Web accessibility: A digital divide for disabled people?

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 208, Issue , 2006, Pages 217-228

  Adam, Alison ^a   Kreps, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSPORTATION; WEBSITES;

DIGITAL DIVIDE; DISABLED PEOPLE; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS; SOCIAL INCLUSION; WEB ACCESS; WEB ACCESSIBILITY;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 33749186938     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-34588-4_15     Document Type: Article

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