Blindness-Related Resources
on the Web and Beyond

General Resources

• American Academy of Ophthalmology's collection of Resource Listings for the Visually Impaired
• AeonAccess' Access Technology Links
• American Printing House for the Blind
  1. Fred's Head: A Database of Tips, Tricks & Techniques for the Blind/VI, a project of American Printing House for the Blind, is an invaluable resource for everyone and anyone
     1. Fred's Head Database Quick Search
     2. Fred's Head Database Advanced Search
     3. Browse Fred's Head by Category
     4. Tips for new users of Fred's Head
     5. Ask Fred: Questions & Suggestions
• Associations pour Déficients Visuels (list of Francophone associations in French, with addresses, phone numbers, and -- where applicable -- email addresses and links to web sites)
• BLIND-L--quite possibly the most important link you'll ever follow...
• Blind Net
• Blind Resources, from Access Ability Alaska
• BLINDSPOTS: Movie Reviews for Visually Impaired People
• The Official DALnet #BlindTalk IRQ Channel Web Page
• Choice Magazine is a monthly audio anthology of articles, short stories and poetry selected from current magazines
  1. subscribe to Choice Magazine Listening
  2. cancel your subscription to Choice Magazine Listening
  3. Choice Magazine Listening change of address form
  4. contact Choice Magazine Listening via email
• Deafblind Link
  1. Blindness Links
  2. Deafblindness Links
  3. Deafness Links
  4. Other Disabilities Links
• Dialogue, a magazine published by Blindskills, Inc.
  1. When I meet a blind person...
• Glen Bracegirdle's GBNet is an online technology resource centre for blind and visually impaired people. GBNet contains a cornucopia of important, up-to-date information and tutorials including resources and information about web accessibility, adaptive technology, electronic books, web site tools, Java tools, related downloads, an extensive links directory, and much much more, including Glen's Personal Blog and Glen's Technology Blog.
• General Information About Blindness
• The Human Potential to Live With Blindness
• INDIE, the Integrated Network of Disability Information and Education maintains a list of Sites Pertaining to Visual Impairments
• LOVNET: the Low-Vision Network
• Macular Degeneration Foundation's Eyesight Informer
• Mady's Resources Related To Blindness and Diabetes
• New Zealand Resource Guide for the Visually Impaired
• Project Enable's Visual Impairments and Blindness Directory
• VI Guide: A Parent's Guide to Resources About Visual Impairments
• Virtual Vision Unlimited
• The Vision Network's Web Site features eyecare information and resources, including:
  • The 20/20 WebSearch Engine
    • Internal Data Search Engine
  • Visual Impairments and Blindness Expert System (VIBES)
  • Vision Chat Room
  • Vision Enhancement

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Blind BBSes Online

• GBX: The Global Blind Exchange suddenly and sadly disappeared from the internet sometime in 1998.
• telnet to NFBnet, the BBS of the National Federation of the Blind

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Deaf-Blind Resources

Info About Deaf-Blindness | Deaf-Blind Organizations

Information About Deaf-Blindness

• DeafBlind Info (Minnesota's Deafblindness Resource)
• A Deafblindness Web Resource
• A to Z Deafblindness
  1. Deafblindness Links
  2. Blindness Links
  3. Deafness Links
  4. Equipment for Deafblind Individuals
  5. Equipment & Suppliers of Equipment for the Deaf & Blind
  6. Other Disabilities Links
• Deaf-Blind Online features free software for persons who are deaf-blind
• the current issue of Deaf-Blind Perspectives, a publication of the Teaching Resources Center at Western Oregon State University
• DB-LINK: The National Information Clearinghouse on Children Who Are Deaf-Blind
• Deafblind Children: A Resource for Parents
• NTAC: National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children & Young Adults who are Deaf-Blind
• Infantile Refsum's Disease
• My Life with Usher Syndrome, the personal testimony of Lawrence W. Lee, president of Esceptional Students at Creighton University and a board member of the NFB of Nebraska

Deaf-Blind Organizations & Associations
(organized alphabetically)

• American Association of the Deaf-Blind (AADB)
• Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind (AIDB)
• The Australian DeafBlind Council
• The Canadian Deaf-Blind and Rubella Association
• Center for Deaf-Blind Persons (Beth David Institute, Tel Aviv)
• DeafBlind Association NSW (Australia)
• Florida Outreach Project for Individuals with Deaf-Blindness
• Royal Institute for Deaf-Blind Children (Australia)
• Föreningen Sveriges Dövblinda (Swedish Deaf-Blind Organization)
• The Great Lakes Area Regional Center for Deafblind Education is a federally funded program, physically located at the University of Dayton, which provides technical and educational assistance and support to deafblind individuals under the age of twenty-one in Ohio and Wisconsin
• Helen Keller National Center
• Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youth and Adults
• The web site of the North Carolina Deafblind Associates (NCDBA) is available in the following three flavors:
  1. text-only version of the NCDBA site
  2. high-contrast version of the NCDBA site
  3. graphical version of the NCDBA site
• Statens sentralteam for døvblinde
  1. The National Central Team for the Deafblind (Norway)
• National Family Association for the Deaf-Blind (NFADB)
• National Federation of the Blind's Deaf-Blind Division
• Vermont Project for Children & Youth With Deafblindness
• Virginia School for the Blind (Hampton, Virginia)
• Virginia School for the Deaf & the Blind (Staunton, Virginia)

NOTE: an excellent, albeit non-deafblind specific, site containing a plethora of resources pertaining to deafness is Deaf Watch

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Vision Loss & Low Vision
Information & Resources

Vision Loss/Low Vision Sub-Index

1. General Vision Loss & Low Vision Information & Resources

2. Cataracts

3. Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS)

4. Glaucoma

5. Keratoconus

6. Macular Degeneration

7. Nystagmus

8. Optic Nerve Diseases

9. Presbyopia

10. Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE)

11. Retinitis Pigmentosa

12. Septo-Optic Dysplasia/Optic Nerve Hypoplasia

13. Usher Syndrome

14. Uveitis

15. Xeroderma Pigmentosum

16. Prevention of Vision Loss

17. Research-Related Resources

18. Large Print Resources

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General Information About Vision Loss & Low Vision Resources

• Adjustment to Blindness and Visual Impairment
• Bartimèus: "The Low Vision Experts"
• Eye Diseases (MedLine/NIH)
• Eye Surgery Education Council
• International Society for Low-Vision Research and Rehabilitation
• Operation Eyesight, a non-profit organization that has been helping those threatened with preventable and treatable blindness conditions for over 40 years. Volunteer opportunities available.
  1. Operation Eyesight: information en français
• SightLoss--information about vision loss from Susan L. McNeish and dog guide Balsa.

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Cataracts

• While the information contained in the Cataract Surgery Patient Information section of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery is of great utility, the ASCRS site itself is hardly a paragon of accessibility--its front page utilizes TABLEs for layout and features graphical hyperlinks, none of which contain any alternative text. Therefore, I have re-indexed the information contained in the ASCRS site below:
  • Cataract in Adults: A Patient's Guide,
  • Cataract and Refractive Eye Care Glossary
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Cataracts
  • Refractive Eye Surgery: New Options in Vision Correction
  • White Paper on Cataract Surgery
• Mayo Report: Cataracts

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Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS)

• Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS)
• RNIB Fact Sheet on Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS)

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Glaucoma

• The Glaucoma Home Page is a disappointingly inaccessibly-encoded page--especially for anyone with low vision... don't take my word for it--ask Bobby!

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Keratoconus

• Center for Keratoconus
• Frequently Asked Questions about Keratoconus
• National Keratoconus Foundation (NKCF)

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Leber's Disease/LHON

• Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON)
• Leber's Disease
• Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy Trust
  • Research
  • Bulletin Board
• "Misconceptions About Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy" by David Mackey (The Medical Journal of Australia, 1994)

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Macular Degeneration

• the obscenely over-graphical and none-too-accessible interface of Macular Degeneration Help Center no longer offers a "text-only" interface
• Macular Degeneration Foundation's Eyesight Informer
  1. The Magnifier: the newsletter of the MDF
• Macular Degeneration Support: The eyes of the Macular Degeneration Community
• Las Vegas Vision Specialists for Macular Degeneration, Glaucoma & Diabetes

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Nystagmus

• American Nystagmus Network (ANN)
  1. General Information about Nystagmus
  2. Frequently Asked Questions about Nystagmus
  3. information for parents with school-aged children with Nystagmus
• Nystagmus Network (U.K.)
• Deutsches Nystagmus Netzwerk

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Optic Nerve Diseases

• International Foundation for Optic Nerve Disease

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Presbyopia

• Presbyopia
  1. Options for today's Presbyopes

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PXE (Pseudoxanthoma elasticum)

• The Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) Page
  • PXE FAQ
  • PXE Support Groups
  • PXE News Center
  • Current PXE Research
• PXE Info from Gene Clinics (funded by NIH)

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Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP)

• RPLIST: the retinal degeneration discussion list
  1. subscribe to RPLIST
  2. search RPLIST's archives
• Retina International
  1. Retina International's Scientific Newsletter
• British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society
  1. BRPS' List of RP-Related Web Sites
• Retina Hong Kong (formerly known as Hong Kong Retinitis Pigmentosa Society)
• Retina Implant News from the University of Bonn
• Associazione Italiana per la Retinite Pigmentosa e l'Ipovisione
• Retina Australia
• Western Australia Retinitis Pigmentosa Association
• Swiss RP Association
  1. Retina Suisse (deutsch)
  2. Retina Suisse (français)
  3. Retina Suisse (italiano)

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Septo-Optic Dysplasia (SLO) & Optic Nerve Hypoplasia (ONH)

• Information for Parents of Children with SLO/ONH

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Stevens Johnson Syndrome (Erythema multiforme)

• Stevens Johnson Syndrome Foundation
• Stevens Johnson Syndrome Health Information Portal
• Erythema multiforme (Stevens Johnson Syndrome) Information (NIH)

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Usher Syndrome

• Usher Syndrome (NIDCD)
  1. no graphics version of NIDCD Usher Syndrome information
• The Usher Syndrome Page (A to Z of Deafblindness)
• Usher Syndrome (Foundation Fighting Blindness)
• Usher Syndrome Information (Family Village) (a service of the University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• Genetic Analysis of Usher Syndrome in Ashkenazi Jews (Clinical Trial)

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Uveitis

• Ocular Immunology & Uveitis Foundation, a resource from the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, maintained (for the most part) by C. Stephen Foster, M.D.
  1. Uveitis
     1. Uveitis Specialists
  2. Frequently Asked Questions About Uveitis and Ocular Inflamatory Disease
  3. American Uveitis Society's list of Uveitis Specialists
  4. Patient Information from the American Uveitis Society
  5. Online Uveitis Support Groups
  6. Recent Literature in Ocular Immunology
  7. American Uveitis Society's List of Links pertaining to Ocular Immunology
  8. Information on Ocular Inflammatory Disease (American Uveitis Society)
     1. Acute Anterior Uveitis
     2. Chronic Anterior Uveitis (PDF document)
        1. Chronic Anterior Uveitis (hypertext version)
     3. Behçet's Disease (PDF document)
        1. Behçet's Disease Information (hypertext version)
     4. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Retinitis
     5. Etanercept
     6. Fuchs' Heterochromic Uveitis (PDF document)
        1. Fuchs' Heterochromic Uveitis (hypertext document
     7. Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus (PDF document)
        1. hypertext version of Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus information
     8. Junior Idiopathic Arthritis-associated Uveitis
     9. Morren's Ulcer
     10. Ocular Cicatricial Pemphigoid
     11. Posner-Schlossman Syndrome
     12. Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
     13. Retinal Vasculitis
     14. Wegener's Glanulomastosis
  9. Laboratory Research in Ocular Immunology
• Uveitis Info (RNIB)
• The Uveitis Information Group (United Kingdom)
• Uveitis Support Group (Boston, MA)
  1. My Experience with Idiopathic Uveitis: A Patient's Perspective, an essay by Mary Herden

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Xeroderma Pigmentosum

• Xeroderma Pigmentosum Society

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Prevention

• The Foundation Fighting Blindness
  • Mission Statement
  • The Latest Research
• National Eye Institute
• Prevent Blindness America
• Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)

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Research

• CERA: Centre for Eye Research Australia (Department of Opthamology, University of Melbourne)
• Eyeville: an opthalmic resource center
• The MRC Human Genetics Unit (Western General Hospital, Edinburgh)
• RetNet, the Retinal Information Network is sponsored by the Laboratory for the Molecular Diagnosis of Inherited Eye Diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center
  1. Cloned and/or Mapped Genes Causing Retinal Diseases
  2. Summary of Genes Causing Retinal Diseases (table)
  3. Symbols of Genes Causing Retinal Diseases (3 column table)
  4. References for Disease Tables
  5. Resources for Research on Retinal Degeneration (table)
  6. What's New in Genes Causing Retinal Diseases (table)
• description of the research being conducted at the University of Calgary's Vision and Aging Lab
• Vision Research Links from UC Irvine
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Vision Science
• Camera Obscura's index of Educational Resources Pertaining to Blindness and Vision Loss

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Blindness-Related Organizations
(listed alphabetically)

Sub-Index

1. American Organizations and Foundations

2. Asian Organizations and Foundations

3. Australian, New Zealand, and Oceanian Organizations

4. Canadian Organizations and Foundations

5. Central and South American Organizations and Foundations

6. European Organizations and Foundations

7. International Organizations and Foundations

8. Organizations & Foundations of & for the Deafblind

American Organizations and Foundations

National American Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• ACB: The American Council of the Blind
  1. ACB Affiliated Organizations
  2. BFLAG: Blind Friends of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People, founded in 1996, in 2000, BFLAG received a charter as a special interest affiliate of the American Council of the Blind
• AFB: The American Foundation for the Blind
• American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults
• The Blinded Veterans Association
• Catholic Guild for the Blind
• CSBPS: Community Services for the Blind & Partially Sighted, serving the Pacific Northwest
  1. CSBPS Programs & Services
  2. SightConnection: the CSBPS' Online Store, offering "more than 200 items designed to support the independence and well-being of people who are blind and visually impaired"
• Helen Keller Services for the Blind (New York City)
  1. framed version of the HKSB web site
• Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youth and Adults
• Jewish Braille Institute of America
• The Lighthouse for the Blind
• NFB: The National Federation of the Blind
  1. Comprehensive List of the web sites of NFB Chapters
  2. National Federation of the Blind's Deaf-Blind Division
  3. search NFB's web site
• National Society to Prevent Blindness/Prevent Blindness New Jersey
  1. Gallery of Visual Disorders
  2. Referral Guidelines for Vision Problems (New Jersey)
• NAVH: National Association for Visually Handicapped/Impaired (offices in NYC and San Francisco)
• National Industries for the Blind
• NOAH: The National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation
• Opportunities for the Blind, a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting legally blind individuals achieve their career objectives and become self-supporting

