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Bringing Popular Online Games to Monarch with PBS and Wordstock

The Monarch is a revolutionary braille device with a 10-line by 32-cell refreshable display. It supports braille, eBraille, and tactile graphics, while offering a variety of...

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MATT Connect tablet without stand showcasing the APH Microsoft Toolbox with the following apps – Dropbox, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

The MATT Connect Just Keeps Getting Better

The MATT Connect – a compact, all-in-one magnifier, distance viewer, and educational Android tablet – is flaunting some new upgrades...

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We Should Not Forget: A Black History Month Profile of Vince Male

A Museum guest blog by the Rev. Dr. Eugene A. Bourquin   Sometimes our history – our heroes – slip...

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Preserving a Panorama: A Conservation Journey

Have you ever stored something rolled up? Maybe that poster you bought at a concert years ago that you tucked...

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Making Graphics for PixBlaster and PageBlaster

Tactile graphics are an important tool in the tactile literacy toolkit, and there’s so much to them that it’s hard...

Close up photo of an embossed tactile graphic of a map of the southeastern US states. The lines between states are high relief dots while the areas within the states are low relief dots.

APH Behind the Scenes: How Tactile Graphics are Made

Tactile graphics make visual concepts accessible by providing tactile representations of maps, diagrams, and graphs to people who are blind...

APH Tactile Graphic Image Library logo featuring different patterns in a line below the words. One is a straight pomegranate line, then a teal dotted line, then a double stripe gold line, then a purple dashed line.

An Inside Look at the TGIL

The Tactile Graphics Image Library (TGIL) is a free online resource that puts tactile graphics at your fingertips. Teachers, students,...