SAMBA: A semi-automatic method for measuring barriers of accessibility

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 43-50

  Brajnik, Giorgio ^a   Lomuscio, Raffaella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ONLINE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

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

ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 42149188289     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296843.1296853     Document Type: Conference Paper

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