An evaluation of web accessibility metrics based on their attributes

SIGDOC 2008 - Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 73-79

  Freire, Andre P ^a   Fortes, Renata P M ^a   Turine, Marcelo A S ^b   Paiva, Debora M B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Accessibility metrics; Information accessibility; Web accessibility; Web engineering

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EVALUATION TOOL; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; INFORMATION ACCESSIBILITY; PROJECT MANAGERS; WEB ACCESSIBILITY; WEB CONTENT; WEB DEVELOPMENT; WEB ENGINEERING;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70350267854     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1456536.1456551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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