Aurora: A conceptual model for Web-content adaptation to support the universal usability of Web-based services

Proceedings of the Conference on Universal Usability

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 124-131

  Huang, Anita W ^a   Sundaresan, Neel ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NehaNet Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptability; Disabled users; Web accessibility; Web intermediaries; XML transcoding

Indexed keywords

HTML; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES; XML;

WEB-BASED SERVICES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0034593086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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