Disability and the digital divide: Gaps and future directions

Internet Issues: Blogging, the Digital Divide and Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 215-220

  Lindsay, Sally ^a,b  

^a University of Toronto   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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