Traversing the web: Mobility heuristics for visually impaired surfers

Proceedings - 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 200-208

  Harper, Simon ^a   Goble, Carole ^a   Stevens, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MOBILITY MODEL; PLUG-INS; VIRTUAL SPACES; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS; WEB USE;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84946123720     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WISE.2003.1254483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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