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caveat lector
etext archives, electronic reading rooms,
reference works, and literature...

• Electronic Text Archives
• Academic Archives and Scholarly Resources
  • Anthropology and Cultural Studies
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• Virtual Libraries
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• Online Reference Works
  • a large selection of dictionaries
  • query submission forms for a number of thesauri
  • telephone directories
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Reformatted speech- and text-friendly query-submission forms for the web's most powerful search engines, including:

Alex and Alcuin,

Alta Vista,

Excite,

Dogpile

Infoseek,

LookSmart,

Lycos,

Magellan,

MetaCrawler,

Open Text Index,

Veronica,

WebCrawler,

and Yahoo!

Newspapers, News Services, and
'Zines of Every Ilk...

• Newspapers
• Electronic Journals
• Zines: e and otherwise
• News Services
• Journalistic Resources
• Broadcasters

The Virtual Museum:
text-only links to online exhibits

• Holy Days of Obfuscation
• Unholy Days of Obfuscation
• Library of Congress' Today in History
• Tennessee Tech's collection of "Today in History" engines
• Today's Historic Events and Birth Dates (Scopes Systems)
• What Happened on Any Day in History
• Saint of the Day
• How Many People Are There in the World Right Now?
• Current Population of the United States

Civitas:
link locally, act globally...

• U.S. Governmental Resources
  • The Federal Legislature & Legislative Resources
  • The Executive Branch
  • The Judiciary
  • General Governmental Resources
  • State and Municipal Governmental Resources
• Canadian Governmental Resources
• International Governmental Resources
  • The Electronic Embassy
• Humanitarian Organizations
• Food for Thought

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Blindness-Related Resources on the Web and Beyond

• General Blindness-Related Resources
• Blindness-Related Gopher Servers and BBSes
• Blindness-Related Organizations
• Vision Loss
• Assistive Technology
• Access to Technology: White Papers & Projects
• Speech-Friendly Applications & Utilities
• Adaptive Products & Services
• Home Pages of Blind & Visually Impaired Individuals
• Employment-Related Resources
• Educational Resources Pertaining to Blindness & Vision Loss
• Legal Resources
  • Americans With Disabilities Act Information
  • Social Security Information
• Libraries for the Blind
• Audio Description: Sources & Resources
• Things We Wish You Didn't Have to See
• General Disability Related Sites

Comprehensive List of Blindness-Related Emailing Lists

subscribe to over one hundred and ten blindness-related emailing lists directly from this continuously updated index, which is also available as a plain ASCII file or as a zipped ASCII file or a zipped HTML file

mea maxima culpa:
guilty pleasures and other inanities...

• Musicana
• Yucks
• Mind Games
• 'Zounds, What Sounds!
• Assorted Nuts
• Unsorted Nuts

caveat emptor

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

adaptive equipment, software repositories, and commercial sites

oh, what a tangled web we weave...

• Navigating With Lynx: An Interactive Tutorial
• Using Lynx to Learn, Design, and Edit HTML
  1. How to Let the World Know Your Pages Exist
  2. Speech-Friendly HTML Authoring Utilities
  3. The Proper Use of ALT Tags
• Designing Accessible Web Pages
  1. Accessibility Issues as Addressed by W3C
  2. Accessibility in Theory and Practice
  3. Web-Access Related Emailing Lists
  4. White Papers on Web Accessibility
• General HTML Documentation and Information
• Resources for Webmasters and Web Consultants

SLIRP is freeware which allows you to simulate a SLIP/PPP connection from a shell account. SLIRP is the perfect way to either test how your screen-reader works with a graphical browser before you spend your hard-earned cash on a PPP account, or how well the various windows-based screen-reader demos you've downloaded work in a graphical environment, before you spend your hard-earned cash on yet another screen-reader...

theDirectory, "the most complete directory of Internet Service/Access Providers & BBSes available online", contains information about ISPs in over 100 countries, organized by area code...

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  Contents of Camera Obscura last modified January 10, 2012