Submission Accessibility

Making Your Submission Inclusive

Authors should ensure their work and writing are as inclusive as possible; where this is not possible, it should be acknowledged. For example, authors should use gender-inclusive language when developing their papers (see e.g., HCI Guidelines for Gender Equity and Inclusivity) and consider what communities their work is – and is not – supporting, as well as their geographical context.

Making Your Submission Accessible

We strongly encourage that all submissions be made accessible, including manuscripts, videos, and other supplemental materials. Accessibility is important so that your content can reach as many people as possible. The resources below will guide you in making your submission accessible. If you have any questions or need specific assistance, please contact us at inclusion2027@iui.acm.org.

Preparing an accessible submission

Pay attention to accessibility even during the preparation stage with the use of correct built-in styles, metadata, and content mark-up.

  • The SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission lists a number of considerations related to headings, tables, equations, and figures. You should ensure every graphic has alternative text descriptions.
  • The SIGACCESS Accessible Writing Guide will help you use accurate and neutral terminology when describing your user groups, particularly if your submission presents research related to accessibility in computing.

Making your PDF accessible

Ensure that your final PDF document and its contents are tagged with accessibility metadata.

  • For Word: The SIGACCESS guide for Word provides step-by-step instructions for adding basic accessibility information to a Word document on a PC, before exporting it as a PDF.
  • For LaTeX: LaTeX currently lacks a good solution to natively export accessible documents into PDF. Thus the authors would likely need to add accessibility metadata by using another program such as Adobe Acrobat.

Please consult the SIGACCESS Accessible PDF and CHI2021 Final PDF guidelines to make your final PDF accessible.

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