WebinSitu: A comparative analysis of blind and sighted browsing behavior

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 51-58

  Bigham, Jeffrey P ^a   Cavender, Anna C ^a   Brudvik, Jeremy T ^a   Wobbrockt, Jacob O ^a   Ladner, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind users; Web accessibility; Web studies

Indexed keywords

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES; WEB BROWSERS; WEB SERVICES;

BLIND USERS; WEB ACCESSIBILITY; WEB STUDIES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 42149171244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296843.1296854     Document Type: Conference Paper

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