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>> OK. So typically, hopefully everybody can see my screen.
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And Leslie is also entering that into the chat where you can retrieve it,
and that is where both the PowerPoint for today's webinar as well as the link
to the recording for today will be made available within the coming week.
So, welcome to the topic today which is American Printing House for the Blind.
This is a webinar continuing series for AEM State contacts and NIMAC coordinators.
The NIMAC and the AEM Center have been collaborating on this series of webinars
to support our AEM State contacts and NIMAC coordinators.
We've had a series.
Originally, it was going to be a series of three.
We have extended that to three more so that we could accommodate some customized webinars
from accessible media producers that are integral to making sure that students
with disabilities have their print materials converted into the formats
that they need in a timely manner.
So today, it's a pleasure to have American Printing House for the Blind join us.
We have Kate Herndon and Jane Thompson who are going to walk us through how to use the APH
for giving materials particularly in braille and large print, I believe.
I'm going to learn a lot today too.
So, I'm going to stop sharing and I hand it over to Jane and Kate.
>> Great. Thanks Cynthia.
And this is Nicole.
Before we get into the presentation while Kate is loading up the PowerPoint,
I just want us to know that Kate will kind of be starting us off.
She's the director of Educational Product Research.
She's going to talk a little bit about the products that APH offers.
And then Jane Thompson, who is the director of Accessible Tests and Textbooks,
will provide us some information about the variety of accessible formats that APH produces
and also how you can obtain those materials.
So, I'll turn it over to Kate and we can get started.
>> Great, thank you guys all for being here.
I'm excited to tell you a little bit, just a brief overview about products at APH.
I oversee a portion of the research department in all.
There's three arms of the research team.
There's 60 employees or around 60 employees and we encompass project leaders and support staff
that they work with to oversee products that are in development.
We have engineers, software developers, mechanical engineers and just a whole variety
of folks on our team to help us with the product development here.
We put out about 35 to 40 products each year-- new products each year.
And overall, we have around 1,500 products in our catalog.
So, a lot of things available primarily focused on our mission which is provide products
and services to people who have visual impairment.
But there's a lot of overlap with a lot of our products that serve a lot--
the educational needs of many students in the classroom,
not just the students with visual impairment.
And we'll talk a little bit more about that in a few minutes.
So, we provide products for education, for work, for independent living, for ages birth to five,
and for aging related vision loss.
So, we cover the gamut with the products that we're developing here.
We take product ideas from anyone, and over 85% of the products that we make are coming
from ideas that people have sent us and not from ideas that we came up with on our own.
So if you ever have ideas, you're welcome to share them with us.
So, we provide tools for education access in all of these different areas,
core curriculum subjects, physical education, recreation, educational assessments,
braille literacy, early childhood and early literacy, multiple disabilities,
career education and transition, self-determination, orientation and mobility,
daily living, social skills, tools for accommodation and visual efficiency.
Something-- I just realized that I don't see the chat window as we're going through this.
So if there are questions along the way, I don't--
I'm not seeing them, maybe just stop me and let me know.
>> Yes, we will--
>> If you don't mind.
>> Yes, both Leslie and I are monitoring.
And we also have another AEM technical assistant specialist with us Luis Perez.
So, you are well covered, will be assured too.
>> Awesome.
Feel free to interrupt with questions as we go on.
I don't mind taking them at anytime.
>> OK. Great.
>> OK. Thanks.
The types of materials that we're making in the research department are books, large print
and braille, physical products, assistive technologies, software,
apps for mobile technologies and actions and skills for voice assistant devices.
That one is relatively new for us, but we do have some in testing right now.
So, this is an example of one of our core curriculum products.
Building on Patterns is considered one of our flagship products at APH.
It is a primary literacy program designed
to teach beginning braille users all language art including reading, writing and spelling.
So, this is for kids aged kindergarten through second grade who are learning to read
and learning braille at the same time.
So, the idea is that they get everything we need to know to be readers, so that in third grade,
they can move into a regular curriculum with other kids in their classroom to be ready
for standardized testing at the end of third grade.
We are currently working on our prekindergarten addition and hope to see
that coming out in the next school year.
MATT Connect is a relatively new product.
