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Accessibility Testing of a Healthy Lifestyles Social Network

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2012)

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The current development of the Internet and its growing use makes it necessary to satisfy the needs of all users including those with disabilities having accessibility problems. The healthy lifestyle is increasingly important to people. The number of webpages dealing with healthy lifestyles is growing. “Webstar” healty lifestyle social network was tested by Wave Toolbar, HTML Validator, Web Developer Toolbarand WCAG Contrast Checker.

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  1. University of Pannonia, Egyetem u. 10., H-8200, Veszprém, Hungary

    Cecília Sík Lányi & Eszter Nagy

  2. Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Műegyetemrkp, 3-9, H-1111, Budapest, Hungary

    Gergely Sik

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St., 94117, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

  3. Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

  4. Institute "integriert studieren", Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Sík Lányi, C., Nagy, E., Sik, G. (2012). Accessibility Testing of a Healthy Lifestyles Social Network. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_62

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