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Alabama - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Alabama State Services for the Blind & Visually Impaired
• Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind

Alaska - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Access Alaska
  1. Access Alaska - Fairbanks Branch
• Alaska Independent Blind
  1. Alaska Independant Blind Newsletter
• Alaska Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired (state agency)
• ATLA: The Assistive Technology of Alaska, connects Alaskans who have disabilities with the tools they need in order to learn, work, play, and participate in community life safely and independently; a used equipment recycling program is also coordinated by ATLA
  1. ATLA's Swap Shop
  2. ATLA's Weblog

Arizona - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Arizona: State Services for the Blind & Visually Impaired
  1. Arizona State Services for the Deaf, Deaf-Blind, & Hard-of-Hearing

Arkansas - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Arkansas Division of Services for the Blind
• E.R. Rudolphy Residence for the Blind

California - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Baytalk Computer User Group (San Francisco)
• Blind Ambition: non-profit, self-defense organization for the visually impaired. (California)
• Blind Ambition: a "Social Club for the Blind and Visually-Impaired" located in Orange County, California
• Blind Babies: serving families of infants and young children with visual imapirments in Northern and Central California
• The Blind Children's Center (Los Angeles, California)
• California Blind & Visually Impaired State Services
• California Deaf-Blind Services
• Rose Resnick Lighthouse for the Blind and VI (San Francisco, CA)
  1. Lighthouse of the North Coast (Humboldt & Del Norte counties, California)
• San Mateo County Council of the Blind

Colorado - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Colorado Association of Blind Students

Connecticut - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Connecticut State Board of Education & Services for the Blind

Delaware - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Delaware Division for the Visually Impaired

Foundations for the Blind/VI in the District of Columbia (Washington, DC)

• Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind

Florida - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Center for the Visually Impaired (Central Florida)
• Conklin Center for the Blind, trains, assists, and supports individuals who are blind and have one or more other disabilities to obtain gainful employment, live independently, participate in community life.
• Florida Center for the Blind, headquartered in Ocala, the Florida Center for the Blind is a non-profit organization that teaches alternatives to performing daily tasks with a minimum of inconvenience to the individual. The Center also aids its clients in locating and qualifying for services available to them.
• Florida Division of Blind Services, Florida's state agency responsible for ensuring that people of all ages resident in Florida who are blind or visually impaired can live independently and achieve their goals. The Bureau of Braille and Talking Book Library administers a free library program of braille and recorded materials for eligible readers.
• Florida Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, headquartered in Tallahassee, the mission of the Florida Division of Vocational Rehabilitation is to enable individuals with disabilities to obtain and keep employment.
• Florida Eye Center, located in Saint Petersburg, provides a wide array of Low Vision Resources
• Florida Outreach Project for Individuals with Deaf-Blindness
• Independence for the Blind of West Florida, headquartered in Pensacola, Independence for the Blind of West Florida serves persons who are blind or visually impaired in a ten county area in Northwest Florida. The service area includes Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Holmes, Bay, Jackson, Washington, Calhoun, and Gulf counties. Services are provided to clients free of charge.
• Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired is a private, nonprofit, educational, and rehabilitation organization, serving people of all ages who are blind or visually impaired at two locations serving Pasco and Hernando Counties. The mission of the Lighthouse is to provide blind and visually impaired persons with the skills needed to achieve their maximum independence.
• Lighthouse for the Blind of Central Florida, serves adults and children with low vision and blindness by providing professional rehabilitation and training programs in Orange, Seminole, and Osceola counties. Lighthouse is the sole non-profit provider of comprehensive vision rehabilitation services in the Central Florida area.
• Low Vision Institute, offers comprehensive low vision care to patients with conditions such as macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, albinism, brain injury, stroke, and retinitis pigmentosa. The main office is located in Fort Lauderdale, with satellite offices in Stuart, Miami, Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, and the Villages just north of Orlando.
• Low Vision Solutions, a low vision program offering physician services, occupational therapy services, and state-of-the-art resources and optical aids.
• Miami Lighthouse for the Blind
• New Vision for Independence, a non-profit agency providing free instruction, vision rehabilitation, and support services to visually impaired or blind adults and their families in Lake and Sumter Counties.
• Panhandle Vision Institute, headquartered in Gulf Breeze
• Tampa Lighthouse for the Blind, provides comprehensive rehabilitation programs for persons who are blind or visually impaired in two locations in Florida. On-site services are provided in Tampa and in Winter Haven for persons residing in Hillsborough, Polk, and surrounding counties. Training is designed to help individuals who have recently lost part or all of their vision to gain the skills needed to perform daily living tasks.
• Lighthouse for the Blind of Broward County, enhancing the independence, productivity, and quality of life of visually impaired children, youth, working age adults, and elders who are blind or visually impaired.
• Visually Impaired Persons (VIP) of Charlotte County, a resource and education center offering programs and services to the visually impaired of Charlotte County, Florida and surrounding community.
• Visually Impaired Persons (VIP) of Southwest Florida, offers activities of daily living, braille, eccentric viewing training (reading), assistive technology, orientation and mobility, social services, counseling, arts and crafts classes, festive events, and bi-monthly social gatherings. VIP has a part-time optometrist who specializes in low vision and a low vision lab with high tech equipment.

Georgia - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Atlanta Center for the Visually Impaired
  1. Atlanta Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired - text-only version
• Georgia Industries for the Blind
  1. Georgia Industries for the Blind: Fact Sheet
• Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation

Hawaii - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Ho'opno: State of Hawaii's Blindness and Visual Impairment Services
• Hawaii Center for the Deaf and Blind

Idaho - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Idaho Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired (ICBVI)

Illinois - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Chicago Blind Computer Users Network
• Illinois Bureau of Blind Services

Indiana - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• EAB: Evansville Association of the Blind
• Indiana Blind & Visually Impaired State Services
• Indiana School for the Blind (Indianapolis)

Iowa - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Iowa Department For the Blind

Kentucky - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• The Blue Grass Council of the Blind, Inc., a United Way agency, provides the only full-time information and referral service in Kentucky for individuals and their families who are blind or visually impaired
• Kentucky Office for the Blind
• Kentucky Department for the Deaf-Blind

Maryland - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind

Massachusetts - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• LAB: The Lowell Association for the Blind (Massachusetts, USA)
  1. The LAB Retreivers Beep Baseball Team
• The Carroll Center for the Blind (Newton, Massachusetts)
• Massachusetts Association for the Blind (MAB)
• VIBUG: Visually Impaired and Blind User Group of Boston (Massachussetts)

Michigan - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Association for the Blind & VI
  1. Peer Support Groups for the Blind & VI in Michigan
• Greater Detroit Agency for the Blind & Visually Impaired (formerly known as the Upshaw Institute for the Blind)
  1. Michigan Parents of Children with Visual Impairments
  2. Council of Services Aiding the Blind in Greater Detroit

Minnesota - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Minnesota Services for the Blind

Missouri - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• St. Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Nebraska - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Nebraska Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired
  1. emailing list for the Nebraska Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired

Nevada - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Las Vegas Vision Specialists for Macular Degeneration, Glaucoma & Diabetes

New Jersey - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Associated Services for the Blind (serving Philadelphia and southern NJ since 1874)
• New Jersey Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired
• New Jersey Unit of RFB&D
  1. New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards - RFB&D Textbook Lists
• New Jersey State Library for the Blind & Physically Handicapped
• NJ Association of County Offices for the Disabled
• SeeingEye (Morristown, NJ)
  
  
• Alliance for Disabled in Action (independent living skills/Union, Middlesex, & Somerset Counties, NJ)

New York - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• The Associated Blind (New York)
  1. eSight Careers Network
     1. What is eSight?
     2. Become an eSight Member
     3. eSight's Community News Blog
• AVI: Association for Visually Impaired (Rockland & Orange Counties, New York)
• New York Commission for the Blind & Visually Handicapped
  1. NY CBVH Programs
• Mayor's Office for Persons With Disabilities (New York City)
  1. text-only version of New York City's Mayor's Office for Persons With Disabilities site
• Theater by the Blind (New York City)
• VICUG NYC: The Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group of New York City (peer support group for the New York City metropolitan area)
  1. Meetings & Minutes
  2. Moving Targets: Topical Topics of Interest
  3. Join VIC-NYC, the emailing list of VICUG NYC

North Carolina - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• North Carolina Division of Services for the Blind
  1. North Carolina Division of Services for the Blind's collection of blindness-related links
• Southeastern Guide Dogs Outreach Office (Concord, NC)

Ohio - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Cincinati Organization for the Blind & Visually Impaired
• Cleveland Sight Center

Oregon - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Oregon State Commission for the Blind
  1. text-only version of the Oregon State Commission for the Blind

Pennsylvania - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Associated Services for the Blind (serving Philadelphia and southern NJ since 1874)
• BOLD: Blind Outdoor Leisure Development, an organization of blind/VI individuals who participate in outdoor and cultural activities in the Pittsburgh area
• Keystone Blind Association
  1. text-only version of Keystone Blind Association site
• Pennsylvania Association for the Blind
  1. DelCo Blind the Delaware County Branch of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind (Chester, Pennsylvania)
• Pittsburgh Vision Services serving residents of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
• VIPACE: Visually Impaired Pittsburgh Area Computer Enthusiasts
  1. Helpful Resources
  2. State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies
  3. Meetings and Events
  4. A Citizens Handbook for the Rehabilitation Act
  5. DataStream: computer-related articles read over RIS in the Pittsburgh/Three Rivers Area
• VITAL: Visually Impaired Technology Advocacy League (Wilkes-Barre, PA)

Texas - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Access San Antonio (live audio description)
• Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind
• Texas Commission for the Blind
  1. Legal Authority for TCB
• Texas School for the Blind

Vermont - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
• Vermont Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Virginia - Organizations, Services, & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Virginia Departmet for the Blind and Visually Impaired
• Virginia School For The Deaf & The Blind

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Asian Organizations and Foundations
(alphabetically arranged by country)

Organizations & Foundations for the Blind in Honk Kong

• Hong Kong Retinitis Pigmentosa Society

Organizations & Foundations for the Blind in India

• Blind Men's Association, Ahmedabad (Ahmedabad, India)
• Blindness in India
• Braille Aid from Webel Mediatronics, developers of a text-to-braille transcription system featuring text-to-braille software in 12 regional Indian languages, a braille keyboard, an automatic braille embosser, and a tactile reader, as well as braille-to-text software in English, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, and Assamese, with development of similar software in other languages in process.
• National Association for the Blind (India)
• DANPCB: National Program for the Control of Blindness (New Delhi, India)
• NPCB: National Programme for Control of Blindness (New Delhi, India)
• Disability India

Organizations & Foundations for the Blind in Malaysia

• Malaysian Association for the Blind

Organizations & Foundations for the Blind in Pakistan

• CKS: Care & Kindness Society (Pakistan) is an organization dedicated to the promotion of eye-care, visual health, free eye clinics, and vision loss prevention in Pakistan

Organizations & Foundations for the Blind in Singapore

• SAVH: Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped

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Australian, New Zealand, Micronesean, and Oceanian Organizations

• The Australian DeafBlind Council
• Blind Citizens Australia (BCA)
  1. Find the nearest audio ATM in Australia
  2. Horizons, the radio program of the BCA
     1. Horizons broadcast schedule
     2. download Horizons for off-line listening
• Guide Dogs NSW/ACT
• New Zealand Resource Guide for the Visually Impaired
• Royal Institute for Deaf-Blind Children (Australia)
• Royal Blind Society (Australia) "is the key service provider in New South Wales and Australian Capital Territories for children and adults who are blind or vision impaired. RBS offers counselling, employment support, computer training, a talking book library and talking newspaper service, transcription facilities, low vision aids and strategies for managing everyday activities and retaining independence
• Royal Guide Dogs Association of Tasmania
• Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind (Australia)
• The South Australian Royal Society for the Blind
• Victorian Blind Cricket Association's web site contains informatation about the game of blind cricket as it is played in Victoria, Australia
• Vision Australia, "the largest provider of services to people who are blind or vision impaired in Australia, assisting more than 38,000 children and adults to live the lives they choose."

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Canadian Organizations and Foundations

• Coalition for Active Living (formerly Alliance for Canadians with a Disability)
  • Coalition pour la vie active
• Alberta Sports & Recreation for the Blind
• Canadian Braille Authority/L'Autorit#é canadienne du braille (ACB): "Promoting braille as a primary medium for blind persons" / «Favoriser le braille comme média privilégié»
  • Canadian Braille Authority (CBA) - english home page
  • L'Autorité canadienne du braille (ACB) - information en franèais
• CCB: Canadian Council of the Blind
  1. Le Conseil Canadien des Aveugles (CCB en français)
• Canadian Council on Disabilities
• CNIB: Canadian National Institute for the Blind
• Canadian Deaf-Blind and Rubella Association
  1. L'Association Canadienne de la Surdicécité et de la Rubeole
• Le Bon Pilote, Inc. (Montréal)
  1. Le Bon Pilote (english version)
• MAB: Montreal Association for the Blind/Association Montréalaise pour les Aveugles
  1. English text-only version of the MAB site
  2. MAB table des matières (en français)
• National Broadcast Reading Service
• National Federation of the Blind: Advocates for Equality, is a Canadian organization which believes that "the real problem with blindness is not the loss of eyesight -- the real problem is misunderstanding and a lack of positive information about blindness and the achievements of people who are blind."
  1. The Canadian Blind Monitor, a publication of NFBAE
• Operation Eyesight, a non-profit organization that has been helping those threatened with preventable and treatable blindness conditions for over 40 years. Volunteer opportunities available.
  1. Operation Eyesight: information en français
• PRCVI: Provincial Resource Centre for the Visually Impaired (British Columbia)
• Regroupement des aveugles et amblyopes du Montréal métropolitain
• RP Research Foundation (Toronto, Canada)
• Physically located in Vancouver, BC, The Western Association of Persons with Vision Impairment (WAPVI) is a non-profit organization run by and for blind and VI persons. WAPVI maintains a computer loan-bank and a text-based BBS for blind/VI individuals.
• The Ontarians With Disabilities Act Committee

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Central and South American Organizations and Foundations
(alphabetically arranged by country)

Brazilian Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Instituto de Cegos da Bahia

Colombian Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• INCI: Instituto Nacional para Ciegos (Colombia)

Peruvian Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Asociacion Peruana de Ciegos Catolicos (Peru)
• Centro de Rehabilitacion de Ciegos de Lima (Peru)
• Instituto Nacional de Ciegos del Peru (Peru)

• SIDAR: Seminario Iberoamericano sobre Discapacidad y Accesibilidad en la Red (SIDAR)

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European Organizations and Foundations
(alphabetically arranged by country)

Austrian Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Engel auf Pfoten (textversion)
  1. Engel auf Pfoten (frames & grafik)
  2. Angels on Paws (information in English)

