A retrospective look at website accessibility over time

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 407-417

  Hackett, Stephanie ^a   Parmanto, Bambang ^a   Zeng, Xiaoming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CORRELATION METHODS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); WEB DESIGN;

WEBSITES;

EID: 29144506749     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449290500066661     Document Type: Article

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