Software engineering and AI for all The first ICSE workshop dedicated to accessibility and inclusion
SE4All brings together researchers, practitioners, and people with lived experience of disability to build software that works for everyone.
Six segments, one circle. Software that is built for everyone.
Why SE4All, and why now
Software decides who can learn, work, bank, get care, and take part in public life. A large share of it still shuts out people with disabilities, older adults, and anyone facing a situational or cognitive barrier.
At the same time, AI has moved into the heart of how software is built and used. It writes interface code, powers conversational agents, and increasingly makes decisions on a user's behalf. That is both a risk and an opening. The same models that can describe an image, caption a video, simplify dense text, or restructure a cluttered page are the tools that could close accessibility gaps at a scale that manual work has never reached, but only if we engineer and evaluate them with that goal in mind.
SE4All treats this as a software engineering problem. How do we capture accessibility in requirements, test and audit for it, build tools and pipelines around it, share the work between people and AI, and hold the results to account? The workshop keeps its feet in software engineering methodology and practice while drawing on the accessibility, HCI, and AI communities.
The timing is deliberate. The EU Accessibility Act is now in force, WCAG 3.0 is taking shape, and ICSE 2027 is hosted in Dublin, at the heart of the European policy landscape driving demand for accessible software.
What we want from the day
We want people to leave with new collaborators and a clear sense of what to work on next. Alongside paper presentations, the programme makes room for short practitioner talks and facilitated breakout groups. The notes from those groups feed a short community research roadmap that we circulate to everyone who attends.
We especially welcome experience reports and contributions from engineers and researchers with lived experience of disability. Their perspective keeps the work grounded in the needs of the people it is meant to serve, and we would rather build that in from the first edition than add it later.
Topics of interest
Read broadly. A paper need not be about disability in the narrow sense to fit, as long as it speaks to software engineering and AI for accessibility and inclusion. Open a topic to see what it covers.
AI across the lifecycle
Generating, repairing, reviewing, and testing software, and what it means for accessibility and inclusion.
Human and AI together
Human in the loop workflows and crowdsourcing for building and maintaining better software.
Testing and analysis
Automated testing, auditing, and quality assurance for accessibility, usability, and inclusive design.
Process and design
Requirements, architecture, design, and maintenance that treat inclusion as a first class concern.
Empirical studies
Mining repositories, datasets, and benchmarks for inclusive software engineering.
Emerging interfaces
Accessibility of conversational agents, generated UIs, mobile, web, IoT, and smart environments.
Trust and fairness
Verification, dependability, fairness, and responsible engineering of AI enabled software for diverse users.
Human and social aspects
Diversity, equity, standards and policy in practice (WCAG, EU Accessibility Act, Section 508), and education.
Experience reports
Industrial case studies and lessons learned from building software for all.
Submissions
Two tracks, IEEE format, single blind review. Every paper receives at least three reviews from the programme committee. Accepted papers appear in the ICSE 2027 Companion Proceedings, published by IEEE.
Regular papers
Original research, empirical studies, and tool papers, including references.
Short papers
Work in progress, position and vision papers, emerging ideas, tool demonstrations, and industrial experience reports, including references.
Journal special issue
We are arranging a journal special issue for extended versions of selected SE4All 2027 papers. Details will be announced here.
The official publication date of the workshop proceedings is the date the proceedings are made available by IEEE. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2027 and affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
Important dates
Deadlines follow the uniform ICSE 2027 workshop timeline. All deadlines are anywhere on Earth.
- Paper submission deadline
- Author notification
- Accepted papers and programme published
- Camera ready deadline
- SE4All 2027 workshop day, Dublin
Anywhere on Earth means the deadline passes when it is midnight in the last time zone on the planet.
Organising committee
Eleven organisers from six countries and four continents, spanning software engineering, accessibility, formal methods, AI, machine learning, and data science.
Programme committee
The programme chairs are supported by a programme committee drawn from the organising committee and being extended with additional reviewers from the software engineering and accessibility communities. If you would like to review for SE4All, please get in touch.
Volunteer to reviewGet in touch
Questions about the workshop or the call go to the general chair.
muhammadsohaib.ayub@universityofgalway.ieSE4All 2027 is committed to being an accessible event. Guidance for authors and presenters will include practical accessibility advice, and you are welcome to write to us about access needs at any point, before or during the workshop.
Email the chair