Collaborative web accessibility improvement: Challenges and possibilities

ASSETS'09 - Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 195-202

  Takagi, Hironobu ^a   Kawanaka, Shinya ^a   Kobayashi, Masatomo ^a   Sato, Daisuke ^a   Asakawa, Chieko ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Collaboration; Metadata; Social computing; Web

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY PROBLEMS; COLLABORATION; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; METADATA AUTHORING; MODEL-BASED; SCREEN READERS; SOCIAL COMPUTING; WEB ACCESSIBILITY; WEB PAGE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

METADATA;

EID: 72249116298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1639642.1639677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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