Information structure and practice as facilitators of deaf users' navigation in textual websites

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-97

  Fajardo, I ^a   Canas, J J ^b   Salmeron, L ^c   Abascal, J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cognitive factors; Deafness; Information search; Web accessibility

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; NAVIGATION;

COGNITIVE FACTORS; DEAF USERS; DEAFNESS; DEEP STRUCTURES; INFORMATION SEARCH; INFORMATION STRUCTURES; NON NATIVES; SIGN LANGUAGES; TEXTUAL CONTENTS; TEXTUAL INFORMATIONS; TRIAL BLOCKS; TWO LAYERS; WEB ACCESSIBILITY; WEB CONTENTS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 60649104202     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449290801988290     Document Type: Article

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