It's assistive technology video magnifier with Android tablet combined,
has distance viewing and it fits in a backpack.
This is an example of assistive technology that APH puts out.
We also have handheld magnifiers, refreshable braille displays,
a variety of different kinds of assistive tech.
I just have a picture here of the Woodcock Johnson IV.
We provide it in braille and large print.
And this is an example of one of the educational assessments that we make available
to students with visual impairment.
We do some other ones right now.
We're working on the Brigance, Key Math and the [inaudible].
Graphiti is-- This is a picture of a Graphiti and it's attached to TI-84 calculator.
This is an example of some, you know, blue sky research that we do here.
It's a full page graphics-- refreshable graphics display.
I was going to show you a video, but I don't think the sound is going
to work in this webinar format.
So, I'm going to skip the video for now.
But the idea with this product which is [inaudible] testing is that it can connect
to computers or other devices and display in realtime a tactile version
of whatever is on the other device.
One of the things we're looking at is how to connect this to a student's computer.
So with digital textbooks, all the images as JAWS or NVDA, whatever the reader is that goes
through the textbook, the images will pop up on the Graphiti live as they move
through a book or through a test.
That's kind of the ultimate goal with this.
So here, you see it's connected-- Mm-hmm?
>> I was just going to say that you should be able to show this video.
You would just need to stop--
>> OK, I'll try it.
>> Yeah. You just need to stop sharing your presentation and you share the media player
that you'll be using to show your video.
>> OK. I'm just not sure how the sound is going to pick up.
>> Usually, it works.
Usually, it works well.
>> OK, awesome.
Great.
>> Give it a try.
>> I will give it a try.
Let's do it.
So, I just realized that there's no audio description in this video.
So, let me just tell you what's happening here.
It's the front lawn of American Printing House on August 21st when we had the eclipse.
We invited the community to come and participate with us to view the eclipse.
And-- Well, right next door to the Kentucky School
for the Blind, all the kids came over also.
And we had the Graphiti out.
We had it connected to a camera that was taking live pictures of the eclipse
and presenting that on the Graphiti.
And about every minute to two minutes, it was updating what was going
on to show the crescent of the sun.
So, that's what you'll see here, peoples' reactions
to touching the sun if I can figure out.
No.
Are you seeing this?
>> No. Nope, it's not coming through.
We say you click on the link, but we're not seeing the video.
>> Mm-hmm.
>> Yeah. Luis-- I think Luis found the link to the chat--
the link to the video and he dropped it in the chat.
Oh, Leslie found it.
Leslie put it.
So, it's the 1:18 p.m. link.
The Touch the Sun video that Leslie just dropped, it's a YouTube link.
So, our participants can link to that.
We'll also, you know, make sure that that's available on the events page.
In the meantime, we have a question about Graphiti,
and it's from Kristal [assumed spelling], can the Graphiti be connected to an iPad?
>> Not yet.
Right now, we're-- it's only connecting via ports because it's non-prototype.
We're hoping that it will have HDMI connectivity, that's part of the plan.
I don't know that it's going to have Bluetooth connectivity because if we want to use it
in testing situations, there might be restrictions around that.
So at the moment, HDMI connectivity is the plan.
>> Great. Thank you.
Thanks for your question, Kristal.
>> Yeah. So like I said, we-- most of our kids are in mainstream classrooms,
and they are learning right alongside typically sighted peers.
And a lot of the kids we're serving have other disabilities.
So when we develop products, we're thinking about the various needs
that our students are going to have.
And so we, you know, recognize that we need to be thinking about CVI, we need to be thinking
about additional disabilities like cognitive impairment or motor skills.
>> You might want to just define CVI.
>> Oh, CVI is cortical or cerebral visual impairment which means
that there's no ocular impairment, there's a neurological impairment.
So, the eye functions just fine.
It's something in the brain where the processing of the eye is taking in is
where the impairment is occurring.
And so, there's more habilitation and rehabilitation opportunities with that.
But often, kids who have CVI have other disabilities.
So just a few examples of products that are getting used by other populations of kids,
DNA twist is-- in one our series, we have DNA twist, DNA/RNA kit, protein synthesis kit.
