Objective
HARMONY aims to promote the use of structured documents within the publishing community in order that the quality and quantity of documents accessible documents.
The HARMONY Horizontal Action is a follow up to the two previous CAPS projects (TP 136 and TP 218). Within HARMONY the Consortium will try to increase the quantity and the quality of documents accessible to the print disabled. To accomplish this goal, the publishing community will be stimulated by means of involvement and lobbying with standardisation being a key issue.
The use of the ISO Standard SGML (Standard Generalised Markup Language, ISO 8879) will be encouraged. The HARMONY Consortium expects to stimulate an increase in accessible newspapers through the use of the European Interchange Format (EIF) developed in CAPS, and other SGML based techniques. Publishers will be urged to introduce and incorporate these techniques within their organisations.
By using the CAPS Information Access Model, the creation of new entry-points to the rehabilitation market will be facilitated. Through standardisation HARMONY wishes to increase the participation of the information suppliers in the resulting increased market.
Technical Approach : Actions towards newspaper publishers and editors, and service providers will be initiated to increase the accessibility of their information. A platform for discussion and co-operation will be created on a European and world wide scale. By this means, the HARMONY Consortium will try to remove the obstacles inhibiting availability of information to the print disabled user, thereby enabling a dramatic growth of accessible information.
Technical support will be provided for the promotion strategy. The EIF will be further maintained and updated - the breakthrough of the EIF is closely related to the support that can be provided to new users. New developments in the SGML field will be closely followed.
By keeping in close contact with organisations such as ICADD (International Committee on Accessible Document Design) and standardisation organisations, the Consortium will promote the needs of people with print disabilities by putting forward its ideas for incorporation in new standards.
A workshop on accessibility of documents will be organised in 1996 and will be a focal point for the dissemination of the results of the HARMONY action.
Impact and Expected Results : The Consortium's concern that there is still little written information available to people with print disabilities compared to the non impaired population is one of the main problems to be tackled.
Through the HARMONY Information Dissemination Plan, the Consortium hopes to reach as many involved and interested persons and organisations as possible in the promotion of the use of structured texts, particularly newspapers.
HARMONY intends to convince publishers and suppliers to use and provide documents in an accessible format for the print disabled.
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3001 Leuven-Heverlee
Belgium
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