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Assessing the Accessibility of Digital Television Set-Top Boxes

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Designing a More Inclusive World

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The aim of this study was to investigate the accessibility of DTV technology, focussing on the current generation of set-top boxes (STB) which provide ’free to view’ services (DTI, 2003).

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Keates, S., Clarkson, P.J. (2004). Assessing the Accessibility of Digital Television Set-Top Boxes. In: Keates, S., Clarkson, J., Langdon, P., Robinson, P. (eds) Designing a More Inclusive World. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-372-5_19

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