Web accessibility for older adults: Effects of line spacing and text justification on reading web pages

Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Petrie, Helen ^a   Kamollimsakul, Sorachai ^a   Power, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Line spacing; Older adults; Text justification; Web accessibility; Web design guidelines

Indexed keywords

LINE SPACING; OLDER ADULTS; TEXT JUSTIFICATION; WEB ACCESSIBILITY; WEB-DESIGN GUIDELINES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84887490726     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2513383.2513414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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3. National Institute on Aging/National Library of Medicine (NIA/NLM). (2002). Making your website senior friendly: A check list. Available at www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/checklist.pdf