Croatian Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Croatian Guide Dogs and Mobility Association
• DODIR: Hrvatska udruga gluhoslijepih osoba
  1. Croatian Association of DeafBlind Persons (DODIR)
• Hrvatski Savez Slijepih (Croatian Association of the Blind)
  1. Croatian Association of the Blind (english version)
• HOMER: Hrvatska udruga prijatelja bijelog štapa
  1. Croatian Association of Long Cane Friends (english version)
• Hrvatska udruga za struènu pomoæ djeci s posebnim potrebama
• Udruga roditelja OKO (Croatian Association of Parents' of Blind Children)
• Udruga Slijepih Zagreb (Zagreb Association of Blind Persons)
• Udruga Slijepih Primorsko-Goranske Zupanije

Czech Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• BraillNet: sjednocené organizace nevidomy'ch a slabozraky'ch
  1. email the Czech Blind and Partially Sighted Union for info in english

Danish Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Fonden for Aktive Blinde
  1. Danish Foundation for the Active Blind
• Danish National Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted Children and Youth

French Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Mira France

German Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Aktion Tonband-Zeitung für Blinde
• Blinde und Sehbehinderte, Lehrerausbildung, Schulen/Schüler im Netz

Greek Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Panhellenic Association of the Blind

Ireland: Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Centre for Inclusive Technology (CFIT, pronounced see-fit)
• the National Council for the Blind of Ireland, provides practical support and services to people who are living with sight loss in Ireland. NCBI also provides a range of services to public and private organisations to make sure that their services are accessible to people who are blind and vision impaired

Italian Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Unione Italiana Ciechi

Luxemburg: Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Luxemburg Institute for Blind and Visually Impaired People
• Lëtzebuerger Blannevereenegung
  1. Association des Aveugles et Malvoyants du Luxembourg (en français)
  2. Lëtzebuerger Blannevereenegung (in deutscher Sprache)

Maltese Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Torball Blind Association (Malta)

Norwegian Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• COST 219 Information Resource Manager
  1. COST 219 Publications Database
• The National Central Team for the Deafblind (Norway)
• Statens sentralteam for døvblinde
  1. Norway's National Central Team for the Deafblind (english version)

Portuguese Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• APEDV: Associação Promotora de Emprego de Deficientes Visuais

Spanish Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles (ONCE)
  1. Oficina de Información de la O.N.C.E. (Texto Castellano)
  2. The ONCE Information Office (English text-only version)
• SIDAR: Seminario Iberoamericano sobre Discapacidad y Accesibilidad en la Red (SIDAR)

Russian Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• All-Russia Association of the Blind

Slovakia: Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Únia nevidiacich a slabozrakých Slovenska (Slovak Blind and Partially Sighted Union) (Bratislava)
  1. English version of the Slovak Blind & Partially Sighted Union's site

Slovenia: Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Sizveza društev slepih in slabovidnih Slovenije (Ljubljana) (Association of the Blind & Partially Sighted of Slovenia)
• CSS: Center slepih in slabovidnih (Škofja Loka) (Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired of Slovania)
• Medobcinsko drustvo slepih in slabovidnih Koper (the web site of the "Intercommunal Association of the Blind and the Weak-Sighted of Koper", 1 of the 8 regional associations of the blind and the weak-sighted that comprise the Union of Associations of the Blind and the Weak-Sighted of Slovenia)
  1. english version of the Intercommunal Association of the Blind and the Weak-Sighted of Koper's site

Sweedish Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Föreningen Sveriges Dövblinda (Swedish Deaf-Blind Organization)

Swiss Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Swiss Federation of the Blind and Visually Impaired
  • Schweizerischer Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband
  • Fédération suisse des aveugles et malvoyants
  • Federazione svizzera dei ciechi e deboli di vista
• Retina Suisse: The Swiss RP Association
  • Retina Suisse (deutsch)
  • Retina Suisse (français)
  • Retina Suisse (italiano)

United Kingdom: Organizations & Foundations for the Blind/VI

• Action for Blind People (UK)
• Association of Blind Piano Tuners (UK)
• since the default homepage for the Brighton (England) Society for the Blind is obscenely inaccessible, it is highly suggested that you use one of the following 2 alternate entrances:
  1. Text Only/Lynx Optomized Version of the Brighton Society's site
  2. Large Text version of the Brighton Society's site
• British Computer Association of the Blind
• Cyngor Cymru i'r Deillion
  1. Wales Council for the blind (english version)
• Derbyshire Association for the Blind (DAB)
• Grampian Society for the Blind (northeast Scotland)
• RNIB: The Royal National Institute for the Blind (UK)
  1. search the RNIB web site
• Scottish Sensory Centre (SSC)
  1. The Sensory Information Service (SIS) is a UK-wide information service for the Deaf and Visually Impaired community and professionals and volunteers working in those fields; SIS is funded by and based in the Scottish Sensory Centre.
  2. The Scottish Sensory Centre's Resource Library is an outstanding resource, comprised of information and articles about myriad disability types, with an emphasis on education, children, and multiple disabilities--the direct links to articles which appear below are only a small sampling of the wealth of information available at the SSC
     1. articles on the Assessment of Visual Impairment in Children
     2. articles on the Education of Blind/VI Children
        1. articles on the education of the VI indexed by title
        2. articles on the education of the VI indexed by author
        3. Early Play & Toys for Blind & VI Kids
        4. Education of Blind & Visually Impaired Children
     3. articles pertaining to visual impairment & multiple disabilities
        1. Autism & Visual Impairment
        2. Educational Implications of Autism & Visual Impairment
     4. Access to Technology by the Visually Impaired
        1. Altering Internet Explorer to Meet Your Needs
        2. Altering Netscape Navigator to Meet Your Needs
        3. Braille & IT: Promises & Threats
• The Sunshine Fund for Blind Children (United Kingdom)
• Wales Council for the Blind

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International Organizations

• RNIB's Links to International Agencies for the Blind
• International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)
• International Eye Foundation, "helping people see since 1961 in more than 60 countries around the world"
• International Glaucoma Association
• International Monovision Association
• International Organization for the Blind
• International Society for Low-Vision Research and Rehabilitation
• Lions World Services for the Blind (LWSB)
• Orbis: Dedicated to Preventing Blindness & Ameliorating Vision Loss
• SIDAR: Seminario Iberoamericano sobre Discapacidad y Accesibilidad en la Red (SIDAR)
• World Blind Union (WBU)

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Assistive Technology:
Research, Development, & Co-Operative Education

• The University of Toronto's Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC)
  1. SNOW: Special Needs Opportunities for Windows
• Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA)
• ACTS AVANTI is a program sponsored by the EU to "demonstrate that it is possible to develop generic multimedia telecommunications applications, which are adaptable and adaptive to the requirements of most potential users, (e.g. disabled people, elderly people, occasional users, professionals), in terms of networks and terminals, information content and human-computer interface.
• CALL Centre provides information on adaptive products distributed in the UK
• CAST: The Center for Applied Special Technology, is a non-profit organization dedicated to "Universal Design for Living", that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals, especially those with disabilities, through the research and development of innovative, technology-based educational resources and strategies"
  • About CAST: The Center for Applied Special Technology
    1. Research & Development in Universal Design for Learning
    2. Policies & Practices of CAST
  • TES: Teaching Every Student
  • National UDL Consortium
  • CAST Resources
  • CAST Publications
  • Products Based on the work of CAST
• Center for Information Technology Accommodation for Persons With Disabilities
• Closing the Gap
• CSUN Center On Disabilities
  1. Alphabetical Listing of Papers Presented at CSUN 99
  2. Alphabetical Listing of Papers Presented at CSUN 98
  3. Alphabetical Listing of Papers Presented at CSUN 97
  4. CSUN Virtual Reality Conferences, 1992-1995
  5. Papers from the CSUN Voice Input/Output Conference, 1991
• DACX: Disability Action Committee for X Windows
  1. Background
  2. Meeting Notes
  3. Papers and Presentations
  4. Products
  5. Related Projects and Information
  6. UNIX/X Window System Software Toolkit
• The DAISY Digital Talking Book System
• DATI: Delaware Assistive Technology Initiative
• Disability Solutions Page
• EASI an organization dedicated to "Equal Access to Information for Persons With Disabilities"... EASI is chaired by Professor Norman Coombs
• GVU: Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (Georgia Tech)
  1. Mercator: a screen-reader for X Windows
• Institute for Electronic Rehabilitation Technology at the Vienna University of Technology
• National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
• National Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation Training Materials
• The National Federation of the Blind's Comprehensive Reviews of Screen Review Programs (warning! this is a large, over 620k, ascii file)
• Pennsylvania Initiative on Assistive Technology
• Project GUIB: Graphical User Interfaces for Blind People
• Project TEDIS
  • Deutsche Version
• Sensus ApS "Computerised Tools for the Blind" is a program of Denmark's University of Roskilde
  1. denne side på dansk
  2. Project AITIIB: Applying Information Technology as an Intelligent Interface for the Blind
  3. 6- and 8-dot Character Set for Windows and DOS
     1. Sensus Braille User Documentation (in Danish)
     2. Sensus Braille Overview Document (in English)
• Soundscapes from The vOICe: "Seeing with your Ears", Peter Meijer's exeperimental system for auditory image representation
  1. Introduction and Overview
  2. Image to Sound Mapping (a white paper)
• UCLA Adaptive Information Technology: Disability and Ergonomic Access to Campus Computing Resources
• The Unofficial Lighthouse for the Blind Online Technology Help Center
• Universal Internet Access Project
  1. Adaptive Technology
  2. Browsers
  3. Platforms
• Virtual Assistive Technology Center (University of Kansas)
• the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
  1. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, 1.0
  2. Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines, 1.0
  3. User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
  4. Accessibility Features of CSS
  5. Aural Cascading Style Sheets (ACSS)
• WYNOT Assitive Technology Resource Center (University of Wyoming)
  1. Adaptive Equipment Loan Bank

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Access to Technology for the Blind:
White Papers and Projects

• "Access to Telecommunications Equipment and Customer Premises Equipment by Individuals with Disabilities", the final report of The Telecommunication Access Advisory Committee
• Accessibility to Scientific Information by the Blind
• RNIB's Accessing Technology: Information for Blind/Low Vision Persons
  1. Technology Information Service
  2. Information for Software Developers
  3. Accessing the Web
  4. TiLE: Technology in Learning & Employment
  5. Articles, Reports, & News About Access Technology
• Alliance for Technology Access (ATA)
• ASSIST With Windows: a project of the Iowa Department for the Blind
  1. About the ASSIST Tutorials
  2. Complete List of ASSIST Tutorials
     • HAL 2.0 for Windows 95 Tutorial
     • Windows XP with JAWS 4.02
     • Windows ME with JAWS 4.01
     • Windows ME with Window-Eyes 4.11
     • Windows 98 with JAWS 3.3
     • Windows 98 with Window-Eyes 3.x-
     • Windows 95 with JAWS 2.0
     • Windows 95 with Window-Eyes 2.1
     • Windows 95 with WinVision 97
  3. ASSIST Tutorials in Development
  4. How to Order an ASSIST Tutorial
• RNIB's Campaign for Good Web Design
  1. How do blind and partially sighted people read the Internet?
  2. Accessing the Internet if You Are Blind or Visually Impaired
• Designing A More Accessible World: Information from the TRACE Center (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  1. Designing Accessible Documents
  2. Designing Accessible Web Pages
     1. Unified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines
  3. Designing Accessible Computer Hardware & Software
  4. Designing Accessible Telecommunications Devices
  5. Designing Accessible Kiosks & ATMs
  6. Designing Accessible Consumer Products
  7. Designing Accessible Housing & Built Environments
  8. Designing Accessible Outdoor Environments (Trails & Recreational Facilities)
• Alan Cantor's Escaping the Mousetrap: "An Evaluation of the Accessibility and Usability of the Windows Keyboard-only Interface"
• Graphical User Interfaces and the Visually Impaired, Part 1 (reprinted from the The Braille Forum)
• Graphical User Interfaces and the Visually Impaired, Part 2 (reprinted from the The Braille Forum)
• The Invisible Model: An Integrated Campus-Wide Model for Adapting Computer Equiment for Blind Students
• Partial Sight & Accomodations (University of Michigan)
• "Towards Accessible Human-Computer Interaction", a whitepaper by Eric Bergman & Earl Johnson of Sun Microsystems
• WebABLE's Accessibility Library--an excellent Collection of white papers, articles, press releases, plans, standards, reference guides, and journals, which focus on accessibility and adaptive technology
• Windows Concepts: An Introductory Guide for Visually Disabled Users
• Elizabeth Hamilton's Resources for People with Print Disabilities

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Speech-Friendly Applications and Utilities

Read, convert, and print Wordperfect, Word, Word for Windows, Ami Pro, Wordstar, Write, Windows clip-board, Notepad, HTML, XYWRITE, MS Publisher, UNIX, Rich Text Format (RTF), ASCII and ANSI files from the DOS prompt with Malcolm Drury's View 17.0 (released 21 October 2000). Features of this customizable utility include: full text search and print functions; ability to convert and/or print files directly, including save to UNIX and ASCII format; and a special mode for screen-reader users. Ideal for DOS, Windows, and Win95 shells.

Other Shareware from Malcom Drury

Adobe Acrobat Access Project

1. Adobe Access FAQ

2. Convert a PDF document to HTML (simple form)

3. Convert a PDF Document to HTML (advanced form)

acrodos.zip, a 2 MB zipfile containing a PDF to DOS converter which works with screen magnification, but not with speech

acrodos.zip is also available from a German mirror site

Blynx32: A Blind-Tailored Distribution of Lynx for Windows 95 & NT

README file for Blynx32

T.V. Raman's Emacspeak: A Speech Output Subsystem For Emacs is a complete audio desktop, which now supports software speech sysnthesis via the IBM's ViaVoice Outloud speech engine

1) Emacspeak FAQ

2) Emacspeak 15.0 (SmartDog) Release Notes (November 21, 2001)

3) download Emacspeak 15.0 (emacspeak-15.0.tar.gz)

4) download the Emacspeak User's Manual (man.tgz)

5) alternative synthesizer drivers for Emacspeak, courtesy of Jim Van Zandt

6) Linux Emacspeak HOWTO

7) W3: a full-fledged web browser which, when used with Emacspeak, audiblizes hyperlinks using different voices

8) other applications which can be auralized using Emacspeak

The University of Delaware's Information Access Laboratory (IAL) is dedicated encouraging students with disabilities in the sciences by eliminating barriers that hinder their educational pursuits through development of toolkits that are intended to make scientific information available to disabled students. A listing of the IAL projects aimed at making visually presented material accessible to the blind and visually impaired students follows:

Haptic Visualization

Speech-to-Braille Computer Interpreter

Tactile Visualization

Virtual Scientific Instruments

Listen2 Speech Technology is a software-based speech solution that works on any 16-bit sound card. The international version can read and speak up to 5 languages. Listen2 Speech comes bundled with the ProVoice software-synthesizer, and requires 16 MB of RAM.

