Map use by adults with visual impairments

Professional Geographer

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 539-553

  Blades, Mark ^a   Spencer, Christopher ^a   Ungar, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blind; Cartography; Tactile maps; Visually impaired

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000398255     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00191     Document Type: Article

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