So, it goes through the whole process, but it's a model that twists from flat to double-helix,
the rungs use various colors and textures to convey the base-pairing rules,
and it provides hands-on learning to all students in the classroom.
So if you have a student the, you know, really does benefit from tactile
or visual three-dimensional object hand-on activities,
this is really good for all kinds of kids.
Joy Player is a independent music and listening player.
It's got big buttons.
We have caps that you put over the buttons
so that you can minimize how many buttons a child has to choose from.
It attaches via Velcro strap to work trays or, you know, wheelchair trays.
The slot is really large.
So if the person doesn't have a lot of fine motor skills, they can hold the cassette player
and push it in and get it into the right spot.
Well, it gives a person some independent choice making.
And we found that [inaudible] with a lot of different people.
A Math Flash for Google Home is about to come out.
This is one of our first that we have for a voice-assisted device.
It's just math drill cards that anyone can use.
And then Slapstack Math for iOS, it's kind of like a Slapjack card game but with--
before basic math functions-- or math operation.
There's a picture here of some adult playing it and having more fun
than they should, doing basic math operations.
They-- The way that it works is you use sound activities, so clapping, stomping, hooting or,
you know, yodeling and having different sound activities for different answers.
So, you could have-- you know, you've got to yodel if the answer
to the operation is 6 and stomp if the answer is 3.
And then, it cycles through all the different problems and you compete
to see who's going to be the fastest, a lot of fun.
It's free.
The voice assistant device one will be free also.
So, these are just some different examples.
One more, Reach and Match is a sensory play mat.
It's got braille on it.
It's very socially inclusive.
It comes with the whole series of games and activities
for all kinds of kids to play together.
The person who developed it initially developed it for students with-- on the autism spectrum.
She added in the braille and the textures so that all kids could participate.
And this is a mat.
It's very large, kids can sit on it, they can put it in different configurations,
you can actually build it up into three-walled little house and each of the pieces that come
with it have color, texture, large braille and sound.
So as you shake it, you get a different sound for each of the different colors and textures.
So, you can match sound and texture and do a lot of matching with it.
So, that is quite fun to give you a quick overview of what we do
with our product development and-- so you have a sense of the things that we make available.
You're welcome at any time.
So, check out our shopping site which is shop.aph.org.
You're welcome to contact me with any questions you have about products, anything we might have
for a particular student, happy to help you out.
My name is Kate Herndon, and my email address is kherndon which is K-H-E-R-N-D-O-N@aph.dot.org.
So with that, I'm going to hand it over to Jane who's going
to give you what she really came here for, textbook information.
>> Oh, we just-- Kate, before you go, there's a question that came in.
And we can also pause.
If anybody else has some questions for Kate before we move on to textbooks
from APH, now would be great time.
Of course, you can ask those questions anytime between now and the end of the webinar,
but consider throwing in some questions or comments about Kate's presentations
and products from APH before we move on.
Sarah is asking, does APH do a trial period for any of their products?
>> We don't.
We do have a lot of trainings out in the field.
So if Sarah will let me know where she is
and if there's a particular product she's interested in, in the next time we have people
in her town or near here town, then we can try and connect and have those products on display.
>> Great. Well, Sarah, I can tell you, is in Columbus, Ohio.
I just--
>> Oh, that's not very far from us.
>> That's right.
And-- Go ahead.
>> So also, we field test all of our products when they're in development.
So if you have students that fit the primary audience for that product, then we can add you
to our field tester list and you can see-- you can be part of the field test.
So if you're interested in that, let me know and we can get you set up there.
So, you just contact me, just email me
or let me also give you my phone number then we can talk more about it.
My phone number is 502-899-2234.
>> Thank you.
Another question, this one from Kristal.
And before I say that, I just want point
out that Leslie just recorded Kate's phone number in the chat.
Crystal is asking, can we share the videos and training sessions with our teachers?
>> Oh yeah, that's fine, fine with me.
Yeah. And if there's more information you're looking
for to share with teachers, we have a lot.
We have a field services team that's run by Janie Blome,
and that's what they do all day long is help teach teachers of how to use APH products
and how to work with kids as much us they need support.
We have a whole series of quick tip videos and they are on YouTube
under the American Printing House for the Blind page on YouTube.
