The National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) was created through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) of 2004 as a means of standardizing the process by which blind and other print-disabled students receive their textbooks in accessible formats. The National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC) was established to receive and catalog publishers' electronic files of print instructional materials in the NIMAS format.

The Center for Innovation and Instruction for Diverse Learners (CIIDL) manages, distributes, and tracks all accessible digital content (textbooks) requested from the NIMAC by Kentucky teachers as mandated by federal statute through working with the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) as an authorized entity. CIIDL supports KDE on NIMAS policy and implementation issues. Our staff works with issues dealing with state implementation from the regulations to actual content distribution.

CIIDL staff provides direct service to teachers requesting accessible digital content by creating student ready files based on request by local digital right managers to the Kentucky Accessible Materials Database (KAMD). Our staff manages all components related to the KAMD data system and converts raw NIMAS files into student ready files for all students with disabilities in Kentucky. All digital files requested by school based Digital Rights Managers (DRMs) is created, distributed, and tracked by CIIDL staff. CIIDL offers training to all DRMs in Kentucky.