Estimating dyslexia in the Web

W4A 2011 - International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Baeza Yates, Ricardo ^a   Rello, Luz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN LANGUAGE; GRAMMATICAL ERRORS; LOWER BOUNDS; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; TEXT CONTENT; WEB ACCESSIBILITY;

ERRORS; ESTIMATION; WEBSITES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 79956049030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1969289.1969300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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