The SGML community is perfectly aware of the benefits International Standards bring to the interchange of digital information, especially when that information is textual in form. What the same community may be less aware of is the enormous group of individuals who have no access to such information because of visual disability. This paper will describe the efforts of a European Community funded project CAPS (Communication and Access to information for People with Special needs), to use SGML and its associated standards to fulfill the belief "that advancing computer based publishing and through adaptive computer technology for persons with disabilities offers the potential to make printed information accessible simultaneously and at no greater cost than the able bodied community enjoys."The paper will go on to describe how SGML has been used to define a DTD for the European Interchange Format (EIF) to enable print disabled access to newspapers
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