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SIGACCESS Program Review Last review March, 2005

SIGACCESS Program Review Last review March, 2005. Vicki Hanson, Chair. Membership and Volunteer Development. Steadily growing membership Up from 206 members Dec ’03 to 295 members Dec ’06 2006 Elections – 9 candidates for 3 positions

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SIGACCESS Program Review Last review March, 2005

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  1. SIGACCESS Program ReviewLast review March, 2005 Vicki Hanson, Chair

  2. Membership and Volunteer Development • Steadily growing membership • Up from 206 members Dec ’03 to 295 members Dec ’06 • 2006 Elections – 9 candidates for 3 positions • Vicki Hanson (USA), Andrew Sears (USA), Noëlle Carbonell (France) • Ready pool of volunteers - Business meetings have high attendance and a large number of volunteers for ASSETS and SIGACCESS • New assistant newsletter editor • New web column writer (Left Field) • New conference organizing positions • New Members at Large for EC (3 positions)

  3. Conferences • ASSETS conference • ASSETS’06 had submissions • from 14 countries • 2005 ASSETS became an • annual conference • (previously every two years) • Other • In cooperation with ACM ITiSCE’07 • WWW accessibility workshops backing (’05 ’06 ’07) • Planning workshop in Japan (NSF funding) Spring ‘08

  4. Fund balance below required, but improving Decreasing costs • Newsletter has moved to online publication • ACM allocation Increasing revenue • DL allocation • Now have annual conference • Conference revenue • More DL content • Looking forward • Other conferences

  5. Member benefits • Newsletter up to date • 2 Best Paper Awards at ASSETS • Best paper • Best student paper • Provided financial support for WWW workshops: • W4A’05 “Engineering Accessible Design” • W4A’06 “Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering Accessibility” • W4A’07 “The Semantic Web: Hindrance or Opportunity?” • New ACM journal • Special Issue of TOCHI on Web Accessibility • Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  6. Issues for the SIG • Emphasis on student development • ASSETS conference has • Doctoral Consortium (sponsored by NSF) • ACM Student Research Competition • Partner: AccessComputing • Website has • Thesis abstracts and faculty • Issues • More involvement of people with disabilities • More attention to membership outside USA

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