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Financial GoalsMaintain fund balanceReinvest for benefit of communityPrepare to take ASSETS to Europe

Meeting SIGACCESS Financial GoalsASSETS is primary source of revenueConservative budgetingFund balance has been restoredSurplus being used to support travel scholarships

and prepare for European ASSETS

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Member Benefits Primary benefits

SIGACCESS newsletter (online, three times per year)Reduced registration at sponsored and in-cooperation conferences and workshopsAccess to the above materials through DLSIGACCESS-MEMBERS email list

Additional benefits for the communitySIGACCESS websiteSponsorship of ASSETS and other relevant conferences and workshopsAdvocacy for computing and people with disabilitiesSIGACCESS Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards at the ASSETS conferenceSIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and AccessibilityRepository of PhD dissertations and Masters degree theses on accessibility topics

Two new benefits started this yearACCESS-ANNOUNCEMENTS email list for accessibility related information and eventsSIGACCESS Scholarship in Computers and Accessibility supporting practitioners,

researchers, members of advocacy groups, and individuals with disabilities who are interested in the field of computers and accessibility, to actively participate in the ASSETS conference and gain experience and knowledge from interacting with experts in the field

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SIGACCESS Goals SIGACCESS will be the focal point for the

international research community interested in accessibility/computing

To accomplish this goal, we will focus on two key sets of activities

Build and support an international community that produces

and disseminates high quality research results

Promote the development of a new generation of scientists

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International community creating and disseminating high quality research resultsLead effort to establish ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and AccessibilityWorking to make ASSETS more international1996 - Canada; 2002 - Scotland; 2006 - Canada; 2011/2012 - Europe

WorkshopsGoal is to begin supporting periodic workshops that focus on regions or topics that are under-represented within the ASSETS conference

Additional communication channels includeSIGACCESS web siteEmail lists (Members-only and new Access-announcements for broader reach)Newsletter

Additional mechanisms including social networking technologies are being considered to supplement those mechanisms listed above

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Supporting a new generation of scientistsDoctoral Consortium held in conjunction with ASSETS

52 participants since 2005Nine have completed their

PhD

Five are now Assistant Professors

One is a researcher at Georgia Tech

One is a researcher at Stony Brook

One with IBM ResearchOne with Sun

Two in faculty positions (ABD)

Remainder appear to be continuing their studies

Repository of PhD dissertations and Masters degree theses on accessibility topics

New Scholarships to support travel to ASSETS conference