Streamlining Formats, Delivering Textbooks

Incompatible file formats have become more than just a glitch to students with disabilities across the country. While the technology exists to offer students with blindness, low vision, or print disabilities access to electronic versions of textbooks, lack of a standardized format for these files have prevented a number of these resources from getting to the students who need them. This week, the Department of Education endorsed a new, voluntary standard to help solve this problem: the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS). Read more in a press release from the Department of Education and learn about the Berkman Center's K-12 Initiative to explore innovative ways to bring electronic textbooks to classrooms.

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