Assessing the accessibility of fifty United States government Web pages: Using Bobby to check on Uncle Sam

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Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Ellison, Jim ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33745899042     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v9i7.1161     Document Type: Article

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