Analysis of navigability of Web applications for improving blind usability

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Takagi, Hironobu ^a,b   Saito, Shin ^a,b   Fukuda, Kentarou ^a,b   Asakawa, Chieko ^a,b  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b IBM JAPAN LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Online shopping; Usability testing; Voice browsers; Web accessibility

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

ACCESSIBILITY; ONLINE SHOPPING; VOICE BROWSERS; WEB ACCESSIBILITY;

WEBSITES;

EID: 34948876397     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1279700.1279703     Document Type: Article

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