Achieving a more usable World Wide Web

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 231-246

  Hanson, V L ^a   Richards, J T ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Document transformation; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ERROR ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

ACCESSIBILITY; CLIENT-SIDE TRANSFORMATIONS; DOCUMENT TRANSFORMATION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 27944457924     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449290412331327465     Document Type: Article

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