uist-camera-ready

UIST Camera-Ready

A UIST acceptance is conditional: the June 27 notification (2026 cycle, verified 2026-07-08) accepts the paper as amended by your rebuttal, and the July 24 camera-ready is where those amendments come due. This phase has three workstreams — the contractual edits, the ACM production pipeline with its accessibility requirements, and conference logistics — and they share four weeks.

Workstream 1: deliver the contract

Reconstruct the promise ledger from your rebuttal (see uist-author-response) and the meta-review or condition list in the notification:

• Make each promised change where you said you would make it, and keep a diff-notes file mapping promise → location — useful if the process asks anyone to verify conditions, and essential when six co-authors edit in parallel.
• The growth budget is +10%: one extra page for standard papers, half a page for short papers (2026 numbers). Promised additions get the space first; new camera-ready ambitions get what remains.
• Do not silently make substantive changes nobody asked for; a camera-ready is a fulfillment step, not a second revision cycle.

Workstream 2: production and accessibility

Camera-ready flows through ACM TAPS (source upload, not just a PDF), and the 2026 guide adds accessible-PDF tagging via APTARA. The author-side accessibility obligations are concrete:

Writing alt text for an interface-systems paper is its own small craft: describe the interaction state the figure evidences, not the pixels. "Annotated sequence: a finger drags on the forearm and the cursor traces the same path on the watch, 0.3 s later" beats "screenshot of the system."

Alt-text pass over the figure inventory:
  [ ] every \includegraphics has \Description{...}
  [ ] every subfigure has its own description
  [ ] tables described (what varies across rows/columns, the takeaway)
  [ ] teaser figure description states the core interaction
  [ ] no description says "image of" / "figure showing" boilerplate

Workstream 3: de-anonymize and finalize assets

• Restore authors, affiliations, acknowledgements, and grant numbers; flip the acmart options from the review/anonymous configuration to the final one per the current guide.
• Reverse the third-person self-citation contortions where they now read oddly — but only where the meaning improves.
• Restore real repository and project-page URLs, and make them live before the proceedings do (see uist-artifact-evaluation for what should be at the other end).
• Produce the final video figure: captioned, de-anonymized, credits added; check the current guide for any preview-video obligation (待核实 for 2026).
• Complete ACM e-rights before TAPS will process; the open-access terms applying to UIST 2026 authors were not verifiable at check time (待核实) — read the e-rights form, not folklore.

TAPS realities

TAPS consumes source (LaTeX or Word), not a hand-tuned PDF, which surprises teams whose submission compiled through local hacks:

• Custom macros, non-standard packages, and manual float surgery that survived review can fail TAPS validation; budget one full rebuild-from-clean-template day.
• Figures need production-quality originals (vector where possible); the screenshot that looked fine at review DPI may not at publication.
• The \Description{} commands are part of the source, so the alt-text pass happens in LaTeX, not in a PDF editor afterward.
• Validate early: upload a candidate build the week the system opens rather than on the deadline, because TAPS error messages arrive on production timelines, not chat timelines.
• Keep the review PDF and the camera-ready in the same repository with a tagged divergence point; the "which version did we promise that in" question recurs for years.

Four-week schedule (notification June 27 → deadline July 24, 2026)

Conference logistics start now

• Registration and the presenting author: confirm the current in-person requirement wording (待核实 for 2026) as soon as notification lands — visas for a US venue (Detroit, November 2-5, 2026) can take longer than the camera-ready window.
• UIST talks are short and demo-culture shaped: build the talk around the live or recorded demonstration, not around related-work slides.
• Plan the hallway demo: papers whose systems can be demonstrated at the conference compound their impact; shipping hardware to a venue takes lead time (and consider a Demos-track submission for the same system where the rules allow).

Output format

[Contract status] promises delivered <k>/<n>; open items with owners
[Page budget] final length vs +10% allowance
[TAPS status] source uploaded / validation errors / complete
[Accessibility] alt-text pass done? tables/math as markup? video captioned?
[Logistics] e-rights · registration · visa · demo shipping — each with a date