1) History

2) Suggested Uses

3) Voice Samples

4) FAQ

5) Order/Purchase

SCREEN and its Braille Interface to UNIX

Site Manager: an easy-to-use, speech-friendly database program for keeping track of internet addresses. Automatically sorts entries alphabetically. Runs under DOS, Windows 3.x, and Windows 95.

Speech Systems for the Blind is a company dedicated to providing high quality text-to-speech software for under one hundred dollars. Speech Systems for the Blind currently manufactures Winkline, a screen reader for Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Windows NT, as well as Seekline, a screen reader for DOS that can run on a sound card. To obtain a demonstration copy of Winkline or Seekline, email <speechfb@aasp.net>

Vision Screen Driver for Windows95: magnifies screen by a factor of 2 in standard VGA resolution

download the Vision Screen Enhancement Driver, Vision.zip (28k)

vOIce: A VRML Viewer for the Blind

WAB: WWW Access for the Blind & Visually Impaired

ZoomPower: Screen Magnification for Windows: a small and easy-to-use screen magnification program available as shareware for only $25

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Bobcat: Lynx for DOS
A Text- and Lynx-Based DOS Web Browser
That Works on Pre-286 PCs

BOBCAT is a text-based web browser, developed by Wayne Buttles and John Lewis, that runs in a DOS environment. Bobcat, by definition, is a small Lynx. To quote Wayne:

The name was picked to imply that it is a less mature sibling to the Lynx browser. Bobcat started life as Lynx2-4-2. The reason 2-4-2 was chosen is because starting at 2-5, many files in the Lynx distribution became too big to compile out of the package targeted towards a plain DOS version. There have been many changes since 2-4-2, however, it does support many things that DOSLYNX didn't. I have also made many modifications to Bobcat's original behavior to make it more functional.

... After that I made personal decisions on what to support. Although it may disappoint some people, news support is not in Bobcat. It never worked correctly in DOSLYNX and I didn't feel it was a priority. Gopher and Ftp should hopefully work to some degree, but they are not the top priority either. The important thing, as far as I am concerned, is good web support. This is the reason for cutting corners on the other features. There is a new feature added to Bobcat that will allow people to define external programs for certain URLs. This product uses the SPAWNO routines by Ralf Brown to minimize memory use while shelling to DOS and running other programs. Hopefully this will help compensate for Bobcat's shortcomings.

This new Lynx for DOS is a big switch from DOSLYNX. It is Curses based, so it looks like the real Lynx. It does not have pull down menus or a multiple document interface. I prefer the real Lynx interface which is partially why I made the switch in development. Other good reasons for starting with a new code base are support for forms, numeric links, view source, history list and other features which were not available in DOSLYNX. ...

The first versions of Bobcat have severe memory constraints because of the way the original Lynx was designed. In Un*x, programs assume they have unlimited memory and the programs are coded as such. Bobcat has yet to have memory checking added to it, so when you run out of the tiny amount of conventional memory available it will very unceremoniously drop you to the DOS prompt.

It is important to note that Bobcat is NOT a true Lynx port. It is a work based on Lynx--specifically, Lynx 2.4.2 This means that it can not keep up with the current Lynx development code, nor can Lynx patches be added to Bobcat. While the 386 and Win32 ports of Lynx have this ability, Bobcat can run on older PCs--even those with a 8086 processor. This also means, however, that Bobcat has some serious limitations, including a tendency to crash when it encounters pages larger than 100 kilobytes large. Yet, if you are using a pre-386 computer to access the internet, Bobcat is an extremely speech-friendly web-access solution.

Bobcat is currently in its fifth release, and is available as a self-extracting archive, BCAT-E05.EXE, which was released on September 17, 1997. It now supports many, if not most, CGA adapters. The 0.5 package also has new TCP drivers, dialers, and support documentation, including an interactive tutorial. Consult the Bobcat change.log for complete information on new features and bugfixes--a brief listing of which follows:

Changes to Bobcat Executable Package, 17 September 1997 (E-05)

1. Changes to lynx.exe
   • "z" key - interrupt properly stops download and displays what is received
   • "CONTROL-g" - interrupt stops download and displays current screen
   • "CONTROL-c" - restarts download if slow. Display can be cleaned up with CONTROL-L
   • Made "g"o to line editable
   • Previously accessed site's URLs now continuously saved to history.htm file
   • Change made to lynx.cfg to control the history.htm log file.
   • Eliminated the use of floating point variables in Bobcat (speedup for PCs without math coprocessors)
   • Changed message when lynx.cfg not found, indicating to run newuser.bat
   
   
2. Changes to external programs and documents
   • Added newuser.bat to install all config files for newusers. (Newuser.bat installs only missing config files for existing users.)
   • New faster Epppd version 0.6 with pap & script fixes & chap added
   • New Netdial version 1.3 ( see docs) and dial batch file revised to match.
   • Added a page for helper applications to facilitate downloads.
   • Added a tag to home.htm to display history.htm
   • Minor revisions to readme.doc with suggestions from users.
   • Added Network.doc with information on network installation
   • Removed IRC program (Voice) from package, added ref where to download.
   • Revisions to telnet.htm, gopher.htm, ftp.htm, www.htm, irc.htm, and forms.htm to update sites

The latest version of Bobcat can always be found at:

<http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/bobcats/>

More Information About BOBCAT from Wayne Buttles

1. About Bobcat

2. Get Bobcat

3. Bobcat licence

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COMMO

A popular, powerful, and extremely speech-friendly terminal emulation program. The latest version of COMMO, as well as a plethora of support files, can always be found in the /COMMO directory of <ftp://ftp.ordata.com>

Although COMMO is incredibly easy to use, Jeff Bishop's excellent JB Software Macros, jbs-704.zip, are highly recommended support files which make COMMO even easier to learn. JBS contains a customizable installation macro as well as an excellent interactive tutorial, JB Learn. JBL is a very powerful automated learning engine for COMMO with self-learning features, which means that the program actually learns more about learning as you use it. With JBL you can automate any task, create full mail-run scripts and ready-to-run macros in minutes. The archive that contains the JB Software Macros, jbs-XXX.zip (where "XXX" is the version number), is available from the /COMMO directory of <ftp://ftp.ordata.com>

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DOSLynx

Wayne Buttles not only maintains the The FDISK DosLynx Archive, formerly known as The Unofficial DOSLynx Archive, but has been hacking DOSLynx in order to make if more stable than the last official (University of Kansas) release, DLX0_8A.EXE. A quick way to find out what Wayne has done to improve DOSLynx is to take a listen to the changelog. Wayne has released four revisions, the lastest of which is EXE_16A.ZIP.

A new PPP distribution, specifically written for use with DosLynx, DLYNXPPP.ZIP, is also available at Wayne's site. Be sure to download and read the accompanying HOWTOUSE.TXT file before unarchiving DLYNXPP.ZIP

If you are interested in finding out more about or participating in DOSLynx development, you should consider subscribing to the DOSLynx-Dev emailing list. If you are interested in hacking DOSLynx yourself, SRC_16A.ZIP, which contains the source code for the latest release, is also available at Wayne's site.

Recently, Wayne has suspended work on DOSLynx and Bobcat in order to concentrate on Lynx32 and Lynx386, both of which are true ports of Unix Lynx. Lynx32 works as a DOS-console application under Windows95 and Windows98, while Lynx386 is a true DOS port of Lynx, operable on PCs with a 386 or higher speed processor. To learn more about Wayne's work in the realm of DOS-based internet access, take the time to explore his outstanding DOS-Internet Pages.

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LYNX KIT

One of Rene Ludwiig's DOS Internet Tools, LYNX_KIT, a 1.1MB executable file, contains:

• Lynx 2.8.2 for DOS,
• FTP and IRC Clients
• a PPP Packet Driver,
• Sample Configuration Files for different ISPs
• and a Readme-file

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NetTamer

NetTamer is a DOS-based PPP dialup access program which is very popular with blind users who can't locate a server in their area that offers shell accounts, but who don't want to muck (yes, that was an 'm') around with Netscape or IE whilst simultaneously learning how to use a windows-based screen-reader. NetTamer does not require a TSR packet driver, and is very speech-friendly. You can use NetTamer to browse the web, to get and send email and usenet posts, to upload and download files, for FTP transfers and telnetting to a remote site. The latest release includes an offline mail reader and support for graphics and sound (.wav and .au only--no RealAudio).

• NetTamer for 386 and higher PCs (n110-386.zip/708k)
• NetTamer for XT/286s and non-HP PDAs (n110-xt.zip/486k)
• NetTamer for palm-top PCs and OG700 (n110-pt.zip/479k)
• The KAOS Engine: An Encryption Tool for NeTamer (22k)
• Utilities For Use With Net-Tamer
• Net-Tamer Freeware and Support Programs by Tom Burleigh

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PC-PINE

Locating PC-Pine is curiously, not to mention maddeningly, difficult... One would think that the University of Washington would be pimping it all over the place, but, obviously, they are not... I located it not via a search-engine or archie, but found it simply by loading up the base URL for www.washington.edu and poking around until I found it... Since I have received numerous of requests for information about PC-Pine, I have compiled the following list of PC-Pine related URLs:

PC-Pine in for both DOS and Windows can be downloaded from:

ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pcpine

If you are simply searching for information about PC-Pine, the URL with which to initiate your investigation is:

<http://www.washington.edu/pine/pc-pine/index.html>

If you have trouble loading the above-listed page, try using the following alternate entrance to the PC-Pine information:

<http://www.washington.edu:1180/pine/pc-pine/index.html>

A collection of Pine Technical Notes, which cover both Pine and PC-Pine can be found at:

<http://www.washington.edu/pine/tech-notes/>

Some of the pages which are of particular utility to users of PC-Pine are:

1. Porting and Modifying PC-PINE
2. Configuring PINE
3. Installing PC-Pine
4. Support Files and Environment Variables: PC-Pine

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Repositories and Collections

BlindSoftware: "your source for premiere accessible software"

* download BlindSoftware

BLINUX Software and Documentation Repository

* contains software and documentation for blind users of Linux

(URL ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux)

* the BLINUX Softpointer File

Dave Poehlman's FTP directory

* a large collection of small speech-friendly utilities and programs

(URL ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman)

Ron Gemma's Text-To-Speech Info Page

Paul Henrichsen's FTP directory

* not only features a large collection of screen-access demos and other useful applications, but can be accessed via an hypertext index

(URL ftp://ftp.thesocket.com/pub/henrich)

Steve Clark's Software Page contains a collection of speech-friendly utilities that he himself has written.

The Software Connection's /speech directory

* hypertext index

(URL ftp://softcon.com/speech)

Although it is an indispensible resource, Peter Verhoeven's Screen Magnifiers HomePage is framed, so if you are using a frames-incapable browser, or just hate frames, you can use the following links to directly access the contents of the site, bypassing the frames:

1) Screen Magnifiers News

2) Screen Magnifiers Test/Reviews Page

3) Screen Magnification Demo Download Page

4) Screen Reader Demo Download Page

5) Text-to-Speech Software

6) Search the Screen Magnifiers Pages

7) Peter's Accessibility Corner

"Wild Man" Steve's ftp archive

(URL ftp://negia.net/users/steve)

Matt White's FTP Archive

(URL ftp.ultranet.com/pub/mwhite)

Eurisco Information Systems

/pub/eurisco directory

(URL ftp://ftp.eurisco.com/pub/eurisco)

SpeWare: an hypertext archive containing special-education and adaptive software from St. John's University

* Text Only Area

Speech-Friendly HTML Authoring Utilities for DOS

Macintosh Disability Shareware and Freeware

Simtel.Net's MSDOS "handicap" directory

URL: <ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/simtelnet/msdos/handicap>

The University of Utah's Center for Disabled Students' Service's FTP software site

(URL ftp://ssv1.union.utah.edu/pub/CDSS)

Citilink's SLIP/PPP DOS FAQ

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Adaptive Products and Services
(Companies Listed Alphabetically)

Note: The following index contains links to the homepages of individual companies which produce and/or distribute assistive devices. Please note that the inclusion of a company in this index does not constitute an endorsement of that company's products and/or services. Likewise, the exclusion of a company does not constitute a condemnation of that company, but is merely a reflection of my own ignorance. Therefore, visitors are strongly requested to report any broken or missing links in Camera Obscura's Adaptive Products Index.

Alphabetic Index

Companies Whose Names Begin with A

• AccessAbility: "a leading full service supplier of assistive technology products and services"
• Access First: adaptive technology vendor
• Acrontech
• AcuVoice, Inc.
  1. AcuVoice Products
• Adapted Computer Technologies (California, USA)
• Adaptive Solutions: adaptive technology and computer training by David Ogletree (Houston, Texas)
• ADEC Computers (Canada)
• AI Squared, manufacturers of:
  1. VisAbility
  2. ZoomText screen-magnification system
• ALVA Access Group (AAGI)
  1. ALVA Product List
  2. Braille Displays
  3. Screen-Readers and Speech Synthesizers
     1. outSPOKEN for Windows (screen-reader)
     2. outSPOKEN for Macintosh (screen-reader)
  4. Screen-Magnification/Enlargement Products
     1. inLARGE: screen magnification for the Macintosh
  5. Berkeley Access/AAGI FTP server
• Ambutech, manufacturer of superior mobility products, including the widest range of mobility canes, the broadest variety of tips, as well as support canes
• Ann Morris Enterprises Inc.: adaptive technology and access products vendor (NY)
  1. download Ann Morris Enterprises Catalog as a ZIP file
  2. text version of Anne Morris Enterprises catalog
• Apple Computer's Special Needs Solutions
  1. Apple's Built-In Accessibility Features for the Visually Impaired
  2. Vision Resources: Assistive Technology for the Macintosh Platform
  3. Speech Input and Output Solutions for the Macintosh
  4. Search Apple.com for Assistive Technology Products
• Arkenstone, pioneers in scanning and reading software, is now a division of Freedom Scientific
• AROGA Computer Group: Computer Solutions for the Disabled (Vancouver, Canada)
• Artic Technologies: talking electronic devices and software products, including WinVision (Troy, Michigan)
• Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA)
• AZtech Inc., a non-profit community-based assistive technology enterprise (Buffalo, NY)

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Companies Whose Names Begin with B

• Berkeley Access is now a subsidiary of Alva Access Group (AAGI)
• Betacom's Products for the Blind/VI (Canada)
• Beyond Sight (NOTE: ships to U.S. & Puerto Rican addresses only)
• Biolink Computer Research & Development, manufacturers of the Protalk screenreader for Windows 95 and Windows NT
• Blazie Engineering, producers of the Braille 'n Speak, Braille Lite, and Type 'n Speak lines of notetakers is now a division of Freedom Scientific
• Bossert Specialties Magnification Center (Phoenix, Arizona)
• BrailleJail: free online tutorials and much, much more
• BRL Inc.: Computer Products for Blind and Disabled PC Users, with an emphasis on braille
• Braillenovelts: a source for braille t-shirts and other braille and blindness-related novelties

