The document discusses the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) which provides a technical standard for publishers to produce electronic files in XML format that can be converted into specialized formats like Braille, audio, and digital text to provide students with print disabilities access to instructional materials. It also outlines who qualifies for materials produced from NIMAS files, resources available from the AIM Center including their website, publications, and tools to support the use of accessible instructional materials.

1. AIM and Digital Text in Policy & Practice SETSIG Forum, ISTE 2010 Denver, Colorado Thanks to Chuck Hitchcock, Chief Officer of Policy and Technology and Joy Zabala, Director of Technical Assistance, AIM Center @ CAST, Inc. for their content contributions.

3. Legal Definition (IDEA 2004)National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard… to be used in the preparation of electronic files… solely for efficient conversion into specialized formats.

5. Embossed

6. Digital .brf

7. Audio

8. Large Print

9. Digital Text Digital Talking Books (DAISY) HTML eBooks ASCII files Word and Rich Text files PDF Etc. What are Specialized Formats?

11. Timely delivery of accessible textbooks

12. Appropriate formats and quality of AIM

13. Breaks down one barrier to the general education curriculum

14. Increases independence of learner

15. Educators

16. Reduces duplication of effort – scanning, time, money

17. Timeliness Increases likelihood specialized formats are available when needed

18. Increases awareness of what is available and how to use it

19. Publishers

20. Consistency – moves away from 50 States = 50 sets of requirements

21. Copyright issues – digital rights

22. Multiple outputs possible from same source file

23. Market model possible for NIMAS files – new customersProblems addressed by NIMAS

26. Old site remainsa while longer

27. http://nimas.cast.org

28. with notice on home

29. later with redirects to new site

30. New website:

31. http://aim.cast.orgNew National Center on AIM Website

32. Sign up from AIM Website Homepage HTML Edition http://bit.ly/d5JGQv AIM Connector

33. AIM Center Twitter account http://twitter.com/aim_center AIM Center Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Center-on-AIM AIM Center Webinar & Presentation Schedule http://aim.cast.org/experience/training/presentations Other ways to connect to the AIM Center

35. What formats are available from the repository? (e.g., .txt, .rtf, .doc, .docx, .pdf, etc.)

37. AIM Navigator

38. soon

39. AIM Implementation Guide

40. Available from: http://aim.cast.orgAIM Consortium Products for All States