White Paper: Promoting Design for All and e-Accessibility in Europe

Universal Access in the Information Society

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 105-119

  Klironomos, Iosif ^a   Antona, Margherita ^a   Basdekis, Ioannis ^a   Stephanidis, Constantine ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

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EID: 33745914211     PISSN: 16155289     EISSN: 16155297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10209-006-0021-4     Document Type: Article

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