A survey on the accessibility awareness of people involved in web development projects in Brazil

W4A'08: Proceedings of the 2008 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility, W4A

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 87-96

  Freire, Andre P ^a   Russo, Cibele M ^a   Fortes, Renata R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Developers; Perception; Survey; Web accessibility

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPERS; INFORMATION SOCIETIES; PERCEPTION; WEB ACCESSIBILITY; WEB BASED; WEB DEVELOPMENTS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 57349175891     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1368044.1368064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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