Evaluating government website accessibility: A comparative study

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 491-515

  Hong, Soongoo ^a   Katerattanakul, Pairin ^b   Joo, Seok Jeong ^c  

^a Dong A University   (South Korea)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Informatization Service Department   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Automated software monitoring tools; E Government; Evaluation; Human experts; Korea; Website accessibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 51449124303     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622008003058     Document Type: Article

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