Designing software architectures to facilitate accessible Web applications

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 467-483

  Hoffman, David ^a   Grivel, Eric ^b   Battle, Lisa ^b  

^a MILVETS Systems Technology   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS; ARCHITECTURAL SUPPORT; WEB APPLICATIONS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 23744470357     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.443.0467     Document Type: Article

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