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Companies Whose Names Begin with C

• Capital Technologies
  1. CapTech Presentation Monitors high-resolution flat-screen monitors
  2. Monitors for the Visually Impaired
• ChocoBraille: Braille Cards & Chocolates (Flushing, New York)
• Clarity Solutions: manufacturer of auto-focusing video magnifiers/CCTVs
• Compusult Limited's Accessibility Products
  1. ScanTELL: talking bar code reader
  2. Vindicator: speech-enabled LED event monitor
  3. DigiCite: talking digital display reader
  4. Responder: speech-enabled event imaging technology
  5. TexTalk: text-to-speech software
  6. TeleTalk: speech-enables telephone consoles
  7. WorkCam: electronic magnifier for the workplace
• CustomEyes Computer Systems (Ashland, Oregon)

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Companies Whose Names Begin with D

• Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology: manufacturers of the GOODFEEL Braille Music Translator and vendor of Braille music transcription Service
• DBB Software: producers of a Structured Text Document (STD) editor for producing structured text documents in XML using the DAISY/NISO standard for Digital Talking Books, as well as a Synthetic Talking E-Book generator (STEB) for producing a Digital Talking Book using synthetic speech
• after the Digital Equipment Corporation was swallowed up by Compaq, its web sites were dismantled, resulting in the utter disappearance of any information about the DECTalk family of synthesizers; while inquiries have been placed with Compaq, anyone with information about the fate of the DECTalk pages is asked to contact Gregory J. Rosmaita. In the interim, you might want to investigate the Dectalk files contained in the GW Micro Support Page
• Dolphin Computer Access LLC: based in central England, Dolphin (formerly known as Dolphin Systems, Ltd) distributes a number of highly sophisticated screen-access hardware and software products worldwide.
  1. descriptions of Dolphin's products
  2. demonstration versions of Dolphin's products
  3. News About Dolphin & its products
  4. technical support for Dolphin products
     1. Dolphin's Technical Support Archive
  5. White Papers from Dolphin
  6. list of dealers of Dolphin products (listed geographically)
  7. search the Dolphin Computer Access web site
  8. The Whistler: The Independent Computer Magazine for the Visually Impaired
• Dragon Systems (manufacture Dragon Dictate)
• Duxbury Systems

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Companies Whose Names Begin with E

• Enabling Technologies, Inc., the leading manufacturer of braille embossers, maintains an interesting and ever-expanding web site, at which you can browse--amongst other interesting items--the Enabling Technologies 1996 Catalog
• Enhanced Vision: a leading manufacturer of electronic magnification tools for people with low vision and macular degeneration
• En-Vision America: Products for the Blind and Visually Impaired (Normal, Illinois)
• Eurisco Information Systems
  1. Eurisco FTP Site
• Evan Kemp Associates
• EzHermatic: manufacturers of software for the blind, visually impaired and dyslexic, whose flagship product is PCVoz: a screen-reader that speaks english and español
  1. EzHermatic información en español

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Companies Whose Names Begin with F

• Ferguson Enterprises
  1. Ferguson Enterprises' catalog
• Festival Speech Synthesis System: a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system
• Freedom Scientific is an adaptive technology conglomerate, comprised of a number of formerly independent and autonomous entities -- in particular, the companies-formerly-known-as: Arkenstone, Blazie Engineering, and Henter-Joyce
  1. General Freedom Scientific Information
     1. Freedom Scientific Technical Support Start Page
     2. Service & Repair Information for Freedom Scientific Products
     3. Product Documentation
  2. Freedom Scientific's Notetaking Products
     1. Freedom Scientific's NoteTaker product catalog
        1. NoteTaker accessories
        2. NoteTaker software upgrades/downloads
        3. NoteTaker product documentation
        4. Service & Repair information
  3. Freedom Scientific's Screen-Reading Products
     1. download JAWS for DOS (fully functional & free!)
        1. JAWS for DOS Download Instructions (plain text file)
     2. JAWS for Windows Overview
        1. more detailed information about JAWS for Windows
     3. JAWS for Windows Technical Support Start Page
        1. Technical Support Notices
        2. Frequently Asked Questions
     4. Download a Demonstration Version of JAWS for Windows
     5. JAWS for Windows Pricing
     6. Jaws for Windows mailing list's home page
     7. Freedom Scientific FTP site
  4. Freedom Scientific's Screen Magnification Products
     1. MAGic: Screen Magnification with Speech
     2. MAGic pricing information
  5. Freedom Scientific's Scanning Products
     1. OpenBook (scanning & reading software)
     2. OpenBook pricing
     3. Learning Systems Software
• Frontier Computing (Ontario, Canada)
  1. Frontier Computing product catalogue and price list
  2. Frontier Computing's Swap Shop: buy, sell or trade adaptive products
  3. Express Brailler Repair and Maintanence
  4. Frontier Computing's Bulletin Board
• Full Life Products (text-only)
  1. Full Life Products (graphical version)

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Companies Whose Names Begin with G

• GW Micro, manufacturers of the Vocal-Eyes and Window-Eyes, 2 of the most popular screen-reading programs on the market. Since the Gw-Micro web site is not only "optomized" for javascript & frames-capable browsers, and lacks (amongst other things) a valid NOFRAMES equivalent, direct links to particular pieces of information are provided below; if you are adept at, or prefer to use frames, by all means do, but if you follow the links provided below, you may have to use your browser's back button to return to this page in order to traverse GW Micro's site
  1. GW Micro Catalog
  2. Technical Support for GW Micro products
  3. latest news from GW Micro
  4. The Voice of Vision, GW Micro's newsletter
  5. Set Files for Vocal-Eyes
  6. Set Files for Window-Eyes
  7. GW Micro's FTP archive
     (URL ftp://ftp.gwmicro.com)

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Companies Whose Names Begin with H

• Handy Tech Elektronik GmbH
  1. English version of the Handy Tech Site
• Henter-Joyce, manufacturers of the screen-readers JAWS for DOS (now available for free!) and JAWS for Windows (JFW), as well as the screen-magnification program MAGic, has been absorbed by Freedom Scientific
• Humanware

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Companies Whose Names Begin with I

• IBM Accessibility Center
  1. IBM Accessibility Solutions Product List
  2. HomePage Reader: A Self-Voicing Web Browser
     1. download a 30-day trial version of HPR 3.0
     2. IBM-HPR: a peer support emailing list
     3. Audio Brochure About HPR 3.0 (RealAudio format)
     4. Online Documentation & Technical Support for HPR
  3. IBM's Self-Voicing Kit (SVK): Native Speech in the Java Environment
     1. Technical Information About the SVK for Java
     2. IBM SVK for Java FAQ
     3. Download the SVK for Java from IBM's alphaWorks site
     4. About IBM-SVK: a peer support emailing list
• I Can See Books, is a Canadian company that produces Braille, cassette, and print/Braille books for all age categories, as well as offering over two dozen software titles designed to work seamlessly with all speech synthesizers and adaptive equipment for the blind and visually impaired
  1. complete list of programs offered by I Can See Books
  2. Talking Typing Teacher, a ground-breaking typing tutor
  3. Home Page Generator
• Independent Living Aids (Plainview, New York)
• Index Products: a major Swedish manufacturer of braille embossers
• Infogrip
• Innoventions, Inc. manufacturers of the Magni-Cam
• Interactive Online Solutions (IOS), designers of intranets, extranets, & web sites, as well as computer system setup and repair (Manitoba)
• isSound (the company formerly known as Productivity Works
  1. isSound/Productivity Works Product Index
  2. pwKiosk: ADA & FCC compliant Kiosk software solution
  3. pwTelephone (use any phone to surf the web)
  4. LpPlayer (simple SMIL & Open eBook player)
  5. pwSpeech (create self-voiceing applications)
  6. LpStudio PLUS (create, manage, & edit synchronized multi-media)

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Companies Whose Names Begin with J

• JBliss Imaging Systems for Low Vision Users
• J-Squared Access Solutions, a very wide selection of adaptive equipment, from talking devices to fully customized computer systems for the blind/VI and a hell of a lot in between... a highly recommended site, run by a highly reputable individual, JJ Meddaugh

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Companies Whose Names Begin with K

• KESI: Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inc.: "PC-based reading software that helps people who are blind, visually impaired, or have a reading difficulty to read the printed word."
• Keyboard Alternatives & Vision Solutions (Santa Rosa, California)

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Companies Whose Names Begin with L

• LAB Resources Assistive Technology: vendors of software and hardware for "special needs" and "special education" (Brookdale, Wisconsin)
• Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
• Lilliput Catalog of Products for Visually Impaired Children
• LS&S Group, a vendor of products for the visually & hearing impaired
  1. LS&S' Blindness & Low Vision Products
  2. LS&S' Products for the Hearing Impaired
• Lucent Technology's Text-to-Speech Synthesis
  • speech-friendly text-entry form

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Companies Whose Names Begin with M

• Maxi-Aids Products Catalog
• Mercator: a screen-reader for X Windows
• Microsoft Accessibility Program
  1. Resources Guide to Microsoft Products for Individuals with Visual Difficulties & Impairments
  2. Accessibility Features in Microsoft products
     1. Step-by-Step Tutorials for Making Windows XP Accessible
     2. Using the Windows XP Accessibility Wizard
     3. Windows Concepts for Win95 and NT, by Sarah Morley (self-extracting Word document)
  3. Assistive Technology Products for Windows
  4. AccessDOS
  5. Active Accessibility for Java Specification
  6. Microsoft Accessibility Resources for Developers and Authors
• MicroTalk: ASAW and ASAP screen-access programs
• Missing Link Technologies: computer-based solutions to vision, hearing, mobility, and learning handicaps (Kansas, USA)
  1. Missing Link Catalogs
• AccessMozilla: A Collective Approach to Building an Accessible Browser

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Companies Whose Names Begin with N

• NanoPac (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
• NDU Solutions, whose flagship product is the SpeakEasy Reading Machine: Scanning Print Made Easy

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Companies Whose Names Begin with O

• Optelec US, Inc.: Low Vision Products
• OliveTreeSoftware's Product Catalog

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Companies Whose Names Begin with P

• Parrot
  • News from Parrot
  • Parrot Plus: a voice-in voice-out PDA for the blind
• PC WholeWare: multimedia presentation and text-to-speech products for MS-Windows
• Perceptual Alternatives
• Pip Squeakers: baby shoes aid for parents and babies with disabilities; shoes squeak, so that parents can hear their baby when it is on the move
• Plextalk from Plextor (DAISY playback & recording)
• The POSSIBILITIES Company
• Pulse Data International (New Zealand)
  • Pulse Data International (Australia)

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Companies Whose Names Begin with Q

• Quantum Technology (Australia)

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Companies Whose Names Begin with R

• RWF Talking Software, dedicated to the research and development of home and office software products which "enable people with special needs"
• RJ Cooper & Associates' Special Needs Page
• Robotron: manufacturers of the Aria, the Eureka A4, and BrailleMaster (St. Kilda, Australia)

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Companies Whose Names Begin with S

• Scan And Say: a talking barcode system that allows the visually impaired to hear a scanned barcode
• ShrinkWrap Computer Products
  1. text-only catalog
• SightConnection: the Online Store of Community Services for the Blind & Partially Sighted (CSBPS), sells "more than 200 items designed to support the independence and well-being of people who are blind and visually impaired"
• Sighted Electronics
• SoftVoice, Inc. (manufacture the SoftVoice speech driver for SoundBlaster cards)
• Speech Systems for the Blind: high-quality text-to-speech programs for under one hundred dollars
  1. Winkline (screen-reader for Windows 3.x/95/NT)
  2. Seekline (DOS screen reader/runs on sound card)
• Starling Access Services concentrates on accessible web design & the repair of existing, inaccessible sites
• Sun Microsystems' Enabling Technologies Program
  1. Java Accessibility
  2. Sun Products and Solutions
  3. Sun Software Solutions
  4. "Towards Accessible Human-Computer Interaction", a whitepaper by Eric Bergman & Earl Johnson
• Syntha-Voice Computers, Inc.
  1. Synta-Voice Demos

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Companies Whose Names Begin with T

• Tack-tiles an innovative way to learn braille
  1. Tack-Tiles text-only version
• TalkingRx: a simple device used to record and listen to prescription information
• Talking Signs: infra-red transmitters that send messages from signs to a hand-held receiver
  1. Technical Details of Talking Signs
  2. Getting Acquainted With Talking Signs
  3. Locations in San Francisco
  4. Using Talking Signs on Buses
• Techno-Vision Systems Ltd.: one of the leading specialists in supplying adaptive equipment to the blind/vi in Britain and beyond
• TeleSensory Corporation
  1. Telesensory Product Information & Pricing
  2. Technical Support for Telesensory Products
  3. Retinal Scanning Display (RSD) Technology
• Tieman GmbH: electronische hilfsmittel für blinde und sehbehinderte
• Top Dot Enterprises Catalog (Everett, Wahington, USA)

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Companies Whose Names Begin with U

There are currently no companies whose names begin with the letter U listed. Please notify me of any companies whose names begin with U.

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Companies Whose Names Begin with V

• Vision Information Systems
• VoiSys International: manufacturers of speech recognition programs

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Companies Whose Names Begin with W

• Webel Mediatronics, developers of a text-to-braille transcription system featuring text-to-braille software in 12 regional Indian languages, a braille keyboard, an automatic braille embosser, and a tactile reader, as well as braille-to-text software in English, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, and Assamese, with development of similar software in other languages in process.

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Companies Whose Names Begin with X

• Products from Xerox
  1. Reading Edge the "Edge" in affordable reading
  2. Reading AdvantEdge, reading independence through your
  3. BookWise, The Wise Way to Read

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Companies Whose Names Begin with Y

• Young Opportunities, Inc. (Glenside, Pennsylvania)
• The Young Opportunities Catalog

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Companies Whose Names Begin with Z

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General Adaptive Technology Resources

• Glen Bracegirdle's GBNet is an online technology resource centre for blind and visually impaired people. GBNet contains a cornucopia of important, up-to-date information and tutorials including resources and information about web accessibility, adaptive technology, electronic books, web site tools, Java tools, related downloads, an extensive links directory, and much much more, including Glen's Personal Blog and Glen's Technology Blog.
• Ron Marriage's Adaptive Technology Links and Resources
• Sarah Morley's Windows Guides for Visually Impaired Users
• VIPACE's list of adaptive computer producers and vendors
• Craig Coleman and Christopher McMillan's excellent collection of Screen Reading and Large Print Tips for blind and visually handicapped PC users
• Information about The Whistler, "An Independent Computer Magazine for the Visually Impaired"

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Home Pages of Blind and
Visually Handicapped Individuals

• Nick Allan is not only the maintainer of the Jaws for Windows Emailing List's web site, but is also the list's listowner
  
  
• Dave Allen, proprietor of The Braille Shop's Home on the Web
  
  
• Alyzza's New Vision site contains quite an impressive list of links and resources
  
  
• Tom Baccanti's Outpost is a wide-ranging collection of information about, and links to, adaptive and assistive technology and other blindness-related resources
  
  
• Dave Baker's Quest Site
  
  
• Dereck Barnes' Audio Creations
  
  
• Pierre Berube's Shades of Gray on the DarkSide
  
  
• Jeff Bishop's Home Page
  
  
• Randy Black's Home Page
  
  
• Glen Bracegirdle's GBNet is an online technology resource centre for blind and visually impaired people. GBNet contains a cornucopia of important, up-to-date information and tutorials including resources and information about web accessibility, adaptive technology, electronic books, web site tools, Java tools, related downloads, an extensive links directory, and much much more, including Glen's Personal Blog and Glen's Technology Blog.
  
