Contextual web accessibility - Maximizing the benefit of accessibility guidelines

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 134, Issue , 2006, Pages 121-131

  Sloan, David ^a   Kelly, Brian ^b   Heath, Andy ^c   Petrie, Helen ^d   Hamilton, Fraser ^e   Phipps, Lawrie ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^c Axelrod Research and Consulting   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e Designed for All Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^f Joint Information Systems Committee   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contextual design; Guidelines; Metadata; Methodologies; People with disabilities; WAI; WCAG; Web accessibility

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS; METADATA; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CONTEXTUAL WEB ACCESSIBILITY; WEB CONTENT; WEB RESOURCE;

WEB BROWSERS;

EID: 34250783252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1133219.1133242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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