Enabling web users and developers to script accessibility with Accessmonkey

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 288-299

  Bigham, Jeffrey P ^a   Brudvik, Jeremy T ^a   Leung, Jessica O ^a   Ladner, Richard E ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind web users; Collaborative accessibility; End user programming; Social accessibility

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISABLED PERSON; HUMAN; INTERNET;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BLINDNESS; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; INTERNET; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 70249084931     PISSN: 17483107     EISSN: 17483115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17483100902903549     Document Type: Article

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