  
• the homepage of Tom Brennan, who is, quite possibly, not only the only totally blind audiologist/speech pathologist online, but perhaps in the world!
  
  
• Christopher Brodie and Carmelino Sacco maintain The AOFE Page
  
  
• braille transcriptionst and UCLA OSD staff member Patrick Burke's Home Page
  
  
• Charlie's Place, the homepage of CharlieF74
  
  
• Steve Clark's outstanding Speech-Friendly Web Site has been temporarily taken offline...
  
  
• Norman Coombs, professor of history at RIT and chair of EASI
  
  
• Rudi Canters' homepage is available in:
  • nederlandse or
  • english
  
  
• Luke Davis' page is temporarily unavailable
  
  
• Tom Dekker's TechnAbility Exchange
  
  
• Judy Dixon's Home Page
  
  
• JDD(Jeff): a lot of excellent "stuff" from Jeff D. Doran
  
  
• Kevin J. Doucet, the Original Cajun
  
  
• Alan Edwards's homepage
  
  
• Geoff Fierce's Interactive Online Solutions
  
  
• Art from the Mind's Eye by Lisa Fittipaldi, author of A Brush With Darkness
  
  
• Kelly Ford's CyberCorner
  
  
• Raul A. Gallegos' Corner on the Web
  
  
• Mando's Mundo, the web site of Armando Garcia, features (amongst other things) a list of Bay Area Resources for the Blind/Visually Impaired
  
  
• Chris Gilliard's HomePage
  
  
• David Goldfield maintains two web sites:
  1. The Eye of Orion
  2. The Techdesk
  
  
• The Humble Home of Robyn Grundy and David Truong
  
  
• Jeff Harris' Blind Man's Bluff on the Web
  
  
• Robert S. Harris's pages
  
  
• Andrew G. Hart
  
  
• Deborah M. Hazelton
  
  
• Barrie Heaton's Homepage
  
  
• Paul Henrichsen's home page which links to his excellent ftp site
  
  
• Fred Holly's Rubik Cube Designs, a tribute to a legally-blind Rubik's cube fanatic who designed cube-faces so that all might share in his passion for solving the cube
  
  
• Hoosier Hysteric Earlene Hughes
  
  
• Iwan's Home Page!
  • Japanese version
  
  
• the domain of the Cyber-Queen, Karolina Janiszewska
  
  
• Shawn Keen's Hideout
  
  
• The Blind Bookworm, formerly known as "Kestrell's Cauldron", is an intriguing collection of links and original writing
  
  
• Marty Klein's BLINDSPOTS: Movie Reviews for Visually Impaired People
  
  
• Tom's Place: the virtual mansion of Tom Lange
  
  
• Judy's Place the web site of Judy Larsen
  
  
• Rene Ludwig's homepage contains an excellent collection of German resources for the blind/vi, as well as a collection of DOS Internet Tools, including LYNX_KIT, a 1.1MB executable file which contains a DOS port of Lynx 2.8.2, along with a PPP Packet Driver, FTP and IRC clinets,
  • english version of Rene Ludwig's homepage
  
  
• John Lyon's incomparable Vision Impairments: A Guide for the Perplexed
  
  
• Jim Fettgather, a.k.a. JimKC's homepage
  
  
• Mike's Mess, the online home of Michael Gorman
  
  
• The Kolb's Home Page (Kathy and Lou Kolb)
  
  
• Scott K. Lawlor
  
  
• Marliana Lieberg's Cyber Patch
  
  
• Graham Lewis
  
  
• Mady's Resources Related To Blindness and Diabetes
  
  
• Zuhair Mah'd
  
  
• Sarah Mankowski is a multi-talented webmaster, site designer, and author who runs a web site named WordThunder for writers who publish and promote their works online. Sarah also maintains a site called urMyHero, from which you can, in Sarah's words: "download and print out little cards to hand out to express appreciation to those who make that extra effort to be helpful." -
  
  
• Ron Marriage's Blind Related Links is one of the longest-running and most comprehensive collection of blindness-related links on the 'net
  • Adaptive Technology
  
  
• Vincent Martin's Paralympic Quest... read about the first athlete from the United States to compete in the ParaOlympics' B1 (total blindness) category
  
  
• Deamar's Domain: the cyberhome of Dean Martineau, proprietor of Top Dot Enterprises
  
  
• Steve Matzura's Home Page
  
  
• Jamal Mazrui's Empowerment Zone: an encyclopedic site dedicated to "helping individuals and communities achieve self-actualization and full citizenship"
  
  
• SightLoss dot com--information about vision loss from Susan L. McNeish and dog guide Balsa. (Go ahead! Accept the cookie--it expires at the end of the session, but mind the MIDI!)
  
  
• Jason Mckinney's Web Page
  
  
• the inimitable (not to mention formidable, at least from a goalball perspective,) JJ Meddaugh maintains JSquared, a web site that not only informs and educates, but provides excellent deals on a wide variety of adaptive equipment, from talking products to fully customized computer systems for the blind/VI, through the JSquared Access Solutions accessible ecommerce site... it is also the home of the famously comprehensive and gloriously politically-incorrect Blind Joke Archive
  
  
• Michael Micallef's home page just happens to be the first home page in Malta completely designed and maintained by a blind individual--and it's quite a nice page, too...
  
  
• Jonathan Mosen's excellent web site, The Arena, is divided into three main sections:
  1. Blindness Arena
  2. News Arena, and
  3. Audio Arena: which contains links to over a thousand RealAudio sites
  
  
• Dan Murphy's home page
  
  
• news-maven extrodinaire Cathy Murtha's NewsStand is the masterlist of speech-friendly online newspapers, news sources, and magazines...
  
  
• Masafumi Nakane's homepage is also available in Japanese
  
  
• Robert Leslie Newman's Adjustment to Blindness and Visual Impairment site offers adjustment support and education through peer counseling via the web
  
  
• David Ogletree's Adaptive Solutions site contains a collection of Windows 3.x Tips
  
  
• Ann K. Parsons' Homepage
  
  
• Paul's Page: Autism and Blindness
  
  
• Harlowe Pease's Traveler's Road Signs
  
  
• Chris Peterson's Web the Way it Ought to Be
  
  
• Pleasant Ministries
  
  
• Pod's Inn, Jimmy Podsim's corner of cyberspace
  
  
• Jimmy Podsim's Very Own Place
  
  
• Dave Poehlman's ForePaws is the cat's meow...
  
  
• the homepage of T.V. Raman, author of Emacspeak, a speech output subsystem for Emacs and AsTeR, the Audio System for Technical Readings, a computer-based system which renders technical documents into audio, and the mind behind audio stylesheets
  
  
• Lloyd and Judy Rasmussen's home page
  
  
• Rebecca's Ravine and Abra's Auto Scoop Potty Park
  
  
• Jeff Redding, a legally blind veteran, maintains the following valuable resources:
  1. The Worldwide Virtual Community of the Disabled
  2. The Disability Related Book Store
  
  
• Greg Roggeman's Point of View: the world wide web from his own unique perspective...
  
  
• Damon Rose's home page is but a portal into the online and offline life, of Damon Rose, founder of the BlindKiss web site and podcast
  
  
• Camera Obscura, a.k.a. the womb without a view, is the dark and often disturbing (or is that merely disturbed?) world of Gregory J. Rosmaita
  1. Caveat Lector: etext archives, scholarly and academic resources, and electronic oddities
  2. The Virtual Museum: Text-Based Excursions to Online Exhibits
  
  
• James Ruby, author of the incredibly handy and easy-to-use Braille Book Review, Cassette Catalog, and Talking Book Topics reader/database manager, also maintains James Ruby's Web Stop
  
  
• Nantucket Lightship Baskets and Purses by Master Weaver Jymm Russell
  
  
• Janina Sajka's Stepping Tones
  
  
• Lisa Salinger's "Thoughts and Mindless Musings"
  
  
• Peter Scanlon's Scanno's Home Page
  
  
• Scotter's Low Vision Land
  
  
• The Zenith Tube, is the homepage of Phil Scovell, the man who once maintained the indispensible Internet Phone Book of Blind Users and Services
  
  
• Jim Shaffer's Cyber Blink
  • Blind Related Text Files
  
  
• Darrell Shandrow's Quest for Information pages supplement, and supplant, his old homepage
  
  
• David R. Sky maintains an excellent collection of resources of every ilk at his Evolving Life and Home Page.
  
  
• Kelly Sapergia's Home Page
  
  
• Jenine Stanley's Home of the Net's Greatest Guide Dogs!
  
  
• Expand Your World with David Tanner's Braille Bank On-Line
  
  
• Bruce Toews's homepage
  
  
• The Internet Kingdom of Viktor Tsaran, the undisputed Cyber-Tsar
  • Cyber-tsar's American Empire
  • MIDIporch
  
  
• Jim Vaglia's ChatterBox
  
  
• Mary Ward's Treasure Trove of Information and Files
  
  
• Jerry Weichbrodt's Pocket of Cyberspace
  
  
• Clarence Whaley's homepage
  
  
• Jeff White's Disability Site
  
  
• Kathy William's INSIDE OUT
  
  
• Are you or someone you know a blind Pakistani? Ever wonder what it is like to be a blind individual in Pakistan? Looking for Pakistani resources pertaining to blindness, as well as many other links of interest and utility? Then make haste to (and bookmark) Saima Yousaf's excellent web site, Beyond Our Vision, and be sure to check out her collection of resources pertaining to Islam
  
  
• Lynn Zelvin's Home Page
  
  
• Blind RAP: Resumes, Profiles, and Homepages of the Blind
  • Profiles
  • Homepages of the Blind (alphabetical listing)
  • Homepages of the Blind (regional listing)
  • Employment Related Links
  • Blind Related Bulletin Board.
  • Blind Webmaster's Bulletin Borad

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FOBs

• Bill Loughburough, inventor of Talking Signs's astoundingly interesting Disabilities/Industrial Complex: A Moral Alternative to War
  
  
• Judy Geva's ChocoBraille: Braille Cards & Chocolates
  
  
• Ginger Roe's fascinating and endlessly interesting With the Blind in Mind
  
  

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Employment-Related Resources

U.S. Employment-Related Resources

• AFB's National Employment Listings
• eSight Careers Network: A Bridge Connecting Business Leaders to Talent in the Disability Community
  1. eSight Careers Network Disability Employment Resource of the Day (that's right, it changes every day; make sure you bookmark this page if you're looking for a job!)
• CareerOneStop: a publicly funded resource for jobseekers, students, employers and human resource professionals, including a comprehensive collection of links and information on training, jobseeking skills, employment law, local service providers and one-stop centers, and much more. It also provides a searchable database and facilitates on-line posting of resumes for jobseekers, and job openings for employers.
• Cornell University Employment and Disability Institute offers a comprehensive collection of helpful publications on various aspects of employment, including legal issues, management and HR policies, accommodations for specific disabilities, and best practices checklists
• Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
  1. La Red de Acomodaciones de Empleo (JAN) informació en español
  2. JAN's Resources for Individuals with Disabilities
     1. JAN's Employment Links
  3. JAN by Disability, A to Z
  4. JAN's ADA Links
  5. JAN's Toolbox
  6. JAN's Consultants' Publication Picks
  7. Employer's Practical Guide to Reasonable Accommodation Under the ADA
• Office of Disability Employment (U.S. Department of Labor) (Note: ODEP was formerly known as the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities) It still provides information to assist businesses in implementing the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act
  1. Office of Disability Employment's Job Links
  2. The Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP) for College Students with Disabilities is co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and the Department of Defense. The WRP aims to provide summer work experience, and in some cases full-time employment, for college students with disabilities.

Canadian Employment-Related Resources

• Ejobs Canada: an employment portal
• JAN Canada

European Employment-Related Resources

• DWP's disabled people and careers resources (U.K.)

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Educational Resources Pertaining to
Blindness and Vision Loss

Reading Codes for the Blind

• About Braille: Codes, Formats, Computers, and Braille ASCII
• materials from the American Foundation for the Blind's National Braille Literacy Center:
  1. Free Items from The National Braille Literacy Center
  2. Bridging the Gap: Best Practices for Instructing Adults Who Are Visually Impaired and Have Low Literacy Skills
  3. Strategies & Resources for Teaching Braille to Adults
  4. ABLE-G: Adult Braille Literacy Empowerment Guidelines
  5. Braille Bug: A Resource for Kids
  6. Braille Resources for Parents
  7. Sources of Braille Children's Books & Magazines
  8. DOTS for Braille Literacy, a free newsletter about all facets of braille
     1. DOTS for Braille Literacy Archive
• AsTeR: Mathematics For Computer Generated Spoken Documents
• Braille Books Dot Com: The Braille Superstore can also be reached via phone at: 1 800 987 1231 (1 800 987 DOTS)
• BRL: Braille through Remote Learning
  1. Braille Contractions List
  2. Braille Contractions Look-up
  3. Braille-only Contractions
  4. Braille's Problem Words
  5. Summary of Braille Rules
  6. Excel file containing table of Braille contractions
  7. Electronic Braille Programs
• The Computerized Braille Tutor
• The Computerized Nemeth Braille Tutor
• produce (visual) braille on the fly with RNIB's Braille It!
  1. Advanced Braille It!: fill out a simple form to produce an ASCII-braille file, ready for embossing or viewing with the RNIB's braille TrueType font
• BrailleJail: free online tutorials and much, much more
• Bibles for the Blind and Visually Handicapped
• Bibles for the Blind produces Biblical and evangelical tracts for the blind and visually impaired
• Braille Links on the Internet from NYISE
• The Braille Literacy Page
• Braille Music Page, maintained by Brent Hugh
  1. Braille Music FAQ, maintained by members of BrailleM
• Braille Services Index from 20/20
• Braille Usage: Perspectives of Legally Blind Adults and Policy Implications for School Administrators
• Canadian Braille Authority/L'Autorit#é canadienne du braille (ACB): "Promoting braille as a primary medium for blind persons" / «Favoriser le braille comme média privilégié»
  • Canadian Braille Authority (CBA) - english home page
  • L'Autorité canadienne du braille (ACB) - information en français
• Computer Braille Facility
• Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology (manufacture the GOODFEEL braille music translator and provide an Automated Braille Music Transcription Service)
• DOTS for Braille Literacy, a free newsletter about all facets of braille
• DotsPlus
  1. Dotsplus--Better than Braille?
  2. Accessibility to Scientific Information by the Blind
• Liz Gray, a professional braille transcriber, maintains a web site which contains an excellent collection of braille-related resources
• The Future of Braille Access to Math and Scientific Notation,
• A History of Publishing for People Who Are Blind
• History of Reading Codes for the Blind (NYISE)
• Interactive Finger-Spelling and Braille Guide (University of Minnesota)
  1. General Braille information
  2. Interactive Braille guide
• International Council on English Braille (ICEB)
• Jewish Braille Institute of America
• Jewish Braille Institute of America
• Louis Braille and the Braille System
• Lutheran Braille Workers, Inc.
• National Braille Press
• Seedlings: Braille Books for Children
• Sources of Braille Reading Materials: A Reference Circular from NLS
• SGML: What and Why for Braille
• Speech-to-Braille Computer Interpreter from the University of Delaware's Information Access Laboratory
• Tack-tiles an innovative way to learn Braille

for more information about Braille and Braille-producing products, please consult the Braille Pages at Read 'Em and Speak, a site devoted to books and reading from a blind perspective.

