NIMAS for Producers
AEM Center Notes
A May 2020 Notice of Interpretation from the U.S. Department of Education permits the NIMAC to accept NIMAS filesets created from digital materials.
Visit NIMAS Exemplars to download a fileset that illustrates the creation of NIMAS-conformant content from a digital material.
The National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) is a technical standard publishers can use to produce source files (in XML) that may be used to develop multiple accessible formats (such as Braille or audiobooks).
In addition to the technical specification, our NIMAS Exemplars provide NIMAS-conformant filesets you can inspect to learn more about best practices based on the technical specification and the DAISY Structure Guidelines.
MathML is the recommended way to represent mathematical notation in NIMAS. For more information, visit MathML in NIMAS.
Visit Resources for Publishers and Conversion Houses on the NIMAC website for additional resources related to the production of NIMAS files.
More for NIMAS File Producers
NIMAS Technical Specification
Learn about the baseline and optional elements in version 1.1 of the NIMAS Technical Specification
NIMAS Exemplars
Review exemplars that illustrate NIMAS best practices.
MathML in NIMAS
Learn about the requirements for using MathML in NIMAS filesets