Are disability-access guidelines designed for designers? Do they need to be?

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 206, Issue , 2006, Pages 357-360

  Law, Chris M ^a   Yi, Ji Soo ^b   Choi, Young Sang ^b   Jacko, Julie A ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

disability; guidelines; universal design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN GUIDELINES; END-USERS; FIELD STUDIES; PRODUCT DESIGNERS; RESEARCH STUDIES; UNIVERSAL DESIGN;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

DESIGN;

EID: 77953492966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1228175.1228244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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