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Tactile Graphics

• Blindness and Tactile Graphics Information Sources
• Guidelines for the Design of Tactile Graphics (American Printing House for the Blind)
• Tactile Graphics Consortium
• TDraw: A Computer-Based Tactile Drawing Tool for Blind People
• TouchGraphics: developing a tactile user interface for the blind
• The University of Delaware's Information Access Laboratory (IAL) sponsors several projects aimed at making visually presented material accessible to the blind and visually impaired students, including:
  1. Haptic Visualization
  2. Speech-to-Braille Computer Interpreter
  3. Tactile Visualization
  4. Virtual Scientific Instruments

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Resources Related to the History of the Blind and the Blind in History

• Blind & Sighted Pioneer Teachers in Nineteenth Century China & India
• Dog Guide History from Seeing-Eye
• Helen Keller home page
• Readings in Visual Impairment

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Resources Pertaining to the Education of the Blind

• ACVREP: Academy for Certification of Vision Rehabilitation and Education Professionals
• American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)
• AsTeR: the Audio System for Technical Readings, a computer-based system which renders technical documents into audio
• Barrier Free Education
• Books on Literacy, Communications, Braille from AFB Press
• Early Play & Toys for Blind/VI Kids: synopsis and analysis of the findings of 2 researchers who have worked extensively with young blind and visually impaired children. An excellent resource for anyone working with blind/VI children.
• Education of the Visually Impaired: A Core Cirriculum from Pleasant Ministries
• Guide to Resources for Children and Youth with Visual Impairments
• NHEST: Natural History, Education & Science is "an organization designed to bring education in science and natural history to special populations of children and adults, primarily by use of computer technology". The NHEST's current efforts are directed toward providing a variety of nature education experiences for blind and low vision adults and children. To this end the NHEST web site contains many sound files in both WAV and MP3 formats, and features, amongst other excellent resources, the Penquis Virtual Nature Center
• The New York Institute for Special Education "serving students with special needs since 1831"
  • Low Vision Access: High Contrast black background
  • "enhanced" for Netscape 2.0 with frames
  • Netscape 1 "enhanced" version
• Resources for Parents and Teachers of Blind Kids
  1. graphical version of Resources for Parents & Teachers of Blind Kids
• The Scottish Sensory Centre promotes and supports education of children and youths with sensory impairments
• Sites Pertaining to Visual Impairments, an index maintained by INDIE, the Integrated Network of Disability Information and Education (Canada)
• SpEdEx, The Special Education Exchange
• VIPS: Visually Impaired Preschool Services

Blind Art, Art Appreciation & Art Education for the Blind/VI

• The Tate Gallery's i-Map Project: The Everyday Transformed
  1. I-Map The Everyday Transformed: Each of the works in this collection offers a different approach to representing everyday objects from the everyday world. While the paintings depict recognisably real items like laundry, beer mugs and bananas, the collages bring fragments of the material world itself into the artworks. However, each artist tells a different story about our and their perception of the world, be it a commentary on the nature of representation, a desire to capture the lived experience of modern life, or the relationship between fine art and popular culture
  2. Raised Image and Audio Treatments of the Artworks Note: i-Map's raised images, although in PDF format, are designed to be created using swell paper and a heat fusing machine
  3. Animation & Audio Treatments, are designed for users with some useful sight. Each animated sequence is designed to take the user through an artwork step-by-step, avoiding overwhelming detail by building up the elements of the image slowly and gradually
• Access Art Project at the Dayton Art Institute
  1. example of Access Art: Claude Monet's Waterlillies

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Educational Facilities For the Blind

State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies compiled by Jamal Mazrui and Mark Senk

• American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)
• Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (Tucson)
• Blind Childrens Center Inc.
• Blind Mobility Research Unit of the University of Nottingham
• The Clovernook Center
• Delco Blind/Sight Center located in Chester, Pennsylvania, the center is operated by the Delaware County Branch of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind)
• Facilities for Students with Disabilities at the University of Lyons (mostly en français)
• The Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (Saint Augustine)
• Perkins School for the Blind
• Indiana School for the Blind (Indianapolis)
• Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School
• Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision (Mississippi State University)
• Royal National College for the Blind
• The Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (Ogden and Salt Lake City)
  
  
• Sensory Disability Research Unit of the University of Hertsford
• The Smith-Kettlewell Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
• UMass-Boston Vision Rehabilitation Projects
• West Virginia Rehabilitation, Research, & Teaching Center

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Orientation and Mobility Resources

O&M Sub-Index

1. General Orientation & Mobility Resources

2. Guide Dog Schools and Resources

3. Talking Signs

General Orientation & Mobility Resources

• University of Texas' Accessibility Institute

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Guide Dog Schools and Resources

• Guide Dogs NSW/ACT
• Guide Dog Schools in the United States, comprehensive list from the ACB
• Associations et Ecoles de Chien-Guides
  
  
• Croatian Guide Dog and Mobility Association
• Engel auf Pfoten (textversion)
  1. Engel auf Pfoten (frames & grafik)
  2. Angels on Paws (information in English)
• Guide Dogs of America (Sylmar, California)
  1. graphical ("full") version of the Guide Dogs of America site
• The Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Inc
  1. text-based version
  2. text based with reversed text
  3. text and graphics
• Paws for Independence, the web site of Southeastern Guide Dogs, Inc (Palmetto, Florida)
• GDBA: Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (United Kingdom)
• Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc. (San Rafael, CA and Boring, OR)
• Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Inc. (Smithtown, NY)
• Guide Dogs of the Desert, Inc. (Palm Springs, CA)
• Guiding Eyes for the Blind (Yorktown Heights, NY)
  1. Boone's Page, a page devoted to the black lab Steven and Margaret Fine are raising for Guiding Eyes for the Blind
• Isreal Guide Dog Center for the Blind (Tel Aviv)
• Leader Dogs for the Blind, Inc. (Rochester, MI)
  1. Rolla (Missouri) Lions' Club Leader Dogs for the Blind information page
• Royal Guide Dogs Associations of Australia
• Royal Guide Dogs Association of Tasmania
• SeeingEye (Morristown, NJ
• Southeastern Guide Dogs (Palmetto, FL)
  1. Southeastern Guide Dogs Outreach Office (Concord, NC)
• Jenine Stanley's Home of the Net's Greatest Guide Dogs!
• Service Dogs
  1. Dogs for the Blind
  2. Dogs for the Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing

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Talking Signs

Talking Signs: What They Are & How They Work

• Getting Acquainted With Talking Signs
• Locations in San Francisco
• Using Talking Signs on Buses

Talking Signs: White Papers, Presentations, & Research

• MoBIC: An Orientation & Navigation System for Blind Pedestrians
• Proceedings: Smith-Kettlewell Talking Signs Symposium '95
• Speech Intelligibility of the Talking Signs (Brabyn and Brabyn, 1982)
• An Evaluation of "Talking Signs" for the Blind (Brabyn and Brabyn, 1983)
• The Effect of Receiver Beamwidth on the Detection Time of a Message from Talking Signs, an Auditory Orientation Aid for the Blind (Schenkman, 1986)

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Legal Resources

Legal Resources Sub-Index

1. Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) Information

1A. White Papers on ADA and Access

2. Other U.S. Disability Related and/or Equal Access Laws & Regulations

3. Australian Disability Law

4. Canadian Disability Law

5. European Disability Law

6. La loi française et les droits relatifs aux handicapés (Francophone Legal Resources)

7. International Disability Law

8. Social Security Information

8A. Social Security Handbooks

Americans With Disabilities Act

• Department of Justice's ADA Home Page
  
  
• Americans With Disabilities Act Information from the Department of Justice's gopher
  1. ADA Telephone Information Services
  
  
• Janweb's Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center
  1. Public Law 101-336: The Americans with Disabilities Act
  2. ADA Highlights
  3. A Technical Assistance Manual on the Employment Provisions of the ADA
  
  
• The Access Board provides information, publications and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines for buildings and facilities, as well as the standards for electronic and information technology under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, and telecommunications equipment under Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act. The Board also has enforcement authority under the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA).
  1. ADA Accessibility Guidelines FAQ
  2. Accessibility Guidelines for Transportation Vehicles FAQ
  3. The Telecommunication Access Advisory Committee's Final Report, Access to Telecommunications Equipment and Customer Premises Equipment by Individuals with Disabilities
  
  
• The Kansas Commission on Disability Concerns maintains the ADA Information Center On-Line

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White Papers on ADA and Equal Access of Every Type & Stripe

• Applying the ADA to the Internet: A Web Accessibility Standard, by Cynthia D. Waddell, JD

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Other U.S. Disability Related and/or Equal Access Laws & Regulations

• full text of the Assistive Technology Act of 2004 (H.R.4278.ENR) (from Thomas)
• Section 508 Law (from section508.gov)
  1. Section 508 Standards (from section508.gov)
• Association of Assistive Technology Act Programs
  1. Policy Issue Analysis of The Assistive Technology Act of 2004 (AccessWorld, November 2004)
  2. RESNA's Assistive Technology Act of 2004 Review
  3. RESNA's National Assistive Technology Technical Assistance Partnership (NATTAP)
     1. RESNA's Assistive Technology Individual State Progams' Contact List
• AFB's Telecommuncations / Section 255 Information Portal
  
  
• Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
• USDoE's OSERS: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, is the portion of the department which "develops and implements policy and legislation that directly impact individuals with disabilities and their families. OSERS also plays a critical role in monitoring these laws and regulations." it also maintains web resources, some of which follow:
  1. current text of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - 5/31/05
  2. USDoE's Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)
  3. USDoE's Guide to Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)
  4. USDoE's Special Education Legislation, Regulations, & Guidance
  
  
• full text of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (statute and regulations)
  1. the HHS guide to Your Rights Under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
• THOMAS: U.S. Legislative Information on the Internet
  
  
• The Law Library of Congress
  1. GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Library of Congress), "a database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations"
  
  
• The U.S. House of Representatives' Internet Law Library contains a section devoted to Handicapped Individuals and the Law
  
  
• NATTAP's collection of and links to Laws and Related Regulations Concerning Assistive Technology
  
  
• A Citizens Handbook for the Rehabilitation Act (published by the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission)
  
  
• Cornell University's Legal Information Institute
  
  
• Legal Issues from SUNY-Buffalo's CODI pages
  
  
• ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
  1. AutoBOOK: ADA Disability Law Software and Subscription Service
  2. DOS demo for autoBOOK (882685 byte zipfile)

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Australian Disability Law

• South Australia
• Commonwealth
• Access-Able Travel Source

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La loi française et les droits relatifs aux handicapés
(Francophone Legal Resources)

• Informatique et Libertés: legislation française relatifs aux handicapés
• Francophone Legal Resources
• Textes officiels relatifs aux handicapés

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Canadian Disability Laws

• The Ontarians With Disabilities Act Committee
  1. Regional Contacts of the ODA Committee
  2. Major ODA Documents

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European Disability Laws

Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (c. 50)

full text of the U.K.'s Disability Discrimination Act, better known as the DDA, passed in 1995

RNIB's DDA Info & Resource home page

an excellent resource on the DDA from the Royal National Institute for the Blind

Disability Rights Commission of Great Britain

Note: despite the DRC's claims that it has extensively tested its site with actual disabled users, it isn't the most accessible site, to put it politely, and to add insult to injury, there are only -- at last visit, on 3 February 2006 -- 3 links located on the DRC's Easy-to-Read Home Page, which links to quite limited information, as compared to the "mainstream" version of the site, albeit in the most accessible format used anywhere on the DRC's web site

DWP's DDA Information for Employers

• email the webmaster with the URL of any European Disability Law site

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Indian Disability Laws

• Persons with Disabilities Act (India)
• Disability India
• Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities
  • Persons with Disabilities Act of India (Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities)

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International Disability Law

• UN enable: Promoting the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  1. Full Text of the UN's International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  2. Draft Optional Protocol to the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to be adopted simultaneously with the Convention
  3. About the Convention
  4. The Convention in Brief
  5. UN Factsheet: Some Facts about Persons with Disabilities
  6. Questions and Answers about the ICRPD

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Social Security Resources

• Social Security Administration Online
  1. SSA Publications in English
  2. Seguro Social: Información en español
  3. SSA Multi-Language Gateway (SSA information in Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Farsi, Greek, Haitian-Creole, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese)
  4. Social Security Agency Information
  5. Social Security Benefit Information
  6. Social Security FAQs
  7. A Guide for People with Disabilities Seeking Employment
• Information About Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
• SSA Handbook: Table of Contents
• The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
• Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
• General Services Administration
  
  
• Social Security Documents Mentioning Blindness (compiled by Eric Foss)
• Social Security Information from the Empowerment Zone

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Social Security Handbooks in Accessible Media

• Social Security Handbook (Fourteenth Edition, 2001)
  1. download the SSA Handbook (HTML in zip archive/1.07MB)
• A Guide for People with Disabilities Seeking Employment
• Social Security: If You Are Blind How We Can Help (SSA Publication: 05-10052/released March 2000)
• Disability (SSA Publication: 05-10029/released August 2000)
• Social Security Disability Programs (SSA Publication: 05-10057/released January 1997)
• Social Security: What You Need To Know When You Get Disability (SSA Publication: 05-10153/released June 1999)
• Social Security: Benefits for Children with Disabilities (SSA Publication: 05-10026/released October 2000)
• Working While Disabled... How We Can Help (SSA Publication: 05-10095/released May 2000)
• Receive Your Benefits by Direct Deposit (SSA Publication: 05-10057/released January 1999)
• Ticket to Work & Work Incentives Improvement Act Of 1999 (SSA Publication: 05-10060/released June 2000)

