Evaluating DANTE: Semantic transcoding for visually disabled users

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Yesilada, Yeliz ^a   Stevens, Robert ^a   Harper, Simon ^a   Goble, Carole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Semantic Web; Transcoding; Travel; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTIC WEB; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SEMANTIC TRANSCODING; VISUAL DESIGN; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUALLY DISABLED USERS;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 35148856174     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1279700.1279704     Document Type: Article

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