{"586341":{"#nid":"586341","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AMAC Honored as a Leader in Digital Accessibility at the United Nations","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt a United Nations event in December, AMAC Accessibility Solutions and Research Center was honored with an award for Leadership in Digital Accessibility. With over a decade of providing digital textbooks in accessible formats, AMAC\u0026rsquo;s trusted brand has been recognized internationally.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPresenting the award was longtime collaborator and AMAC partner, G3ict, the Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;To receive the award, especially in the United Nations headquarters in New York, was an honor,\u0026rdquo; said AMAC Executive Director Christopher Lee.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nProviding over 6,000 digital textbook orders in 2016, AMAC\u0026rsquo;s relationship with publishers and the internal efforts of their e-text team have made the textbook process easy and painless for students around the country. AMAC has worked hard to build relationships with publishers through the AccessText Network in order to provide accessible textbooks to students directly from the source. If the book isn\u0026rsquo;t available, the in-house e-text team is there to provide the book in a timely manner.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAMAC, a research center at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, is poised to lead the digital accessibility frontier by helping students gain access to the tools they need to succeed in higher education in alternative formats. By taking textbooks and ensuring that they are easily navigable digitally, students that couldn\u0026rsquo;t access the information before are able to receive the same opportunity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFor more information on AMAC, visit amacusg.org. For information on joining the AccessText Network, visit accesstext.org.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt\u0026nbsp;a United Nations event\u0026nbsp;in December, Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s AMAC Accessibility Solutions and Research Center was honored with an award for leadership in digital accessibility.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"AMAC Accessibility Solutions and Research Center in the College of Design was honored for its leadership in digital accessibility."}],"uid":"30501","created_gmt":"2017-01-23 20:19:42","changed_gmt":"2017-02-01 15:50:40","author":"Will Greer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"586364":{"id":"586364","type":"image","title":"AMAC Digital Accessibility","body":null,"created":"1485205576","gmt_created":"2017-01-23 21:06:16","changed":"1485205576","gmt_changed":"2017-01-23 21:06:16","alt":"AMAC staff work to convert books into digitally accessible formats.","file":{"fid":"223478","name":"BH8A5901.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/BH8A5901.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/BH8A5901.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":378952,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/BH8A5901.jpg?itok=egN7CKQ6"}}},"media_ids":["586364"],"groups":[{"id":"582211","name":"AMAC Accessibility Solutions and Research Center"},{"id":"1233","name":"CATEA - Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access"},{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"95011","name":"AMAC"},{"id":"1446","name":"digital"},{"id":"360","name":"accessibility"},{"id":"288","name":"Leadership"},{"id":"2628","name":"united nations"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWill Greer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wgreer7@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewgreer7@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["amacinfo@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}