As used in the Braille Access Act [22-15-26 to 22-15-31 NMSA 1978]:
A. "alternate accessible format" means one of several alternatives to traditional print, including braille, large print and computer text files;
B. "braille" means the tactile system of reading and writing used by persons who are blind and visually impaired, as defined by the braille authority of North America;
C. "department" means the state department of public education;
D. "educational institution" means a public school or public post-secondary educational institution;
E. "instructional materials" means textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals or editions, blackline masters, transparencies, test packets, software, CD-ROMs, videotapes and cassette tapes;
F. "structural integrity" means all of the printed instructional materials, including the text of the material, sidebars, table of contents, chapter headings and subheadings, footnotes, indexes, glossaries and bibliographies. "Structural integrity" need not include nontextual elements such as pictures, illustrations, graphs or charts, though the publisher should include a brief textual description of any such nontextual element when it is practical to do so and mention of the nontextual element when a description is not practical;
G. "student" means a blind or visually handicapped person accepted, enrolled or attending an educational institution; and
H. "textbook" means a book, a system of instructional materials or a combination of a book and supplementary instructional material that conveys information to the student or otherwise contributes to the learning process, including electronic textbooks.
History: Laws 2003, ch. 313, § 3.
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