There's well over 100, and each one of those is two to five minutes,
just giving you a basic introduction to products.
>> And another question, this one from Kimberly,
are all of these items available with quota funds?
>> Everything I showed you is either available with quota funds or is in development.
And so while it's in development, we don't know.
I don't know about Graphiti because it's still a really exploratory product, but everything else
that I showed you is available with quota fund for free.
>> Great. OK.
Thank you Kate, and thank you attendees for those great questions.
All right.
Jane, moving on with textbooks.
>> OK. So, what I'm going to talk to you about is how to order accessible textbooks
from the American Printing House for the Blind and tell you a little bit
about the different styles of textbooks that we offer.
OK. There we go.
There we go.
OK. So, let me tell you a little bit about the different styles available to order.
APH provides braille and large print and digital textbook.
We offer hardcopy braille, digital braille ready files, hardcopy large print
and two different styles that are in hardcopy.
One is what we call the APH traditional enlargement textbook
and the other is the APH Large Print textbook,
and I'll give you more details on those in just a moment.
And then, the digital accessible large print file
and digital-- actually digital braille file.
So, there are a lot of different options for you, the different kinds of textbooks.
So, how do you order an accessible textbook from APH?
It's really very simple.
The first thing that we ask is that you check the Louis database
of accessible materials that's on the APH website to ensure
that it hasn't already been put into braille.
We do not duplicate effort.
If someone else has already put something in braille, we don't put it into braille.
There's not enough resources in the country to put everything in braille multiple times.
And so if it's already available by someone else,
we would ask you to purchase it from someone else.
Then we ask to have you check and make sure that the file is in the NIMAC.
And if the NIMAS file is available, we would ask you to release that to APH
so that we could use it to produce your braille textbook.
Then, you would go to the APH website, to aph.org/testsandtextbooks
to download the appropriate order form.
We have an order form there for braille and for large print.
So you would download if you're ordering for braille the braille order form.
And then, you submit the completed information on that along
with your federal quota or purchase order form.
We also ask that you send to us a photocopy of both the front and the back cover
of the textbook, and the front and the back of the title page.
And we do that because we order the print textbook for you and we want to make sure
that we have the exact textbook that you're holding in your hand when we order it
because we have found that sometimes, there's little differences between the textbook
and we want to make sure we have the exact one for you.
OK. So, where do you send this?
Well, it's real easy.
If you're ordering a braille textbook, you're going to email your order
and all your packet to brailletextbooks@aph.org.
And if you're ordering large print textbooks, you submit those orders to largeprint@aph.org.
And yes, people still do use a fax machine, that's quite amazing.
We get a lot of fax orders for sure at APH.
So, you can also fax your document to us directly in our department at 502-899-2219.
So, when are you going to get your book?
Well, that's a really great question.
And what we're going to tell you is that as soon as we receive your order,
you're going to get a confirmation email from us within 48 hours or sooner that says, thank you,
we have received your textbook order and have begun processing it.
Then within about 14 days, you will receive an estimated delivery day.
And really, those 14 days give enough time to order the print textbook
so that we can see exactly what's in that textbook and we can take
into consideration the subject matter of the particular code that you order,
the format of the book and the complexity of the book depending on the graphic content
and what APH capacity is at the time of the order.
So for example, if you ordered a textbook in January, you would--
and it was a literary textbook, literature, spelling, social studies,
you could have the first few volumes within probably three months.
If you ordered it during textbook crunch season, it might take a little longer.
So, we always encourage folks to send their textbook orders in early.
OK. So, there's braille textbook.
OK. So, braille textbook can be ordered-- we have a few specific things that we need
when you get an order-- when you order a textbook.
If you're ordering a brand new title that has never been ordered before,
we do have a five-year copyright restriction.
And the reason that we have that copyright restriction is because we have limited funds.
So, we really can't afford to go back
and do a 15-year-old textbook which they still order those.
A 15-year-old textbook, we really would prefer to stay within a five-year frame--
timeframe so that we can do the most current textbooks out there.
OK. So you can-- And so if it's brand new textbook, it's five-year restriction,
but you can always go and order out of our collection of textbooks
that are already transcribed, and you can find those on the Louis database
of accessible materials on the APH website.
