Visually impaired users on an online social network

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3133-3142

  Wu, Shaomei ^a   Adamic, Lada ^a  

^a FACEBOOK   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; Social media; Social networking sites; Vision disability; Visually impaired users

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMAN REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

FACEBOOK; FRIENDSHIP NETWORKS; GENERAL POPULATION; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84900433162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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