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This paper describes on going work within the CAPS Consortium—Communication and Access to Information for People with Special Needs, a European Union funded project in the Technology Initiative for Disabled and Elderly People (TIDE) Programme—that is examining ways in which structure within electronic documents may help make those documents more accessible to people with print disabilities. The work concentrates on the production and editing of documents by people with visual impairments and considers how structured editors may be useful to them. A structured editor has been designed to test the ideas, and this is described in the paper.
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Ayres, N., Wesley, T. (1994). Using structure within electronic documents to make editors more accessible. In: Zagler, W.L., Busby, G., Wagner, R.R. (eds) Computers for Handicapped Persons. ICCHP 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 860. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58476-5_127
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