Steps toward making distance learning accessible to students and instructors with disabilities

Information Technology and Disabilities

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Burgstahler, Sheryl ^a   Corrigan, Bill ^a   McCarter, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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