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Braille versions of textbooks help blind college students succeed

Oct 12, 2017
The AMAC Accessibility Solutions and Research Center at Georgia Tech is one of the only braille production centers in the U.S. that caters to blind and visually impaired college students.
A page from a college-level pre-calculus textbook. Officials at the AMAC Accessibility Solutions and Research Center at Georgia Tech say they are seeing more demand from  schools for higher-level textbooks in math, science, technology and engineering fields.
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