Proposing new metrics to evaluate web usability for the blind

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1387-1390

  Fukuda, Kentarou ^a   Saito, Shin ^a   Takagi, Hironobu ^a   Asakawa, Chieko ^a  

^a IBM JAPAN LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blind; Voice usability; Web accessibility

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY EVALUATION; BLIND; BLIND PEOPLE; BLIND USERS; EVALUATION TOOL; HISTORICAL TRANSITION; INFORMATION DENSITY; PAGE STRUCTURES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL LAYOUT; USABILITY PROBLEMS; VISUAL EFFECTS; VOICE USABILITY; WEB ACCESSIBILITY; WEB CONTENT; WEB USABILITY;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

WEBSITES;

EID: 72249089977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1056923     Document Type: Conference Paper

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