- AccessDome - Resources for
the blind. A web portal designed to enhance vision impaired and print
restricted access to the web.
- Accommodations
for Visually Impaired Students- Tips for adapting your classroom.
- Artificial Vision - Homepage
- The Dobelle Institute (Portugal) Lda. announces development of an
artificial vision system providing independent mobility to blind people.
- Blind BBS - a
list for the discussion of issues concerning the blind
- The Blind Readers Page - A
source of information about books and reading, blindness and other disabilities
and library services for the blind and physically handicapped.
- Blindness Emailing
Lists - Subscribe to blindness-related emailing lists and pan-disability
and access-issues lists directly from this comprehensive hypertext index.
- Blindskills, Inc. - Offers
solutions and answers to questions regarding blindness, visual impairment
and vision loss.
- Community Services for the Blind and
Partially Sighted - Provides assorted information and resources
for visually impaired people.
- Ellen Bomer - Survivor
- The story of Ellen Bomer's recovery. After being blinded in the 1998
US Embassy Bombing in Nairobi, Kenya Ellen is still working toward recovering
her lost eyesight.
- Empower
Connection - Technology for the Blind - Information and help for
people using assistive Internet technology.
- Enablers for visually impaired
young adults with learning difficulties - Resource and contact site
for enablers working with visually impaired young adults with learning
difficulties.
- Envision
- Flash presentation on the research at the Duke University Eye Center
to eliminate blindness.
- The Eye
- Includes what to do when meeting a person with vision impairment,
the signs of vision loss, legal blindness, braille and other health
related links.
- History of Reading
Codes for the Blind- Discusses major works and contributors.
- Information
about Vision Loss and Blindness - Information and diagrams with
links to other helpful sites.
- Kenneth Jernigan:
'power to the blind' - Article on the late director of the Iowa
Commission for the Blind.
- Lenny McHugh's Home
Page - Inspiring and motivational real-life stories from Lenny,
who is a retired blind computer programmer. Includes links to many other
resources for the blind.
- Louis Database - Database
of accessible materials for people who are blind or visually impaired.
Contains information about more than 145,000 titles of accessible materials,
including braille, large print, sound recordings, and computer files
from over 200 agencies throughout the United States.
- Questions From Kids About Blindness-
Provided by the National Federation of the Blind.
- Recording For The Blind and Dyslexic
- Educational library for people with print disabilities, with a 77,000-title
library of taped textbooks, reference and professional materials for
people who cannot read standard print because of a disability.
- Talking Software
- Offers a word speech enabled dictionary and thesaurus for blind users.
All controls are designed with unsighted user in mind.
- Teaching Math to Visually Impaired
Students- Offers good teaching strategies.
- Video Description by Narrative
Television Network - Makes movies and television programming accessible
to blind and visually impaired people through narration.
- Vis-Ability (DK) - Supplies
electronic aids for the visually impaired.
- The Voice
- Translates images from a camera into sounds that one hears via stereo
headphones and targetting vision substitution for the totally blind.
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