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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 ReviewLast 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 • 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)
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
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
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)
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