NIMAS is the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard contained in Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA).
The U.S. Department of Education has endorsed the NIMAS as the preferred approach for publishers to provide accessible curricular materials to students in grades K-12. Essentially, NIMAS is "a standard of guidelines for the production of digital source files for print-based materials based on XML and the DAISY Consortium's ANSI/NISO 239.86 file format standard, the purpose of which is to enable publishers and others to provide standardized source files of their content from which a variety of outputs can be produced.
NIMAS Resource Page
The goal of NIMAS is to have content reside in central repository (NIMAC) where authorized personnel can access it.
Furthermore, Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has announced the final regulations to implement Part B the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA). An official copy of the final Part B regulations of the IDEA will be published in the Federal Register on August 14, 2006. NCDAE has collected the items that pertain to NIMAS
- A summary of changes to NIMAS
- The Department of Education’s analysis of comments and change
- The final regulation, including the technical standard
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