For the last two / three years I’ve been increasingly vocal - and annoyed - at the lack of human factors and user interface work at WWW. I’m glad to say that in 2012 things seem to have changed - lets hope for continued change into 2013 and beyond. Finally, the Web Conference gets a ‘real’ human factors session! After a number of years bereft of user interaction and human factors work - beyond a submissions track - UI work makes a welcomed return to WWW 2012.

As you probably already know, this years slightly confusing (thinking of the Web4All co-located conference) www theme was, yes you’ve guessed it ‘Web For All’: The Web has had a glorious existence of over two decades and has revolutionized the way we work and live. It has been the catalyst for proliferating information across boundaries, enabling effective communication and 24/7 service availability all leading to a digital, information based economy that we have today.

This years W4A was yet again a triumph, especially Bebo White’s ‘Geezer’ - doing William proud for this second Memorial Address! Now, normally I pick out a few technical papers which I think pretty good, however, departing from convention I decided to summarise each paper, both technical and communication, in as near to 140 characters or two sentences as possible. In this way I hope that anyone interested will be able to quickly understand the gist of the paper and use this understanding to decide if they want to read further.