U.S. state government websites demonstrate better in terms of accessibility compared to federal government and commercial websites

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 484-490

  Yu, Daihua Xie ^a   Parmanto, Bambang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

People with disabilities; Visually impaired persons; Web accessibility; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053606311     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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