More than meets the eye: A survey of screen-reader browsing strategies

W4A 2010 - International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility Raleigh 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Borodin, Yevgen ^a   Bigham, Jeffrey P ^b   Dausch, Glenn ^c   Ramakrishnan, I V ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

accessibility; blind; browsing strategy; screen reader; usability

Indexed keywords

LEARNING CURVES; NEW TOOLS; SCREEN READERS; USABILITY PROBLEMS; WEB CONTENT; WEB PAGE;

USABILITY ENGINEERING; WEBSITES;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 77954503103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1805986.1806005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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