Web accessibility: A longitudinal study of college and university home pages in the northwestern United States

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 108-114

  Thompson, Terrill ^a   Burgstahler, Sheryl ^a   Moore, Elizabeth J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Applied Inference   (United States)

Author keywords

Disabilities; Longitudinal; Web accessibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISABLED PERSON; HUMAN; INTERNET; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; INTERNET; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 77649290256     PISSN: 17483107     EISSN: 17483115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17483100903387424     Document Type: Article

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