New York Department of Education November 4, 2009

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New York Department of Education November 4, 2009 AccessText Overview New York Department of Education November 4, 2009 Christopher Lee, Director Todd Runkle, IT Manager Bob Martinengo, Publisher Services

Agenda AccessText Overview Project Update Application Demonstration

AccessText Overview Funding provided by the Association of American Publishers (AAP), Charter Publishers including Bedford, Freeman & Worth, Cengage, CQ Press, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Wiley, WW Norton and the University System of Georgia’s Alternative Media Access Center. Publisher funding provided until June 30, 2010. Publisher members provide DSS offices and Alternate Media Centers with electronic files of textbooks for use by qualified students with disabilities. A central place for DSS and publisher collaboration on textbook accessibility issues.

AccessText Leadership The Association of American Publishers (AAP) Critical Issues Task Force (CITF) AccessText Network Development Board The University System of Georgia Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC) AccessText Advisory Committee 12 members: 7 DSS and 5 Publishers 2 alternate DSS advisory committee members Two year term for DSS members started March 1, 2009

AccessText Features A single membership verification process for DSS offices and Alternate Media Centers provides access to multiple publishers. An accessible web-based system for file and permission requests. Automatically maintains and tracks request records. Technical support, training and resources available. Federated search of multiple alternate text sources (Spring 2010). Publisher sanctioned DSS to DSS file exchange (Spring 2010).

Application Statistics Over 650 members and 6 Alternate Media Centers from 48 states and the District of Columbia. Over 3,500 requests processed with 95% fulfillment rate. Pearson accounts for 37% of all requests, Cengage 24%, McGraw-Hill 17%. Average fulfillment time is 4.5 days. PDF provided 82% of the time, Word .DOC 17%.

35 AccessText Members in New York Adelphi University Alfred University Binghamton University Buffalo State College Cayuga Community College City College New York Colgate University College of Staten Island Daemen College Dominican College Excelsior College Herkimer County Community College Hofstra University Hostos Community College Jamestown Community College Le Moyne College Marist College Medaille College Niagara University Paul Smith's College Roberts Wesleyan College St John Fisher College Stony Brook University Suffolk County Community College SUNYs: Cobleskill, Cortland, Geneseo, Institute of Technology, Potsdam Syracuse University The New School Tompkins Cortland Community College Union College University at Albany Westchester Community College

AccessText Application Demonstration Todd Runkle, IT Manager