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Find information about the National Instructional Material Standard (NIMAS), including the technical specification and exemplars to guide you in developing NIMAS-conformant files.
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Guide
AEM Center at CAST, 2020
Practical information about creating a NIMAS fileset for publishers and conversion houses.
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Learn about best practices for creating NIMAS-conformant files by reviewing our exemplars and related documentation.
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Video
National AEM Center at CAST, 2024
The National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) is a special source file format that is used to produce a range of accessible formats on behalf of K-12 students with vision impairments and/or print disabilities.
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Guide
AEM Center at CAST, 2021
Best practices for preparing NIMAS filesets when textbooks are adopted or purchased.
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Learn about the NIMAS and the NIMAC, two key provision of IDEA 2004, the special education law for elementary and secondary education in the U.S.
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Adapt the provided sample language for NIMAS in your purchase orders or contracts with publishers and vendors.
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MathML is a markup language for displaying equations and other mathematical expressions. Learn about the requirements for including MathML in NIMAS filesets.
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Video
National AEM Center at CAST, 2024
Under IDEA 2004, the authority to require publishers to send files to the NIMAC is entirely in the hands of customers—states and districts. Instructional materials procurement is central to ensuring that the NIMAC will have the files for the materials your students need, when they need them.
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On May 26, 2020 the U.S. Department of Education issues a Notice of Interpretation (NOI) permitting the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC) to accept files derived from digital instructional materials.