FAccT 2026 is committed to providing an inclusive environment, and we will do our best to accommodate requests for assistance. This page describes the accessibility features of FAccT 2026 to help you make an informed decision about whether the conference will be accessible to you.
Feel free to contact the Accessibility Chairs (Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, Jaisie Sin and Brett Meyer) at accessibility@facctconference.org if your question is not answered here, or if the arrangements as described are not enough to allow you to attend. We will work with you to the best of our ability to make the conference accessible for all attendees.
The Accessibility Chairs for FAccT 2026 (Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, Jaisie Sin, Brett Meyer) aim to ensure the conference is accessible to all attendees.
When you register for the conference, there will be questions about accessibility needs and dietary restrictions. Please be aware that some accommodations and dietary needs may be difficult to provide at short notice, and we may not be able to accommodate every request. To ensure that accommodations can be made, please try to register by the early bird registration deadline.
The accessibility chairs will follow up after your registration to discuss your needs in more detail. You can also contact us directly at any time by emailing accessibility@facctconference.org.
If there is specific accessibility information you would like to see here, or if you wish to discuss any specific conference accessibility needs, please contact our Accessibility Chairs by email accessibility@facctconference.org, and we will respond to you shortly. We will also incorporate any additional accessibility information that arises to this FAQ.
More information on sign language interpretation or captioning will be available soon.
There will be live captioning services available for the keynotes in English. For paper sessions, tutorials, and CRAFT sessions, access to automated captions will be available. For in-person attendees in the keynotes, captions will also be presented on additional screens by the stage. For virtual attendees, all pre-recorded and live virtual sessions will have captions.
You have several options for getting from YUL Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Le Centre Sheraton Montréal.
For information about Montréal accessibility, including accessible public transportation options, we recommend visiting the official website for Montréal. Kéroul also has a lot of information on accessible tourism in Montréal.
Student volunteers will be available to assist attendees with navigation or other general accessibility needs. If you will need volunteer assistance at the conference, please indicate this on your conference registration form.
Attendees who require personal care assistance should bring their own assistant. Personal care assistants will need to register for the conference, but we will provide them with a registration code that waives the registration fees. Please specify this during your registration, and the Accessibility Chairs will follow up with you.
WYou can access annotated maps on the official conference platform.
Yes, the conference will be accessible to wheelchair users. The venue has rooms that are both power scooter and wheelchair accessible. Furthermore, official offsite events planned by the Social Chairs will be wheelchair accessible as well.
If you would like more information on the accessibility features of the venue, please contact venue staff at RESERVATION.LCS@SHERATON.COM. You can also request specific accessibility services from the venue at +1 514-878-2000.
The restrooms at the venue are gender-neutral. The venue will be using temporary signs to transform restrooms into gender-neutral restrooms. Additionally, the washrooms for disabled population are also gender-neutral and there are no urinals in washrooms.
The stages and podium locations differ between rooms. For rooms with stages, there are ramps with handrails for the wheelchair users. If you are a presenter who uses a wheelchair, please contact us as soon as possible so that we can make arrangements for ramps.
If you would like a student volunteer to operate slides or guide you onto and off the stage, or have other accessibility requests, please contact accessibility co-chairs at accessibility@facctconference.org.
We are currently in conversation with the venue to check the policy for service animals and will update this answer shortly.
Unfortunately, we are not able to ship robots to the conference venue.
We will soon provide an annotated venue map with alt-text including distances. Each room at the conference will have chairs for seating and space for wheelchair users.
We are still gathering information on walking demands of the offsite events.
Please contact Accessibility Chairs at accessibility@facctconference.org as early as possible if you have further questions or special requests.
We have added an open field in the registration form that participants can use to inform us about need of a hearing aid. Closer to the conference and based on the answers, we will order to required amount of RIC & IF.
Yes, microphones will be used for all speakers. Attendees with questions will be requested to use the microphones present in each room.
Yes, attendees who indicate special dietary requirements on their registration form will be provided with options when the conference catering does not accommodate them. If you have a severe allergy or special dietary need, please indicate this on your registration form. For more detailed information please contact accessibility co-chairs at accessibility@facctconference.org.
Yes, the entire indoor portion of the conference venue is a no-smoking area. There are no smoking rooms at the venue.
We are still gathering other information on sensory aspects of the conference. Participants will be requested not to use flash photography or to wear strong scents (though we cannot guarantee adherence). Please indicate on your registration form if there are specific items you would like to know about in advance.
There will be no hired photographers or strobe lights at any offsite event. We are still gathering other information on sensory demands of the offsite events and availability of quiet places.
Please contact accessibility co-chairs at accessibility@facctconference.org as early as possible if you have further questions or special requests.
We will provide a quiet space, prayer room, or nursing room throughout the duration of the conference.
For immediate emergencies, you can dial the following numbers:
You can also find a Student Volunteer or head to the Registration Desk to get in contact with the conference organizers, who can alert the appropriate service providers in Montréal.
The Organizing Committee of FAccT are committed to creating a welcoming and safe environment for all participants. To support this goal, we request that attendees remain at their hotels and refrain from attending the conference if they feel unwell. We encourage participants who have concerns to bring their own masks to wear during the conference. We will also have a limited supply of masks at the registration desk.
Authors are encouraged to refer to the CHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for pointers on how to make their submission accessible. For presentations, the SIGCACCESS community has prepared an Accessible Presentation Guide.
This FAQ was generated and modified from the Accessibility FAQ Generator tool provided by ACM SIGACCESS.