Industrial training manuals must often convey sophisticated information to an audience with less than proficient literacy. This paper presents an overview of a hypertext-based system that can compensate for reader deficiencies, serving as an instructional tool for basic literacy skills, as well as means to making job-related information available to training populations with below average reading ability.
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