NIMAS+&+NIMAC

=NIMAS & NIMAC: Acronyms Defined=

NIMAS - National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standand NIMAC - National Instructional Materials Center

AIM - Accessible Instructional Materials AMP - Accessible Materials Provider DRM - Digital Rights Managment

LEA - Local Education Agency OSEP - Office of Special Education Programs SEA - State Education Agency

[|Chafee Amendment] - Copyright Law - An adequate layman's perspective (not too much legal-ese)

Chapter 14 - PaTTAN link to Special Education Regs - includes updates to AT: []

NIMAS - Training Materials from OSEP [|NIMAS Training]

NIMAS - How are Your Curriculum Materials Affected? []

NIMAS Exemplars [|Training XML files]

When purchasing new curriculum materials, add this verbiage to your POs for ensuring files are NIMAS-ready for your district: //(copy and paste and save in a Word document, adjust date and information in last phrase.)//

"By agreeing to deliver the materials marked with "NIMAS" on this contract or purchase order, the publisher agrees to prepare and submit, on or before __(specify date__) a NIMAS file set to the NIMAC.

Should the vendor be a distributor of the materials and not the publisher, the distributor agrees to immediately notify the publisher of its obligation to submit NIMAS file sets of the purchase products to the NIMAC. The files will be used for the production of alternate formats as permitted under the law for students with print disabilities; This is the page of__ of this contract or purchase order".