Are You Receiving the Accessibility Tips and Tricks?

  • Learn to make information accessible to people with disabilities
  • Implement what you learn right away
  • Understand how people with disabilities use technology
  • Receive our monthly newsletter packed with news, articles and updates
  • Bonus workbook: Ten steps to a more accessible web site

California Law Encourages Digital Textbooks by 2020

While it seems increasingly likely that e-books will one day become the standard in education, California has passed a law to virtually guarantee it --
and to set a deadline.

A new state law, effective January 1, 2020, will require that all textbooks used in public and private postsecondary institutions be made available in electronic
form "to the extent practicable" either "in whole or in part." Senate Bill 48 states that "the electronic version of any textbook shall contain the same
content as the printed version and may be copy-protected."

Read more, opens in new window

Bookmark/Search this post with:
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Yahoo
  • Technorati

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

This blog uses CommentLuv plugin which will try and parse your sites feed and display a link to your last post, please be patient while it tries to find it for you
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.