Welcome to the Alternative Media Access Center
The Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC) is committed to removing barriers for individuals with disabilities
by improving the human condition through technology in academic and workplace environments.
Incubated at the Georgia Institute of Technology, one of the nation’s top
research universities, AMAC provides products and services to universities and colleges, government organizations,
non-profit entities, and private corporations at competitive or reduced costs.
Featured News
AMAC has a new solution to make providing accommodations for most of your students and clients who are deaf or hard-of-hearing better, easier, and nicer. Beginning Summer 2012, AMAC members will have additional accommodation options for students and clients who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. AMAC is currently building a team of highly knowledgeable and trained captionists to assist you in providing access to audio environments such as classrooms, meetings, labs, and access to various media formats used in these environments.
Georgia Tech's Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA) is hosting an Open House on April 17th from 6 to 9 PM. A few of the many presentations include "the accessible aquarium project, social networking to help students with disabilities succeed in STEM programs, universal design projects at Atlanta airport, accessible voting systems, innovations in wheeled mobility" and more. It will be a fun, interactive, and informative event. If you're in the Atlanta area, please come by! Find out more and RSVP at this link.
One of the many ways that AMAC helps students succeed is by converting printed textbooks to accessible e-textbooks. AMAC's highly skilled production team uses cutting edge equipment and software to produce alternative text in formats that meet the needs of a wide variety of students.
AMAC would like to introduce you to a prototype mobile app called BrailleTouch. Georgia Tech researchers have built an app for touch-screen mobile devices that is vying to be a complete solution for texting without the need to look at your cell phone. Imagine the possibilities for braille readers.
