Beyond conformance: The role of accessibility evaluation methods

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5176 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 63-80

  Brajnik, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

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EID: 52149095810     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85200-1_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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