[Blindmath] Students should know their legal rights!

[Susan Jolly]

Birkir,

Thanks for the great feedback; I agree with everything you've written.

As far as your upcoming contact with the NFB students, I hope that someone 
at the SLAM is knowledgeable about the latest laws.  It is actually illegal 
for universities and colleges in the United States to not provide accessible 
materials in a student's desired medium in a timely fashion.  Moreover, if a 
student produces class work in a standard format, such as braille, the 
university is obligated to pay the costs of converting that format to 
whatever format is required by the professor.

I can understand an individual student's reluctance to be viewed as a 
troublemaker but I believe that if a few more braille-using students were 
willing to actually sue their DSS offices when they don't meet their legal 
oblications, a lot of the current problems with lack of materials would go 
away a lot more quickly!

Susan