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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="11-901" title_number="11" title_name="Maryland Higher Education Commission" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Instructional Materials for Blind and Print Disabled Students">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Committee” means the Instructional Materials Access Guidelines Committee.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Instructional material” 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.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Instructional material” does not include materials for which software is not commercially available at a reasonable  price to permit the conversion of existing electronic files of the  materials into a format that is compatible with braille translation software or alternative media for students with disabilities, including mathematics and science materials.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Library” means the Maryland Library for the Blind and Print Disabled.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Printed instructional material” means instructional material in book or other printed form.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Structural integrity” means material composed of all of the textual printed instructional material.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Structural integrity” includes the text of the material, sidebars, the table of contents, chapter headings and subheadings, footnotes, indexes, glossaries, and bibliographies.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Structural integrity” does not include material composed of nontextual elements such as pictures, illustrations, graphs, or charts.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
