Winners
The 12th Roland Wagner Award, ICCHP 2024:
Inmaculada Placencia Porrero,
Senior Expert on Disability at the European Commission
The 11th Roland Wagner Award, ICCHP-AAATE 2022:
Deb Fels – Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
The 10th Roland Wagner Award, ICCHP 2020:
Jan Engelen
for his outstanding achievements in the field of accessibility.
The 9th Roland Wagner Award, ICCHP 2018:
NVDA – Michael Curran and James Teh
for their outstanding achievements in developing a free, open source screen reader that supports 43 different languages. Read more about the background of NVDA.
The 8th Roland Wagner Award, ICCHP 2016:
Dominique Burger, INSERM, BrailleNet, France
for outstanding achievements in the field of accessibility.
The 7th ICCHP Roland Wagner Award, ICCHP 2014:
Prof. Dr. Art Karshmer, University of San Francisco, USA and
Prof. Dr. Masakazu Suzuki, Kyushu University, Japan
for outstanding achievements in the field of accessibility of mathematics.
The 6th ICCHP Roland Wagner Award, ICCHP 2012:
The TRACE Centre of the University Wisconsin-Madison
for their outstanding achievements in advancing Assistive Technologies and Accessibility over the last decades. Read more about the background of the TRACE Centre. The award was handed over to the founder and director of the TRACE Centre, Dr. Gregg Vanderheiden.
The 5th ICCHP Roland Wagner Award, ICCHP 2010:
Harry Murphy and Joachim Klaus
The nomination committee decided to split the 2010 award. Harry Murphy and Joachim Klaus are awarded for their life long dedicated work to establish services for people with disabilities. These services became models for initiatives around the globe. In addition Harry Murphy and Joachim Klaus are recognised for their support of ICCHP since its beginning.
Harry Murphy is the founder and former director of the Centre on Disabilities at California State University at Northridge (CSUN), USA, and the CSUN conference. He acted as general chair for ICCHP for many years.
Joachim Klaus is the Managing Director of the Study Centre for Visually Impaired Students (SZS) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany which has become a model for many other support centres in Europe and beyond. Since its beginning he is part of the Programme Committee of ICCHP, he organised the conference in Karlsruhe in the year 2000 and acts as publishing co-chair since 2000.
The 4th ICCHP Roland Wagner Award, ICCHP 2008:
George Kersher and the Daisy Consortium
for outstanding developments for print disabled people with world wide impact.
The 3rd ICCHP Roland Wagner Award, ICCHP 2006:
Larry Scadden
for dedicated work for equal rights and opportunities for people with disabilities having world wide impact and work at the National Science Foundation.
The 2nd ICCHP Roland Wagner Award, ICCHP 2004:
Paul Blenkhorn
for scientific work and software development in the field of Assistive Technologies, in particular to make them available in developing countries.
The 1st ICCHP Roland Wagner Award, ICCHP 2002:
Judy Brewer, W3C/WAI
for their engagement and development for guidelines and tools for web accessibility.
Special Award 2006:
Prof. Dr. Roland Traunmüller, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute Integriert Studieren
former heads of the Institute Integriert Studieren on the occasion of the 15th anniversary celebration of the institute.
Special Award 2003:
Prof. Dr. A Min Tjoa, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute Integriert Studieren
for the co-founders of ICCHP, on the occasion of his 50th birthday.
Award 0 and Initiating Award 2002:
Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner
founder of ICCHP and the Institute Integriert Studieren, on the occasion of his 50th birthday.