You can also go to the APH File Repository and you can download braille textbook files.
So, the braille ready files are available for download
that can be embossed locally and/or be used on refreshable braille display.
With those, because so many of our textbooks are full of graphics,
you can also order a graphic packet, the matching graphics that go
with that textbook that you download.
So, you would download the file from the repository and have it practically instantly.
But order the graphic packet and we will run the graphic and ship those to you
and then you can interlace them into the textbook when you are ready to use it.
Those also were listed in the-- in Louis.
So, let's talk about large print textbook options.
APH has grown with their options on large print textbooks over the many years.
We started out with the APH traditional enlargement process that has grown.
Let's talk about the enlargement process first.
You can order any textbook to be created
in the APH traditional enlargement process with no copyright restriction.
So, it can be an old book or a newer book, and this is called a make to order.
So, it's a brand new book that's never been created in large print or enlargement before.
The traditional APH enlargement is printed on 11 and a half by 14 inch paper.
It is in full color and this book is really-- it is what it--
it is exactly how it look when you open up a regular-- a standard print textbook.
So, it's just stretched.
It is enlarged.
It is not put into large print.
So that means when it's enlarged, we can usually get it up to about a 14 point font size,
larger in some cases depending on the grade level of that book
and the original font size in the original text.
This is a picture of-- that just shows visually what the size difference is
between our two textbook process.
So, the enlargement is the larger book that you see on your screen,
and in front of it is the newer process which is the large-- APH Large Print process.
The APH large print process is really an exciting textbook and it is in--
it is large print in standard textbook size.
So, students really actually prefer to carry those books around rather the enlarged ones.
But you can order this textbook title to be created in the APH Large Print process.
It does have a five-year copyright restriction.
You can also order at either in hardcopy large print
or you can order it as a digital file online.
The APH Large Print process results a large print textbook in standard textbook size
as I mentioned with a variety of font sizes with a minimum
of 18 point font size and in full color.
Eighteen point font size is true large print.
The other process that I mentioned,
the traditional enlargement, I mentioned that's 14 point.
So, you can see we can stretch some as big as we can.
But to get true large print, this would be the process you would require.
This process takes into consideration a research from APH,
and it is from the APH Large Print Guidelines for Optimal Readability and it was field tested
by the University of Louisville with students with low vision.
The next slide is a picture of that large print.
So, you can see it's laid out differently.
It is a single column textbook.
It doesn't have a variety of column.
You will see that there are no sidebars.
Sidebars are actually turned and put into the text where it belongs for consistent reading.
Those sidebars are put into text boxes so that
when you see the text box, you know that it is a side bar.
So, that's a visual indication.
It has large print page numbers as well as standard textbook page numbers.
So if a student was in a classroom with [inaudible] students and low vision students,
the teacher could say turn to page 500.
And if she doesn't say large print page number,
they can still find that page number on this book.
They can follow along easily, but they also have the large front page numbers as well if they're
in a classroom with other students.
This process also takes into consideration footnotes.
And in the matter where the footnotes are always so small, they are also an 18 point minimum
and they are put into a text box so that the student sees the image and then can tell
that the footnote under it is the footnote because it is in a text box.
And there is a sample of that large print process on our website if you'd
like to take a look at it and download it for yourself.
The digital large print options that are available from APH, you can--
many of the large print digital files in APH File Repository can be downloaded.
They are accessible PDFs that can be read on iPad, Kindle,
desktop computers and other devices.
Many of the files also include image descriptions.
Thousands and thousands and thousands of image descriptions are in--
are large print textbooks which allow screen readers to get more information
from their textbook, from the textbook files that they download as well.
And the last slide I have is just showing the APH large print textbook on an iPad.
What-- As a low vision person myself, what I really appreciate about the digital file is
that the images, I can use the Zoom feature on my iPad and really look
at the images very clearly, and that's really exciting for me.
So, APH textbooks can be ordered in hardcopy or in digital.
They can be ordered in braille or large print or digital
and we can give these orders to you all in a timely manner.
Our goal always is to deliver quality textbooks in a timely manner, and that always depends
on receiving timely orders from people.
So if you have any other question about textbooks, I'm happy to answer those.
