Overview of the TIDE-CAPS project

The CAPS consortium, funded by EC´s TIDE programme started from the idea that the access to the information society by a significant group of handicapped and elderly persons, who have difficulty in accessing the printed word and/or electronic information (reading impaired persons) should be guaranteed to a much larger extent. Within the CAPS project a computer independent, ISO-standardised system for text formatting (the European Interchange Format based on SGML) has been developed to increase text accessibility for a large group of reading impaired persons. In this paper details are given on the current CAPS results placed in the context of other related initiatives (ICADD, Electronic libraries). Finally the new activities for the next CAPS phase are described