[nfb-talk] Fwd: BlindNews: NIMAS Standards Become Official

[David Andrews]

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>NIMAS Standards Become Official 
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>By D. Berkowitz 
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>The United States Department of Education has published the final NIMAS standard in the Federal Register as of today - July 19, 2006. 
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>(NIMAS = National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard)
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>LINK:
>http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml
>LINK:
>http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/
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>This is critical because a law does not become a LAW until it's formal publication in this very central Federal document*. It's publication now starts the clock for deadlines connected with the statute.
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>For you information junkies, the NIMAS 1.1 final specification is posted on the NIMAS-CAST website with related updates. 
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>LINK:
>http://nimas.cast.org/
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>* In my youth I worked as a motorcycle courior in DC - law firms would have staff at their front doors eagerly awaiting the couriors to arrive with the books hot off the presses from the GPO. 
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>LINKS: Web version of the regulations
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>http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/06-6340.htm
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>PDF version of the regulations
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>http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/06-6340.pdf
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>posted by D. Berkowitz @ 4:41 PM