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Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia archive
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM on Hypertext and hypermedia table of contents

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Pages: 1 - 10

Year of Publication: 2000

ISBN:1-58113-227-1

Authors

Carole Goble	Information Management Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Simon Harper	Information Management Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Robert Stevens	Information Management Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

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SIGMOD: ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
SIGLINK: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	Yeliz Yesilada , Robert Stevens , Carole Goble, A foundation for tool based mobility support for visually impaired web users, Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web, May 20-24, 2003, Budapest, Hungary
	Simon Harper , Yeliz Yesilada , Carole Goble , Robert Stevens, How much is too much in a hypertext link?: investigating context and preview -- a formative evaluation, Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, August 09-13, 2004, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
	Yeliz Yesilada , Robert Stevens , Carole Goble , Shazad Hussein, Rendering tables in audio: the interaction of structure and reading styles, ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
	Yeliz Yesilada , Simon Harper , Carole Goble , Robert Stevens, DANTE: annotation and transformation of web pages for visually impaired users, Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters, May 19-21, 2004, New York, NY, USA
	Michail Salampasis , Christos Kouroupetroglou , Athanasios Manitsaris, Semantically enhanced browsing for blind people in the WWW, Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, September 06-09, 2005, Salzburg, Austria
	Simon Harper , Carole Goble , Robert Stevens , Yeliz Yesilada, Middleware to expand context and preview in hypertext, ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
	Martin Rotard , Sven Knödler , Thomas Ertl, A tactile web browser for the visually disabled, Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, September 06-09, 2005, Salzburg, Austria
	Simon Harper , Carole Goble , Robert Stevens, Augmenting the mobility of profoundly blind web travellers, The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, v.11 n.1, p.103-128, June 2005
	Patrizia Andronico , Marina Buzzi , Carlos Castillo , Barbara Leporini, A prototype of google interfaces modified for simplifying interaction for blind users, Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility, October 23-25, 2006, Portland, Oregon, USA
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	Yeliz Yesilada , Robert Stevens , Simon Harper , Carole Goble, Evaluating DANTE: Semantic transcoding for visually disabled users, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), v.14 n.3, p.14-es, September 2007
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	Yeliz Yesilada , Caroline Jay , Robert Stevens , Simon Harper, Validating the use and role of visual elements of web pages in navigation with an eye-tracking study, Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web, April 21-25, 2008, Beijing, China