An approach based on metrics for monitoring Web accessibility in Brazilian municipalities Web sites

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2421-2425

  Freire, André P ^a   Bittar, Thiago J ^a   Fortes, Renata P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

E government; Web accessibility; Web accessibility evaluation; Web metrics

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INTERNET; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ACCESSIBILITY EVALUATIONS; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; E GOVERNMENTS; E-GOVERNMENT; METRIC BASED APPROACHES; POLICY MAKERS; POWERFUL TOOLS; WEB ACCESSIBILITY; WEB ACCESSIBILITY EVALUATION; WEB METRICS; WEB PAGES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 56749151550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1363686.1364259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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