About the relevance of accessibility barriers in the everyday interactions of older people with the web

W4A 2009 - International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 104-113

  Sayago, Sergio ^a   Blat, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Barriers; Ethnography; Older people; Web accessibility

Indexed keywords

WEBSITES;

ACCESSIBILITY BARRIERS; BARRIERS; COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY; ETHNOGRAPHY; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; OLDER PEOPLE; WEB ACCESSIBILITY; WEB ACCESSIBILITY BARRIERS;

MAMMALS;

EID: 85015816268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1535654.1535682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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