Green Digital Accessibility International Conference 2025

About the Conference

The Green Digital Accessibility (GDA) international conference is a leading international forum exploring the intersection of media accessibility and environmental sustainability. Launched in 2021 at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the conference has earned recognition as a hub for innovative ideas and solutions in the field.

As digital media accessibility advances in response to European and national regulations, concerns about its environmental impact are growing. Accessibility technologies often increase the media sector’s carbon footprint, raising critical questions for researchers, engineers, and media professionals. GDA was created to address this challenge, fostering cross-sector dialogue and collaboration.

The conference provides a platform for exchanging ideas, research findings, and experiences on topics such as the environmental costs of accessibility technologies, sustainable UX and HCI, methodological approaches to assessing the environmental impact of digital media, models of environmentally responsive media education, and social issues related to equal and climate-sustainable access to culture.

The 4th edition of the GDA conference will be hosted by SWPS University in Warsaw. This year, it will focus on the challenges of building a sustainable and inclusive digital future. The event is open to anyone interested, at any career stage.

Topics of the conference include but are not limited to:

1. AI, Accessibility, and Inclusive Design
   • Influence of AI on accessibility design in digital experiences
   • Artifacts and simplexity in accessibility
   • Accessibility for cognitive disabilities
   • Cultural heritage accessibility
   • The role of AI in green and accessible technologies
   • AI ethics and sustainability in accessibility services
   • Inclusive project design
2. Environmental Sustainability and Green Transition
   • The environmental cost of AI / green and just transition / local knowledge
   • Green aspects of manufacturing
   • Intersectionality of IPCC AR6
   • Anti-green movements
   • System dynamics analysis of socio-ecological systems
3. Climate Change, Education, and Awareness
   • Climate information accessibility
   • Educating children about GDA: introducing green education into curricula
   • Green education for all
   • Eco-literacy, translation, and communication
   • Focus on end users, including people with disabilities and minority groups affected by climate change

Conference Format

The conference will be held in a hybrid format, but we strongly encourage all speakers to attend in person.

The official language of the conference is English.

Extended Abstract Submission Guidelines

Call for submissions will open soon.

We invite extended abstract submissions of up to two pages (excluding references) in A4 format.

We welcome both empirical research and position papers, particularly those presenting novel works which may include completed systems and/or studies, preliminary results of piloting studies, or early iterations of the design.

GDA Conference follows a single-stage, single-blind reviewing procedure.

Submission requirements:

• Submit your abstract in PDF format only.
• You may include supplementary materials (e.g., videos, code, datasets).

Organizers

Eye Tracking Research Center

Scientific Committee

• Krzysztof Krejtz, Ph.D. / Associate Professor
  SWPS University
• Izabela Krejtz, Ph.D. / Associate Professor
  SWPS University
• Dr. Ann Marcus-Quinn
• Dr. Carlos Duarte
• Professor. Pilar Orero
• Dr. Sarah Anne McDonagh
• Dr. Marta Brescia Zapata
• Professor Morten Field
• Professor Biljana Basarin

Organizing Committee

• Krzysztof Krejtz, Ph.D. / Associate Professor
  SWPS University
• Izabela Krejtz, Ph.D. / Associate Professor
  SWPS University
• Dr. Ann Marcus-Quinn
• Dr. Carlos Duarte
• Iga Stasiak
• Zofia Maciąg

Conference Venue

SWPS University, Chodakowska 19/31, Warsaw, Poland