Projects: American Printing House for the Blind

The Dot Experience

The entrance to a museum gallery about Helen Keller featuring large black and white portrait of her. At center, a large circular wall is painted a bright yellow within a wooden circular frame. Black text reads: "Helen Keller" with the sub title "To Live. To Think. To Hope," and illegible wall text below. Underneath the text is a waist-high interactive station with a tactile panel and QR code. To our left, a large black-and-white portrait of an adult Helen Keller, a white woman, fills the right half of the yellow circle. She sits in profile, wearing a fancy white dress with beaded bodice and lace cuffs. Her wavy dark hair is pinned up. A small framed photograph of the same photo hangs behind her shoulder. Beyond this entry wall are two additional galleries with touch objects and objects in glass cases.
American Printing House for the Blind

For the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), PAC authored Inclusive Design Standards, conducted design reviews, advised on wayfinding, supported community prototyping, and trained staff—shaping The Dot Experience, APH’s reimagined, multisensory museum in Louisville, centering blind storytellers.

Orion TI-84 Plus Talking Graphing Calculator

A close-up of someone with light skin tone operating a black Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus talking graphing calculator. The calculator is held in one hand while the other hand presses buttons near the directional pad. Its screen displays a graph with axes and plotted data or a function. It has many labeled buttons, including number keys, math functions, arrow controls, and graphing options. The scene appears to be on a wooden tabletop.
American Printing House for the Blind

PAC helped the American Printing House for the Blind advance the Orion TI-84 Plus Talking Graphing Calculator by testing its accessible calculator experience and advising on graph sonification, speech translation of calculator interfaces, and haptic support for exploring graphs and datasets.

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