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Use when auditing an ACM FAccT submission for OpenReview readiness — the mandatory abstract-registration gate with focus-area selection, the acmart anonymous/review PDF, the 14-page (+1 endmatter) budget, mutual anonymity, the required Generative AI Usage Statement and optional ethics/adverse-impacts statements, archival vs non-archival choice, and desk-reject triage before the deadline.

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FAccT Submission

Run this audit before uploading to the FAccT OpenReview site. FAccT papers are archival ACM proceedings in an interdisciplinary responsible-AI venue, reviewed mutually anonymously by a mixed CS+law+social-science pool. Every number below was read from the FAccT 2026 CFP and Author Guide on 2026-07-09 via search renderings (see resources/official-source-map.md); treat them as a one-cycle snapshot and reopen the live call first.

The two-step deadline (abstract gate first)

FAccT separates abstract registration from paper submission, and the gate is hard:

Abstract registration locks title, abstract, authors, and focus areas roughly a week early (FAccT 2026: 8 January 2026). Authors who do not register by this date cannot submit a paper — the focus areas drive reviewer/AC matching in the mixed pool.
Paper submission uploads the anonymized acmart PDF (FAccT 2026: 13 January 2026).

Register with the real title, abstract, and honestly chosen focus areas, not placeholders — a mismatch between your registered focus areas and your actual contribution mis-matches you to reviewers from the wrong discipline, the most damaging thing that can happen at an interdisciplinary venue.

Format and page budget

ACM acmart template, built anonymized for review, e.g. \documentclass[manuscript,screen,review,anonymous]{acmart} (single-column review format). The camera-ready later uses the sigconf proceedings format.
Page budget (verify per cycle): up to 14 pages excluding references (most papers 12-14), plus one additional content page for endmatter statements; references unlimited. Revised and accepted papers may use 15 content pages.
Do not modify margins, font, or spacing to gain space — editorial compression, not template tampering, is how you recover room.

Mutual-anonymity sweep

FAccT review is mutually anonymous: authors and reviewers are hidden from each other. Because FAccT papers often name systems, communities, and field sites, the leak surface is wide:

# Mechanical pass on the submission PDF and any anonymized artifact archive
pdfinfo paper.pdf | grep -Ei 'author|creator|producer'
pdftotext paper.pdf - | grep -nEi 'github\.com/[a-z0-9-]+|osf\.io|acknowledg|funded|grant|IRB #' | head
grep -rniE 'our (lab|group|team|university)|@[a-z0-9.]+\.edu' artifact/ --include='*.md' | head
unzip -l artifact.zip | grep -Ei '\.git/|\.DS_Store|/home/|/Users/' | head

The FAccT-specific leaks: a positionality statement left in the anonymous PDF (it is identity-revealing by design — remove it), acknowledgements or funding, an IRB protocol number, a named field site or partner organization that identifies the team, and a data-availability link to a personal repository.

Required and optional endmatter (do not skip)

Generative AI Usage Statement — REQUIRED. State whether and how generative AI was used to prepare the manuscript. FAccT prohibits using generative AI to wholesale-generate text. A missing statement is a compliance defect independent of the paper's merit.
Optional but expected where relevant: Ethical Considerations and Adverse Impacts statements — include them anonymized; they are read seriously.
Withhold until acceptance: Positionality, Author Contributions, Acknowledgements, Competing Interests — all identity-revealing; they must not appear in the anonymous submission.

Archival vs non-archival

Choose deliberately: archival (the default) publishes in the ACM DL proceedings; non-archival presents at the conference without proceedings publication (useful for work headed to a journal or already-published elsewhere). All accepted papers present in person regardless. Confirm the current non-archival mechanics on the Author Guide (待核实 per cycle).

Desk-risk triage

Finding at audit time	Severity	Real fix
Abstract/focus areas not registered by the earlier date	No submission slot exists	Nothing fixes this post-deadline — calendar it now
Main text over the 14-page budget	Desk-reject-grade	Cut or move to appendix; endmatter page does not absorb body text
Template altered (margins, shrunk font)	Desk-reject risk	Recompile clean, recover space editorially
Missing Generative AI Usage Statement	Compliance defect	Add it before upload
Positionality/acks left in the anonymous PDF	Anonymity violation	Remove; restore only at camera-ready
Focus areas mismatched to the actual contribution	Wrong-discipline reviewers	Fix at registration; realign before the abstract gate
Identity leak (field site, IRB #, repo, funder)	Anonymity violation	Re-anonymize and re-host

Final-week order of operations

Freeze the body early; endmatter statements can be drafted in parallel.
Register title/abstract/authors/focus areas well before the abstract gate.
Write the Generative AI Usage Statement; draft Ethical Considerations and Adverse Impacts.
Run the mutual-anonymity checks on the final PDF and archive — and confirm positionality/acks are out.
Fill every OpenReview field — focus areas, conflicts for every coauthor's institution and recent collaborators, archival/non-archival choice — a day early; late conflicts are the classic midnight failure.
Re-download the uploaded PDF and read it cold to confirm it is the file you meant.

Reverify each cycle

The abstract-gate and paper deadlines and their time zone.
The page budget (14 vs 15, endmatter-page counting) and the exact acmart options.
Whether the Revise decision, OpenReview platform, and Generative AI Usage requirement persist (all introduced in 2026), plus non-archival mechanics and any APC/fee-waiver policy (待核实).

Output format

[FAccT submission status] ready / blocked / needs work
[Registration] title/abstract/authors/focus-areas locked by the earlier gate? yes/no
[Format] pages used (body/endmatter/refs), acmart anonymous-review compliance
[Anonymity] clean / leaks: <where> / positionality+acks withheld? yes/no
[Endmatter] Generative AI Usage present? ethics/adverse-impacts included?
[Archival choice] archival / non-archival, deliberate?
[Fix queue] <ordered, with owners and dates before the deadline>