General information
The Eyes4Access 2026 workshop will gather interdisciplinary researchers, practitioners, and students to explore advances in eye-tracking research for accessibility, with a particular focus on the growing role of AI in enabling inclusive, adaptive, and personalized user experiences. The workshop will bring together work spanning inclusive technologies, interaction techniques, and real-world applications in digital media, education, culture, and online environments.
Building on last year's successful workshop, Eyes4Access 2026 aims to advance the potential of gaze-based and AI-supported accessibility solutions, highlighting how eye tracking combined with intelligent systems can support users with sensory, cognitive, and neurodiverse needs. The workshop will foster community collaboration by sharing novel research, methods, ethical perspectives, and applications at the intersection of eye tracking, accessibility, and AI, contributing to societal equity and innovation in assistive technologies.
We invite researchers, practitioners, and students to submit their work to the Eyes4Access Workshop. We welcome submissions from any field using eye tracking for accessibility. We welcome both empirical research papers and position papers. We particularly encourage novel works which may include completed systems and/or studies, preliminary results of piloting studies, or early iterations of the design.
Submissions format
To contribute, please submit an extended abstract of a maximum of eight pages excluding references. Papers must be original and not accepted previously for publication or under review elsewhere.
We use the ACM article template for all submissions. To prepare your paper for submission, please use the single-column format using the provided Word or LaTeX templates. For LaTeX use “manuscript,review,anonymous” style available in the template. Please use the "author year" citation and reference format.
Links to paper templates:
- LaTeX (Use sample-manuscript.tex for submissions)
- Microsoft Word
- Overleaf (or search for ACM Conference Proceedings "Master" Template)
Submitted papers must be anonymized for double-blind peer review, i.e., paper submissions must be appropriately anonymized to conceal the authors' identities and institutions.
Please submit only the PDF version of your manuscript. Submissions may include supplementary material, such as videos, code, or datasets that will be archived together with the paper in the ACM DL. Video submissions are not required, but encouraged to help demonstrate interactive systems that are otherwise difficult to showcase using images or text. Videos should use the MP4 format with H.264 codec and file size should not exceed 100 MB. We recommend the standard 1920x1080 resolution (1280x720 as an alternative). Any supplementary materials, including the video, must be anonymized for review.
Submission and review process
Eyes4Access workshop uses the Precision Conference System (PCS) to handle the submission and reviewing process. Please ensure that you are making a submission to Society=ETRA, Conference=ETRA 2026, Track={Eyes4Access}, and choose the respective track.
All submissions will go through a single-phase review process. They will be carefully reviewed by three reviewers, who will evaluate the submissions based on their fit with the workshop theme, originality, and quality. After the review process, the authors will receive the final acceptance or rejection notification.
Publication and presentation
Accepted papers will be published in the adjunct proceedings of the ETRA’26 conference in the ACM Digital Library.
Note that at least one author of an accepted submission must attend the workshop, provide a short presentation, and register for both the workshop and at least one day of the main ETRA conference. Details about the presentation format will follow after the acceptance notification.
Important dates
- March 1, 2026: Papers submissions due
- March 20, 2026: Notifications to authors
- March 30, 2026: Camera-ready paper
- Workshop date to be announced
(Note that all deadlines are in the AOE time zone)
ACM Open Notice
Starting January 1, 2026, ACM has fully transitioned to Open Access. All ACM publications will be 100% Open Access, which applies to the papers accepted at the Eyes4Access workshop. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs).
To publish your work without incurring a fee, the corresponding author's institution must be an ACM OPEN participating member. A comprehensive list of participating countries and institutions is available at https://libraries.acm.org/acmopen/open-participants.
Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a geographic or discretionary financial hardship waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the Policy on Geographic APC Waivers and Discounts Policy and the Policy on Discretionary APC Waivers. Keep in mind that discretionary waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM.
Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer:
- $250 APC for ACM/SIG members
- $350 for non-members
This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM.