Disability Resource Center
Fax: (734) 487-5784!
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Student Center Suite 240/246
Phone: (734) 487-2470
Alternative Media Process and Information
Advisor and student determine that alternative media is an
appropriate accommodation.
Students registers for free membership with Bookshare
http://www.bookshare.org/membershipOptions#IndividualMemberships
Before each semester begins, student finds textbook information for each class via
http://www.bkstr.com/CategoryDisplay/10001-9604-15453-1?demoKey=d or by emailing
the professor of the class. !
Before each semester begins, student checks Bookshare for
availability of alternative media.
If student obtains alternative media from Bookshare, the process stops here.
If student is not able to access alternative media via Bookshare, student submits the “Request for
Books/Materials in Other Format” form to the Disability Resource Center (DRC) every semester
alternative media is needed (ideally, 4 weeks before classes begin).
DRC requests and receives text from the publisher in a digital file. If the digital file is not available,
student provides his or her textbook to the DRC to chop and scan.
Depending on student’s preferred format, DRC provides PDF and/or Word/Rich Text Format (RTF)
file within 3 weeks of student’s request via Zimbra Briefcase or student pickup.
Student uses DRC-provided files with text-to-speech software, enlarges, or converts to MP3.
See the “Software Options” section at the end of this document for details.
Timelines in this document are approximate.
Updated on 04/27/11