ICCHP 2026

ICCHP OCG Roland Wagner Award

The Austrian Computer Society announces the biannual Roland Wagner Award on Computers Helping People with Special Needs in the amount of € 3000.
Awardees are announced at the conferences.
Please submit nominations for the Award by email to office@icchp.org by June 22, 2026.

The Roland Wagner Award, a sculpture that looks like a flame, made out of glass

ICCHP Roland Wagner Awardees

Award 12Inmaculada Placencia-Porrero, Directorate-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion at the European Commission
Award 11Deborah Fels, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada
Award 10Jan Engelen, University of Leuven
Award 9NVDA, Michael Curran & James Teh
Award 8Dominique Burger, BrailleNet, Inserm, France
Award 7Shared Award for:
– Masakazu Suzuki (Kyushu University), Japan
– Art Karshmer (University of San Francisco), USA
Award 6The TRACE Center, USA / Gregg Vanderheiden
Award 5Shared Award for:
– Harry Murphy (Center on Disabilities at California State University), USA
– Joachim Klaus (Study Center for the Visually Impaired, Karlsruhe University), Germany
Award 4Daisy Consortium, USA / George Kersher
Award 3Larry Scadden (National Science Foundation), USA
Award 2Paul Blenkhorn (For scientific work in software development in AT), UK
Award 1WAI-W3C, USA / Judy Brewer
Award 0Roland Wagner (Initiating award on the occasion of Prof. Wagners 50th birthday), AT
Previous Winners of the award
Dominique Burger, BrailleNet, Inserm, France
Michael Curran & James Teh, previous winners and creators of screenreader NVDA
Jan Engelen, University of Leuven
previous winner Deborah Fels from Toronto Metropolitan University
Inmaculada Placencia-Porrero, Directorate-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion at the European Commission