6.75.4.8

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

1. A. The department adopts the NIMAS for the purpose of providing print instructional materials in alternate accessible or specialized formats to blind persons or other persons with print disabilities in a timely manner.

2. B. In consultation with representatives from educational institutions and publishers, the department shall ensure to the qualified student the provision of instructional materials that:

   (1) are deemed essential or required for student success;

   (2) meet requirements for nontextual mathematics or science instructional materials that use mathematical or scientific pictures, illustrations, graphs, charts, symbols or notations;

   (3) maintain structural integrity and meet requirements for textual descriptions of pictures, illustrations, graphs and charts; and

   (4) are available in an alternate accessible or specialized format.

3. C. The department, through its instructional materials adoption process, shall require publishers to prepare and, on or before delivery of the printed instructional materials, provide to the NIMAC electronic files containing the content of the printed instructional materials using the NIMAS for all instructional material adopted by the department after July 19, 2006.

[6.75.4.8 NMAC - N, 12-14-06]