Web accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1793-1796

  Small, Jeon ^a   Schallau, Pamela ^a   Brown, Karen ^a   Appleyard, Richard ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Cognitive disabilities; Universal access; Web content accessibility; Web design; Web navigation; Web usability evaluation

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; COGNITIVE DISABILITY; UNIVERSAL ACCESS; WEB CONTENT ACCESSIBILITY; WEB DESIGNS; WEB NAVIGATION; WEB USABILITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; NAVIGATION; WEBSITES;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 78651070586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1057024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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