Browsing shortcuts as a means to improve information seeking of blind people in the WWW

Universal Access in the Information Society

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 273-283

  Kouroupetroglou, Christos ^a   Salampasis, Michail ^b   Manitsaris, Athanasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Browsing shortcuts; Resource Description Framework (RDF); Semantic web; Voice browser

Indexed keywords

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; ONLINE SEARCHING; WEB BROWSERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BROWSING SHORTCUTS; RESOURCE DESCRIPTION FRAMEWORK; VOICE BROWSER;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 35449002372     PISSN: 16155289     EISSN: 16155297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10209-007-0090-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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