[Blindmath] Students should know their legal rights!

[Amanda Lacy]

Susan,

I was told by the manager of the OSD at my current campus that audio was 
considered accessible and that providing Braille was going above and beyond 
the obligations of that office. Is that false? This discussion involved a 
math textbook. Is it the responsibility of the school or the publisher to 
provide accessible textbooks?

Thanks,
Amanda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Jolly" <easjolly at ix.netcom.com>
To: <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 6:32 PM
Subject: [Blindmath] Students should know their legal rights!


> 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
>
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