>> Great. Well, thanks so much Jane.
And I just also wanted to kind of wrap up by letting folks know
that if you have any questions, there was a question earlier on about quota funds
and products for example and I wanted to be sure that everybody knew that, you know,
APH is kind of a special institution in terms of the way
that it's funded through the federal government.
And if you have in your student population that you served directly, if you have students
who are blind or visually impaired, you want to make sure that you're connected
with the ex officio trustee of APH for your state because those are the folks
who manage the quota funds for your state.
They can help you out if you have any questions about making a student eligible,
to be able to order materials on behalf of that student you can quota fund.
So that directory, I've included the link in the PowerPoint and it's on the APH website.
So, thank you.
So, any other question?
>> No other questions have come into the chat, but everybody is still here.
Here's one form Bill.
If you order a textbook and say print, do you automatically also have access to use it
in digital format on a device if available for that student?
>> So if you order a textbook in print-- whether it's braille or large print,
you will-- you can order it either way.
You can order it as hardcopy or you can order it as digital.
They are available both for purchase.
So if you ordered the hardcopy braille, you would get hardcopy braille but you could go
into the APH File Repository and download the braille ready file for a small fee, yeah, $25.
And then, the-- you would order the graphic packet to go with it
if you would want the graphics with it, and you really do want the graphics with most
of our textbooks because they are so complex and those graphic packets are priced based
on how many graphics are in the textbook.
For the large print, it's the same way.
If you order large print in hardcopy, you will receive a large print textbook in hardcopy
and then you can go to the APH File Repository and you can download it for a fee as well
or you can just order the digital copy and download it when it's available.
>> And Kristal has followup question on that.
She's asking if those fees can be paid with quota funds.
>> Absolutely.
All textbooks can be paid for with quota funds or with purchase orders.
And just-- also just sort of clarification, when you order an embossed braille textbook,
the tactile graphics automatically come with that.
It's just that you will purchase those separately if you were to get the digital file
because through the BRF file, if you get the BRF file for the APH braille textbook
from the file repository, obviously that is just the text and not the images, not the graphics.
So-- But if you actually order the embossed braille,
then all of those tactiles are automatically included.
>> And I have a question.
Because I know that you all do a really high quality job with your graphic descriptions
and I always wondered what process that you go through and a lot
of people don't appreciate just how complex a process it is to describe images.
And if you would just say a few words about that and APH's process, you know,
just to give everybody a deeper appreciation for where those descriptions come from.
>> OK. Well, there are not a great deal of guidelines
on writing image descriptions especially when we're talking about math and science,
but APH has created kind of within our department some guidelines
on how we write the image descriptions.
They are written by staff who have education that runs the gamut from every subject matter
that we do and we are very careful not to give any answers to any questions that are
in surrounding information of the image.
So every image not only is described, but we read all of the text around that image
to make sure that we are not giving away any answer
and that we are clearly describing what is in the picture
and not giving any personal feelings about what are in the picture.
>> Rachel writes, I would definitely attend a webinar
on graphic image descriptions and I agree.
I don't know if you all be interested in doing that, but I think that it is an area
that hasn't been explored enough by those of us who know how complex it is
to develop image descriptions [inaudible] some experience, but I think that increasingly
when we are trying to educate all content creators whether it's a developer, a publisher
or a teacher in a classroom who's developing their materials to just some
of those best practices around describing images would be a great contribution
if APH would be interested in doing that.
I agree with Rachel.
>> I couldn't agree more.
It's been a very long time since anything like this been done
and we'll definitely take that into consideration.
You're right about the complexity of the images because if you're talking
about a high school very complex perhaps world map or math or science, it is very difficult.
And sometimes, it takes two or three people to look at it, review it and quality control it,
and that's' how all of our images are written.
We write them with two reviews.
We have a person who writes it, we have a person that reviews it, and then we have a third person
that quality controls it and make sure.
So, it is a process.
>> And do you have somebody who's blind or has low vision read the description
and then explained to you what they think that image is conveying?
>> That's part of our quality control process.
We don't see that on every single one, but we definitely do it
on every book and spot check through the book.
So as a low vision person myself, I'm often the person that does that.
