Freedom to roam: A study of mobile device adoption and accessibility for people with visual and motor disabilities

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 115-122

  Kane, Shaun K ^a   Jayant, Chandrika ^a   Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a   Ladner, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Blindness; Diary study; Low vision; Mobile devices; Mobile phones; Motor impairment

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; DAILY LIVES; DIARY STUDY; LOW VISION; MOTOR DISABILITY; MOTOR IMPAIRMENTS; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; ON THE GO; PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES;

AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITIONS; EYE PROTECTION; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE PHONES; MOTORS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

MOBILE DEVICES;

EID: 72249121639     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1639642.1639663     Document Type: Conference Paper

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