Opening the eyes of those who can see to the world of those who can't: A case study

Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 22-26

  Harrison, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; Screen readers; Visually impaired; Web accessibility; Web page design; Web page development

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; SCREEN READERS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; WEB ACCESSIBILITY; WEB PAGE DESIGN; WEB PAGE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; ERRORS; FLUORESCENT SCREENS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; ONLINE SEARCHING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STUDENTS; USER INTERFACES; WEB BROWSERS; WEBSITES;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 20444491668     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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