A foundation for tool based mobility support for visually impaired web users

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 422-430

  Yesilada, Yeliz ^a   Stevens, Robert ^a   Goble, Carole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

mobility; mobility support tool; travel; travel objects; visual impairment

Indexed keywords

MOBILITY SUPPORTS; ORIENTATION AND NAVIGATION; TRAVEL; TRAVEL OBJECTS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS; WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOLS;

CARRIER MOBILITY; WEBSITES;

TOOLS;

EID: 57349172209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/775152.775212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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