volunteers - Business meeting had high attendance and a large number of volunteers for ASSETS and SIGACCESS • New EC composition • New newsletter editor • New webmaster • New ‘Left Field’ monthly column on website • New conference organizing positions created to involve everyone who wanted to work on the committee • Looking for additional volunteer capacities as I have names of people who would like to help with SIGACCESS. Ideas?

  5. ASSETS conference • ASSETS’04 (6th in the series) was held in Atlanta, Oct’04 • Move from every 2 years to an annual conference • Reasons: • Attendees wanted a meeting of this community annually • Easier to maintain momentum with annual conference at a specific time of year • Concerns • Enough volunteers for an annual conference? • Answer: More than enough • Enough high quality papers for an annual conference? • Answer: ? Paper submissions due 4/15/05 • NSF support for Doctoral Consortium at ASSETS’04 • Have applied for (and expect to receive) the same for ASSETS’05 • Have applied the ACM Small SIG fund money for ASL interpreters

  6. Community Activities • Name change: SIGCAPH to SIGACCESS • 2 Best Paper Awards established for ASSETS • Best paper • Best student paper • Provided financial support for: • Workshop on “Accessible Layout – The Tension Between Accessibility and Visual Design” at WWW2004 • Workshop on “Engineering Accessible Design” at WWW2005 • Partner for CHI’05 conference • Grow SIGACCESS community: The request for interpreter support at ASSETS’05 is a way to reach out to the deaf community that has had little participation in SIGACCESS

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