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Utah
Instructional Materials for Students with a Disability: duty of a publisher or manufacturer to provide instructional materials in an electronic format to an institution of higher education
Utah Code 53H-7-801 to 53H-7-803
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Disclosure
What it requires
- If you publish or manufacture printed instructional material for students attending a Utah institution of higher education, provide the institution with the material in an electronic format mutually agreed upon with the institution, and provide it in ASCII text, preserving as much of its structural integrity as possible, if good faith efforts fail to produce an agreement (Utah Code 53H-7-802(1)(a) and (1)(c)).
- Make the computer files or electronic versions maintain the structural integrity of the printed material, be compatible with commonly used braille translation and speech synthesis software, and include corrections and revisions as may be necessary (Utah Code 53H-7-802(1)(b)).
- Provide the files at no additional cost and in a timely manner, on receipt of a written request that certifies the purchase of the printed material for a student with a disability, certifies the student's disability and the course in which the student is enrolled, and is signed by the institution's coordinator of services for students with disabilities or the official responsible for monitoring Americans with Disabilities Act compliance (Utah Code 53H-7-802(2)).
- If you publish or manufacture nonprinted instructional materials for students attending a Utah institution of higher education, provide computer files or other electronic versions on the same terms once technology is available to convert them to a format that maintains structural integrity and is compatible with braille translation and speech synthesis software (Utah Code 53H-7-802(5)).
- Honor and respond to only those requests for instructional materials that the board's designated center submits to you, if the board has established centers to process requests (Utah Code 53H-7-803(4)).
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What this law does
A person that publishes or manufactures printed instructional material for students attending an institution of higher education must provide it to the institution in an electronic format mutually agreed upon by the publisher or manufacturer and the institution. The electronic files must maintain the structural integrity of the printed material, be compatible with commonly used braille translation and speech synthesis software, and include corrections and revisions as may be necessary.
The files must be provided at no additional cost and in a timely manner, on receipt of a written request that is signed by the institution's coordinator of services for students with disabilities or the official responsible for monitoring compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
A person that publishes or manufactures nonprinted instructional materials for students attending an institution of higher education must provide electronic versions on the same terms, once technology is available to convert them. The publisher or manufacturer of instructional material is required to honor and respond to only those requests submitted through a designated center that the board establishes to process requests for electronic versions.
Instructional material, for the part, means textbooks and other materials written and published primarily for use by students in postsecondary instruction that are required or essential to a student's success in a course of study in which a student with a disability is enrolled. The publisher duty for printed instructional material applies on or after . Senate Bill 1001 of the 2025 First Special Session renumbered section 53B-23-103 as section 53H-7-802.
House Bill 192 of the 2006 General Session enacted the Instructional Materials for Disabled Students Act. House Bill 192 of the 2006 General Session took effect on .
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