Techniques for developing more accessible web applications: A survey towards a process classification

SIGDOC'07: Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 162-169

  Freire, Andre Pimenta ^a   Goularte, Rudinei ^a   Fortes, Renata P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Information accessibility; Information design; Universal web design; Universal web usability; Web accessibility

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES;

INFORMATION ACCESSIBILITY; INFORMATION DESIGN; UNIVERSAL WEB DESIGN; UNIVERSAL WEB USABILITY; WEB ACCESSIBILITY;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 42149109145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1297144.1297177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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