Effects of sampling methods on web accessibility evaluations

ASSETS'07: Proceedings of the Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 59-66

  Brajnik, Giorgio ^a   Mulas, Andrea ^a   Pitton, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accessibility evaluation method; Accessibility metric; Quality assessment; Web accessibility

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; DATA TRANSFER; INFORMATION SERVICES; ONLINE SEARCHING; WEBSITES;

ACCESSIBILITY EVALUATION METHODS; ACCESSIBILITY METRIC; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; WEB ACCESSIBILITY;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 42149157825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296843.1296855     Document Type: Conference Paper

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