Usability testing with screen reading technology in a windows environment

Proceedings of the Conference on Universal Usability

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 102-109

  Barnicle, Kitch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; Disability; GUI; Screen reader

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SCREEN READING;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0034592934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/355460.355543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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