Eligibility Requirements

• Students must provide Disability Support Services with documentation of a disability verifying the need for alternative print formats.
  
  

Student Responsibilities

• Students must submit official "Requests for Texts in Alternative Formats" within one week after pre-registration each quarter.
  
  
• If a student discovers mid-quarter that s/he needs a text that was not originally required by the instructor, the student should notify Disability Support Services immediately. The student and/or Disability Support Services may request an extended due-date from the course instructor.
  
  
• If a textbook is not available in alternative format the student needs to buy a copy of the text and submit it to the DSS office for taping or copying. There are times when a text may be available from another source (i.e., an extra instructor's copy), but there is no guarantee.
  
  
• Students must submit a request for taped textbooks four (4) weeks in advance, or the text may not be available in alternative format at the beginning of the new quarter.

Disability Support Services' Responsibilities

• As soon as Disability Support Services receives students' Requests for Texts in Alternative Print Formats, text orders will be placed with RFB&D. For those texts not available through RFB&D, local readers will be hired to put texts onto audiotape, and alternate measures will be taken to accommodate those needing brailled and large print texts.
  
  
• Priority will be given to those students requresting taped materials within the scheduled deadline.
  
  
• Late requests will be considered only after reviewing availability of resources, staff and materials, and if there is sufficient time to complete the taping.