Web accessibility technology at the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 48, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 735-749

  Maeda, Junji ^a   Fukuda, Kentarou ^a   Takagi, Hinorobu ^a   Asakawa, Chieko ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; WEB BROWSERS; WEBSITES;

SENIOR CITIZENS; TRANSCODING; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE; VOICE BROWSER; WEB ACCESSIBILITY;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 10644289537     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.485.0735     Document Type: Article

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