Print and online resources about Web accessibility: An annotated bibliography

Technical Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-91

  Mackiewicz, Jo ^a,b  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

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