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M.R. 47/2022, ss. 10-14 (educational institutions and their libraries) · Read the law's page

• If you are an educational institution, which includes a private vocational institution and an independent school, the Regulation has applied to you since May 1, 2024, whatever your number of employees (ss. 1 and 2 (b) (iv)).
• Document your accessible communication measures, policies and practices and make the documented policies publicly available, and create and document an accessible communication training policy, whatever your number of employees (ss. 3 (2) and 4 (4)).
• Make sure your educators receive accessible communication training, as well as the persons section 4 (1) names for every organization (s. 4 (1) (b)).
• Take appropriate measures to inform your employees, students, applicants and prospective applicants, and their parents and guardians, that educational materials (textbooks, supplementary learning resources, student records, and class, lesson, workshop or program descriptions, availability, scheduling and requirements) are available through a communication support or accessible format on request (ss. 1 and 10).
• On a request for educational material through a communication support or accessible format, consult the person to identify the support or format that would remove the barrier and provide the material through it in a timely manner, and if it cannot reasonably be provided that way, provide a comparable resource (s. 11 (2) and (3)).
• Do not charge a person who requests educational material through a communication support or accessible format more than you would charge a person who did not make the request (s. 11 (4)).
• If you operate a library, consider the accessibility needs of its users when procuring or purchasing library resources, which include software, and inform users of each resource currently available through a communication support or accessible format and the supports or formats available for it (ss. 1, 12 and 13).
• On a request for a library resource through a communication support or accessible format, consult the person and provide the resource through the identified support or format in a timely manner, at no greater cost than for a person who did not make the request, unless it is not technically feasible, the required technology cannot readily be obtained, it would cause undue hardship, you do not have direct control over the resource, or it relates to product labels or other product information (s. 14 (2) to (4)).