And then for the image descriptions that are used with screen readers, we do have a person
on that who reviews our image descriptions and our textbooks in general to make sure
that we stay consistent in high quality.
>> OK. Thank you very much.
A couple of other comments came in while we were-- while you were addressing that question,
one from Kristal's, just supplemental comment as she said, describing images,
the importance of it especially with online learning and using all text.
We know that that's a great context and setting
for which image descriptions are really important.
Leslie here at CAST, our operations coordinator, says that she's been writing image descriptions
since I started at CAST over 21 years ago and I still feel like they could use some work.
And I think that we all feel that way about image descriptions.
It never ends.
>> We agree.
>> Oh, and Luis, he just put in the chat a link to the accessibility--
accessible media guidelines that you all put out.
So, thanks Luis for doing that.
We are about 8 ahead of the hour.
So if there are other questions, please do add those now as we're wrapping up.
Leslie just added APH's contact information, telephone number, 800-223-1839, email address,
info@aph.org and website URL is aph.org.
Thank you so much to Nicole, Jane, Nicole, as well as we know
that Julia [assume spelling] from APH is also there.
Thank you so much for being here and presenting this information.
I know I learned a lot, who in the room here is so impressed
with what American Printing House has been producing.
I-- As I opened up this webinar in the introduction, I knew I was going to learn a lot
about what you all do in your services and I am--
I'm so impressed and I know that here at the AEM Center, we want to make sure that a lot
of the products that you have are also included on our AEM website.
And I think Luis was probably also thinking the same thing while he was listening in.
Some of the services, some of the products that you have, we can put those on AEM Center website
and link that because I think there are a lot of people
that realize all the valuable service and products that you have.
Leslie also just reminded everybody that the PowerPoint for today is on our website as well
as a link to the Touch the Sun video.
And we want to thank Sheila for captioning.
Thank you Leslie for putting that in the chat.
There's a survey for today that we would greatly appreciate you're filling out for us.
I just put it in the chat.
It's a SurveyMonkey survey.
The link is surveymonkey.com/r/aph_05_09_18.
And if you fill that out, give us-- NIMAC coordinators and AEM State contacts,
if you also want to give us some information
about what else would be helpful for you moving forward.
So, this the sixth of our-- in our series of webinars and this is currently the final webinar
that we have planned to deliver as part of this series.
So, we would like to continue this conversation, continue to be providing supports
to our AEM State contacts and NIMAC coordinators.
So if there are additional ways that we can support you, please include that in that survey
in addition to your feedback on this particular event, and that will give us some guidance
on where to go next with our support for you.
So, I will leave it to Nicole, Jane, Nicole to say some final words about APH and your services
and we'll end the recording and close out.
Thank you.
>> Great. Well, Kate, Jane, do you have any final words of wisdom to share?
>> No. Just please visit our website.
There are-- The website has links for of course all of the products and the Accessible Tests
and Textbooks department to give you examples and guidelines and specifications
that we work really hard to provide for free for everybody
to use, so-- and just visit our website.
Thank you so much.
>> Thanks for being on the webinar today.
And the only thing that I would add is that if you are not familiar with the variety
of APH products, you're also welcome if you send an email to info@aph.org,
the customer service department would be happy to send you a catalog
so that you can check it out that way.
Some folks prefer to look at things online,
but others like the old fashioned way of paging through.
So, either option is available to you, so.
>> If I could just add because Jane referenced several times the Louis database,
so I'll just mention the URL for that, it's L-O-U-I-S.aph.org.
>> OK. Just going to say if any of you are close by, I guess close as Columbus, Ohio,
stop in and visit us and get a full tour.
>> We have Stevie Wonder's piano [laughter].
[Inaudible].
We have a great museum.
We have a great museum.
Come and visit.
>> Well, thanks so much Cynthia.
We really appreciate giving APH the opportunity to talk a little bit
about the products and the books.
And, yup, just everybody, feel free to get in touch if we can be of any help to you.
>> Thank you, really grateful for everything that you've shared today.
I'm going to close out the recording.
And thank you everybody again for coming, and just a reminder
to please complete the evaluation and give us some feedback
on what else we can do to support you.
Have a great day.
>> Thanks so much.
Thank you.
>> Bye-bye.
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