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Libraries for the Blind
(listed alphabetically)

• Dansk Elektronisk Blindebibliotek (Danish Electronic Library for the Blind)
  
  
• National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)
  1. Quick Search the NLS Catalog
  2. NLS' Single Term Search Form
  3. NLS' Multiple Term Search Form
  4. Voyager database interface search of NLs catalogs
  5. NLS' Accessible Magazine Program
  6. NLS Music Services
     1. NLS Music Services Catalog Order Form
  7. NLS Talking Book & Braille bibliographies
  8. Read Braille Book Review
  9. Read Talking Book Topics
     1. about Talking Book Topics
  10. List of Individual NLS Chapters/Affiliates
  11. NLS Eligibility Requirements
  12. Digital Books and Magazines
      
      
  13. hypertext interface for all of the Library of Congress' Online Catalogs
      1. Basic Search Form for entire Library of Congress catalog
      2. Guided Search Form for entire Library of Congress catalog
      
      
• Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
  1. Search the RFB&D's OnLine Catalog
  2. RFB&D's Custom Recording Service
  3. California - Los Angeles Unit of RFB&D
  4. New Jersey Unit of RFB&D
  
  
• Recording for the Blind Centre (UK)
  1. Search RBC's holdings via a (nicely tabindexed) hypertext form
  2. telnet connection to LIBERTAS, RBC's electronic catalog
  
  
• CAROLINE: the Electronic Information Network's online catalog of large print books
• National Library for the Blind (NLB) (UK)
  
  
• while the B&R Samizdat Express is not technically a "library for the blind" it is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in information in an electronic form
• Choice Magazine is a monthly audio anthology of articles, short stories and poetry selected from current magazines

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Large Print Sources & Resources

• Large Print & Low Vision Resource Network
  1. LinkSights: The Top Fifty Low Vision Sites
  2. The Large Print Literary Reader
  3. The Large Print Book Club
• an excellent index of Reading Materials in Large Print and Braille
• Large Print Direct
  1. Large Print Direct catalog

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Audio Description & DVS: Sources and Resources

DVS in the US

• Audio Described Programs Airing this month in the U.S.
• Access San Antonio (live audio description)
• Descriptive Video Service (DVS)
  1. DVS FAQ
  2. DVS on Television
     1. DVS on CBS
     2. DVS on FOX
     3. DVS on PBS
     4. DVS on Turner Classic Movies (TCM)
     5. DVS on Nickelodeon
  3. Accessible Home Video Catalog (WGBH)
  4. Accessible DVD Catalog (WGBH)
  5. DVS at the Movies
  6. DVS Guide: "a bi-annual newsletter and guide to what's available with DVS."
• DVS and the FCC

British (U.K.) DVS Resources

• Audio Described Shows on the BBC
• TV Help UK is a site that provides comprehensive information about audio description, as well as schedules of all audio described television programmes on British television
• Sky TV's Accessibility Information and Guide

Canadian DVS Resources

• AudioVision Canada (AVC), is Canada's first audio description service
  1. list of available titles

Australian DVS Resources

• Audio Description in Australia (TV, film, DVD, & live)

More DVS & Audio Description Resources

DVS Resources on the Web & in Educational Settings

• AsTeR: the Audio System for Technical Readings, a computer-based system which renders technical documents into audio
• aside from DVS, NCAM, the National Center for Accessible Media, spearheads a number of other important accessibility projects, including:
  1. MoPix: Motion Picture Access Project
  2. Adding Audio Descriptions to Science Programs
  3. Video Description for Non-Visually Impaired Individuals
• How to Make Movies Accessible, a white paper by Joe Clark
• Theater by the Blind

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Radio Reading Services

• Handi-Talk: a weekly RealAudio call-in show hosted by Michael Lauf
  1. live RealAudio broadcast Tuesdays at 8pm (US Eastern Time)
  2. listen to the latest show via RealAudio
  3. Past HandiTalk Shows in Realaudio
     • The good and bad of web design
     • Access to Jobs, Careers and Technology
     • Guide Dogs for the Blind
     • Web Accessibility Initiative 1.0
     • Mods for Quads and Free Computers
     • Microsoft Accessibility Advisory Council
     • Highlights from CSUN99
     • Abilities Expo
     • What is Easter Seals and what do they do?
     • Audio on the Net
     • Internet Access for All
     • Self-employment
     • Java and future technologies
     • Mobileword.com transcription service
     • Blind Broadcasters
     • Visually Impaired Computer Users' Groups
     • Open Ebook and Digital Talking Books (17 minutes)
     • The First Talking ATMs and the Future (14 minutes)
     • Browsing the Web by Voice
     • Radio Reading Services
     • Service Animals
  
  
  
• Horizons, the radio program of the Blind Citizens of Australia
  1. Horizons broadcast schedule
  2. download Horizons for off-line listening
  
  
• National Broadcast Reading Service, based in Canada, NBRS is the world's largest radio reading service
  1. VoicePrint schedule
  2. VoicePrint program descriptions
  3. list of cable TV systems that carry VoicePrint
  
  
• Radio Information Service, located in Pittsburgh, promotes the independence of the blind and print handicapped in Southwestern Pennsylvania and the surrounding area, by providing current information from print media which would otherwise be inaccessible...
  1. On Mike: the RIS Program Guide
  2. DataStream: computer-related articles read over RIS in the Pittsburgh/Three Rivers Area
  
  
• National Association of Radio Reading Services (NAARS): "An Association of Services for Print Disabled People"
• List of Radio Reading Services
• heARRSay: the newsletter of the Association of Radio Reading Services
  
• RealAudio Radio Reading Services

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Audio Streams, Archives, & Broadcasts

• Assistive Media: An Audio-Literary Service
  
  
• LibriVox: works in the public domain in MP3 format

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Blind/VI Atheletics and Athletes

• Alberta Sports & Recreation for the Blind
• Association Sportive pour Ambliopes, Aveugles et Voyants (ASAAV) (Poitiers, France)
• Association Sports et Loisirs pour Aveugles et Amblyopes (ASLAA) (Paris)
• Lynn Zelvin's Blind Sports Page
• Darren Hamilton's Goalball Links
  1. Goalball History
  2. How to Play Goalball
• International Blind Sports Association (IBSA)
  1. páginas de IBSA en español
• Judo for Blind Athletes
• The LAB Retreivers Beep Baseball Team (Lowell, Masachusetts, USA
• Queensland Blind Cricket Association
• Ski for Light: "a program of cross-country skiing, benefiting blind, visually- and mobility-impaired individuals and their guides"
  1. Michigan Ski for Light
  2. New England Regional Ski for Light
  3. Sierra Regional Ski for Light (California)
• United States Association of Blind Athletes (USABA): is the non-profit member of the USOC that trains blind and visually impaired athletes for national and international competition in nine sports

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General Disability Related Sites

• ABLEDATA
• Access America & Abroad: specialize in travel for the disabled
• Access Center for Independent Living (Dayton, Ohio)
• Alternatives
• The Archimedes Project
• CCIA project
  • Disability Resources for Canterbury New Zealand
• Cornucopia of Disability Information (SUNY-Buffalo)
• CKEWebsites' Links for the Disabled
• Disability & Medical Resources Mall
• Disabled Businesspersons Association
• The Disability Related Book Store
• The Disability Rights Activist
  • What Issues Are Hot Now?
• Disability Social History Project
• The Disability and Rehabilitation Clearing House, although physically located in New Zealand, is truly global in scope...
• Disability Resources, Products, Services and Communication
• UCLA's Disabilities and Computing Program (DCP)
• Disabled Peoples' International
• Diversity Web: "a resource hub for Higher Education" which "links colleges and Universities that are working to engage the diversity of American society"
  • Diversity Digest
  • Diversity Works Leaders' Guide
  • Work Rooms
  • Diversity Planning Manual
• Family Village: "a global community that integrates information, resources, and communication opportunities on the Internet for persons with mental retardation and other disabilities, their families, and those that provide them with services and support" (sponsored by the University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• FCC Disabilities Issues Task Force Homepage
• Full Rulle a Norwegian web site devoted to disability-related resources
• The Handicap Gazette/The Deaf Tribune
• Integrated Network of Disability Information and Education
  • Visual Impairment Sites
• The Library of Current Events in Human Services
  • Disability
  • Education
  • Medicine
  • Psychology
  • Support
  • Community
  • Miscellaneous
• National Clearinghouse on Managed Care: long-term services and support for adults with disabilities and their families
• NEADS: National Educational Association of Disabled Students (Canada)
• National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
• The New York Institute for Special Education
  • Blindness Resource Center
  • Blindness Resource Center-Large Print Version
• National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
• NICHCY: The National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities, an organization formerly known as "The National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities", is an information and referral center that provides free information on disabilities and disability-related issues, focusing on education, children, and youth, from birth to the age of 22
• Northamptonshire People First, "an organisation of people with learning difficulties speaking up for themselves!"
• OutLook Magazine
• The Three Rivers Free-Net's (TRFN) People with Disabilities Links
• The PeopleNet DisAbility DateNet
• Sensory Disabilities Research Unit (University of Hertfordshire)
• SESA: Special Education Service Agency
• Telematics Applications Programme for Disabled and Elderly People
• Toronto Disability Web
• Trace Research & Development Center (University of Wisconsin)
  • Accessibility Products for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, and Windows 95
  • Computer Access Program: Microsoft Windows
  • Trace Center Gopher
• UDIRCL: The Universal Disability Infrared Communications Link
• University of Minnesota Disability Gopher
• USC Disability Resources Gopher
• Untangling the Web: a comprehensive list of Disability-Related Web sites, maintained by Steven Fullmer at the West Virginia Rehabilitation Reasearch and Training Center
  • General Information Resources
  • Disability Legislation
  • Education
  • Visual Disability
  • Assistive Technology Resources
  • Medical Resources
  • Agencies, Programs, and Services
  • Employment Resources
• WebABLE!
• Western Disabilities Network, LLC
• World Association of Physically Disabled
• World Institute on Disabilities' Gopher
• an incredibly encyclopedic index is the World Information on Disabilities
• The Worldwide Disability Resources Directory (WDRD) (Germany)
• The Worldwide Virtual Community of the Disabled
• World of Wheelchair Basketball

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Things We Wish You Didn't Have to See

inspired not so much by the Disability Rag's similarly-named column, but by the oft-awe-inspiring inanity of the internet...

The Blind Leading the Blind

I'm not sure wether the most insulting thing about this site is the appalling and utter lack of ALT-text, or the embedded sound clip that greets you if you're surfing with a sound card and a GUI browser:

"You are welcome at the web site of the Blind Leading the Blind. Of course we have large print--just click on the red button!"

In an attempt to show BLB how to rectify the site's oxymoronic accessibility impasses, I contacted The Blind Leading the Blind Foundation in 1997. My offer of assistance wasn't acknowledged, but I was informed that -- since the purpose of the site, as well as the foundation, is to provide information about blindness and vision loss to the "sighted community" -- they weren't particularly worried whether or not anyone who was totally blind could access their site...

Hm... I suppose in the narrowest of sense, by hosting this web site, BLB may be fulfilling its stated mission -- "improving communication between the visually impaired and those with sight" -- but, after repeatedly visiting their web site, it sounds to me that they either need to change their name or their sound clip...

Foundation Fighting Blindness, Canada

When I first came across the Foundation Fighting Blindness, Canada web site, I observed:

They may call themselves the "Foundation Fighting Blindness" but a more apt name might be the "Foundation Fighting Reality", as the sole entry into their web site exclusively graphical -- without any alternative, let alone actual, text to be found. Hell, there's not even a "blind users enter around the rear" text-only backdoor.

After emailing a detailed emessage to the perpertrators, accompanied by corrected document source, and receiving no reply, I telephoned the organization, and -- after some initial dead-ends -- found myself speaking to the director of the FFB Canada and explained the problems -- and solutions -- to her. But, as the weeks turned into months, and no changes were made to the site, I authored the entry cited above. As of the autumn of 2004, however, I am "overjoyed" to report that the FFB Canada web site has finally addressed their site's front page's accessibility issues -- the FFB Canada entry screen now offers the blind/VI visitor the option of entering a "text-only" version of the site, alongside a (altogether now) "regular version", which is also available in "high-contrast" mode. Wouldn't it have been simpler to make the whole damn site accessible and aesthetically appealing? It is possible, or so I've been told...

Helen Keller International

There are no other words that describe the Helen Keller International web site more accurately (or succinctly) than "obscenely inaccessible". A harsh judgement? Indeed, but what else can one call a site, whose namesake, were she alive today, wouldn't be able to access, which for not only is the HKI site framed; none of the images have alternative text associated with them, making navigation virtually impossible

The Internet Braille Wizard

ah, now this is the type of cybersilliness which warms the cockles of my heart--the Internet Braille Wizard, which performs braille translation on the fly... A miracle of modern technology, eh? Only problem is, the output is graphical--not tactile...

When the page was first made public, the graphical representations of the braille cells lacked ALT tags, so it was impossible for me to verify if it translated the english equivalent of

dots 1,2,4 dots 1,3,6 dots 1,4 dots 1,3 space dots 1,3,4,5,6

correctly... They've since added ALT tags to most of the braille cell graphics, but how am i to know whether or not the IBW correctly translated my favorite phrase? I'd prefer ALT tags that contain the dot numbers of the cell-image, rather than have all or part of the letters I typed into the text-entry field echoed back to me--moreover, that would solve the problem of ALT-tagging those tricky contractions that have more than one meaning, depending upon how they are used and/or where they are placed..

And so, I still say, oy vey! What'll they think of next? .wav files to illustrate ASL?

Worst Web Pages of Congress

Proof of Mark Twain's adage that "the opposite of progress is Congress"... Speech-hostile and poorly designed pages from the folks who brought you higher taxes and themselves higher salaries...

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Terra Infirma:
Unorganized Links in an Ordered List

1. Self Illuminating Bubbles
2. Cooperative Electronic Library
3. CPSR
4. Project PURSUIT
5. Rand Eye Institute
6. Disability Net: Holiday/Travel Information
7. Disability and Information Resource Centre
8. Blind and Visually Impaired
9. Internet Resources Database from Germany
10. University of Toronto English Library
11. Speech Toys Index (Text Only)
12. Special Education Resources
13. Access info 3/6/96
14. Young Opportunities

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Terminal Index

1. Caveat Lector

2. Hystery, Mistory, Prophecy

3. Civitas: Link Locally, Act Globally

4. Mea Maxima Culpa

5. Read 'Em and Speak: Books & Reading from a Blind Perspective

6. Speech- & Text-Friendly Search Engine Forms

7. The Virtual Museum

8. return to Camera Obscura's front page

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Contents of this page last updated January 29, 2010