A comparative test of web accessibility evaluation methods

ASSETS'08: The 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 113-120

  Brajnik, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accessibility evaluation method; Quality assessment; Web accessibility

Indexed keywords

SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

ACCESSIBILITY EVALUATION METHOD; COMPARATIVE TESTS; CONFORMANCE TESTING; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RELATIVE STRENGTHS; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; USABILITY EVALUATION METHODS; USER-TESTING; WALKTHROUGH; WEB ACCESSIBILITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 62949170006     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414471.1414494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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