Accessible Textbooks
ATAP Annual Conference, 2004
Association of Assistive Technology Act Programs
Hyatt Regency, St. Louis, Missouri
November 9, 2004: 10:30-12:00 Breakout Session
Accessible Textbooks: National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) and the implementation outlook.
Panelists:
- Joy Relton, J.D. American Foundation for the Blind
Email: jrelton@afb.net
Phone: 202-408-8170
- Chuck Hitchcock , Project Director, National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum (NCAC), CAST
Email: chitchcock@cast.org
Phone: 781-245-2212 ext. 233
- Steve Noble, Policy Analyst, Kentucky Assistive Technology Service Network
Email: steve.noble@ky.gov
Phone: 1-800-327-5287 x268
Outline with Resources
- Accessible Textbooks
- NIMAS
- Current Situation
- Problems we hope to address with NIMAS
- Short term (Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled or Physically Disabled – less so for learning nor cognitive disabilities)
- Long term (continued work for learning disabled, cognitive disabilities, etc)
- Possible scenario for timely production and delivery
- The Kentucky story
- The New York story (K-12 and Higher Education)
- The Washington State textbook law
- Sample Accessible Textbooks/ebooks
- Daisy books (DTB2 and DTB3)
- NIMAS XML and XSLT
- Other student ready formats from NIMAS XML
- Accessible HTML
- Embossed and Refreshable Braille
- Microsoft Word and RTF
- Microsoft Reader .lit files
- PDF Files
- ASCII Files
- Sample Readers
- NIMAS Development Center
- NIMAS Technical Assistance (TA) Center
- Protecting Copyrighted Assets (DRM and other approaches)
- What about the Future?
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