Guideline aggregation: Web accessibility evaluation for older users

W4A 2009 - International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 127-135

  Brajnik, Giorgio ^a   Yesilada, Yeliz ^b   Harper, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Older users; Web accessibility guideline

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; TRANSPORTATION; WEB CRAWLER;

ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES; BARRIER TYPES; EVALUATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; MULTIPLE DISABILITIES; OLDER USERS; WEB ACCESSIBILITY; WEBSITE EVALUATION;

WEBSITES;

EID: 79952399207     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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