Guidelines are only half of the story: Accessibility problems encountered by blind users on the Web

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 433-442

  Power, Christopher ^a   Freire, André Pimenta ^a   Petrie, Helen ^a   Swallow, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blind users; User evaluation; Web accessibility; Web accessibility guidelines

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY PROBLEMS; BLIND USERS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES; PROBLEM-BASED; TASK-BASED USER EVALUATION; USER EVALUATIONS; USER PROBLEMS; WEB ACCESSIBILITY; WEB CONTENT ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; WEBSITES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84862067259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2207736     Document Type: Conference Paper

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