Investigation of best practices for maintaining section 508 compliance in U.S. federal web sites

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6765 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 498-506

  Lazar, Jonathan ^a   Olalere, Abiodun ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

accessibility; best practices; compliance; federal; government; Section 508; Web site

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; BEST PRACTICES; COMPLIANCE; FEDERAL; GOVERNMENT; SECTION 508;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE TESTING; USER INTERFACES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 79960330782     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21672-5_55     Document Type: Conference Paper

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