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Universal accessibility as a multimodal design issue

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Zeljko Obrenovic,

Julio Abascal,

Dusan StarcevicAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 50, Issue 5

Pages 83 - 88

https://doi.org/10.1145/1230819.1241668

Published: 01 May 2007 Publication History

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Creating adaptable solutions to address diverse users and situations.

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Universal accessibility as a multimodal design issue
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
  2. Information storage systems

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