What is AB 422?
On September 15, 1999, California Governor Gray Davis signed into law Assembly Bill 422 (Steinberg) which requires publishers of instructional material to provide the material at no cost in an electronic format for use by students with disabilities at the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges. This new law, which became effective January 1, 2000, will assist colleges in meeting their pre-existing obligations to provide instructional materials in alternate media. The electronic text supplied by a publisher may be used to produce large print, translated and sent to a braille embosser, or accessed directly with speech synthesizers or refreshable braille displays.
