1. 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

2. Agenda
AccessText Overview
Project Update
Application Demonstration

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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).

6. 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%.

7. 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

8. AccessText Application Demonstration
Todd Runkle, IT Manager