{"id":2681,"date":"2023-10-10T22:19:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T22:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-services\/?page_id=2681"},"modified":"2023-10-10T22:19:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T22:19:25","slug":"textbooks-in-alternative-format","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/students\/textbooks-in-alternative-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Textbooks in Alternative Format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Macalester students approved for the accommodation of alternative texts should complete these steps:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check to see if the requested book is available in an appropriate alternative format through the Mac Bookstore or other accessible text resources a student may be registered (e.g. Learning Ally, Bookshare).&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If no alternative option is available, purchase the text in the print-copy form. A student must provide proof of purchase by emailing: <\/span><a href=\"mailto:disabilityresources@macalester.edu\">disabilityresources@macalester.edu<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Request alternative text preferences\u00a0through the request form: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSexm7wqbe-xHdXxgf--nMX1_hXl0MEPQ1YSbp0Rk-zOzj3JXA\/viewform?usp=sf_link\">Alternative Text Form<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Please submit requests as early as possible in order to allow time to process and prepare materials. <b style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Preparing alternative texts may take up to several weeks. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sometimes textbook files are not available.&nbsp; In these cases, students may need to have a book modified (for scanning In this case, the book may not be resellable. Scanning a book may take several days.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Students may not revise, convert, modify, sell, rent, or otherwise share the electronic texts or equipment to any other person as per our agreement with publishers.\u00a0Disability Resources is responsible for verifying the purchase of books prior to conversion.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students may also convert their own documents by using the document converter:&nbsp;<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/max\/documentconverter\/\">Document Accessibility Converter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macalester students approved for the accommodation of alternative texts should complete these steps:&nbsp; Students may also convert their own documents by using the document converter:&nbsp;Document Accessibility Converter<\/p>","protected":false},"author":643,"featured_media":0,"parent":352,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2681","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2681\/revisions\/2969"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}