Resources For The Blind

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Products

• Vision America Assistive Technology for the Blind and Low-vision Community

  - Accessible Prescription Label Program Now Free For Blind Americans

  En-Vision America, Inc. is a company providing high-tech products aimed at solving problems for those with visual impairments. Located in Normal, Illinois, En-Vision America has successfully introduced several voice-enabled products like i.d. mate OMNI, the talking bar code reader, and ScripTalk, the talking pharmaceutical reader. Originally founded by Philip C. and David B. Raistrick in 1996, the cornerstone of the company was based upon one single premise: To provide customers with greater independence through technology.

• A T Guys, Your Assistive Technology Experts
• Horizons for the Blind Horizons for the Blind is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people who are blind or visually impaired, through our consumer products and services, the cultural arts, education and recreation.
• LookTel: The Future of Mobile Accessibility - LookTel is a company whose aim is to sell software than can be downloaded onto mobile devices, making them completely accessible to the visually impaired in ways that are truly incredible. The software they've designed will be tethered with camera enabled smart phones and features artificial sight programs used to identify objects and landmarks.
• Products for Blindness, Low Vision & Learning Disabilities - HumanWare USA - HumanWare products are designed to last, to grow (and in many cases, to go) with the user. Giving them the independence to compete effectively with peers, to feel connected – to be a vital part of the global information age in which we live.
• ShopLowVision.com - Founded in 2007, LowVision.com was created to become the resource center for Low Vision. Recognizing the need, Lynne Noon, OD and Optelec U.S., Inc. joined forces to fill in the gap between patient and doctor in the Low Vision Industry. The purpose was to give patients, friends and family of patients, and doctors a forum to find all their answers and solutions in one place. With that concept in mind, LowVision.com is the one stop shop for all low vision needs. Whether it is information, news, discussion groups, or products, LowVision.com is dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with visual impairments.
• Orbit Research - Orbit Research is dedicated to the development of products for the physically challenged. Our mission is to employ cutting-edge, mainstream technology to develop innovative products that are essential for an independent and productive lifestyle. Our primary goal is to make these products available to the community at a price everyone can afford.
• Independent Living Aids - independent living aids, inc. is the oldest privately-held, mail-order company in the United States of products for individuals who are visually impaired or blind.
• Welcome to Blind Mice Mart - Why shop anywhere but Blind Mice Mart? Purchases fund the Mouse Hole Scholarship Program and do not go into the pockets of the MICE! Your purchase goes back to the blind community by funding scholarships for the visually impaired and sponsoring Cooking in the Dark!! Last year shoppers purchases raise $2,250.00 for scholarships! We challenge you to find anyplace that does this!
• Low Vision Aids | Hard of Hearing | Magnifiers | Assistive Technology - LS&S Products - LS&S has served the needs of the visually impaired and hard of hearing for over 27 years. In June 2001, LS&S experienced a new beginning and a new invigoration of its operations, marketing, and customer service when we acquired the company from its founder. When Melissa’s father developed the wet-form of macular degeneration, we realized how important a resource a company like this could be. Living with a family member with low vision and experiencing the related challenges.
• MaxiAids.com, - Products for Independent Living. For blind, low vision, deaf, disabled, handicapped
• Deals & News for the Blind & Visually Impaired at BlindBargains - Welcome to BlindBargains, your home for the latest deals and bargains for the blind and visually impaired.
• The Braille Superstore -We have tons of Braille books and cool products.
• Welcome to Bay Area Digital - Bay Area Digital, LLC leads adaptive technology companies worldwide in researching, developing and marketing accessible medical products for blind and visually impaired people. When selecting a product to make accessible, we focus on the most modern, state-of-the-art, best-of-breed, and innovative equipment manufacturers in the medical industry. We examine their cutting edge products and, working in partnership with these companies, we create a version of that product that is accessible to blind and visually-impaired people.
• LSSProducts.com, Products for the Visually Impaired and Hard of Hearing - LS&S has served the needs of the visually impaired and hard of hearing for over 26 years. In June 2001, LS&S experienced a new beginning and a new invigoration of its operations, marketing, and customer service.
• TalkingThermostats.com - Comfort Solutions for seniors and persons who are blind, visually impaired or disabled VIP Series of residential Talking Thermostats that promote independent living
• Ankenbrant Enterprises: The New Vision Store - Welcome To The New Vision Store
• Talking Rx - Talking Rx® is a simple, yet effective solution that provides audible guidance in taking medications. The device attaches to common-sized prescription bottles and contains a memo recorder that allows a physician, pharmacist, caregiver, family member or patient to record necessary information about the medication.
• Assistive Technology - The EnableMart mission is to market, promote, and distribute innovative technology-based products and services that promote independence, enhance productivity, and change the lives of individuals with disabilities. /li>
• Innovative Rehabilitation Technology, Inc. - IRTI has been In business since 1979, providing everyday useful products as well as high tech innovations for the blind, visually impaired, individuals with dyslexia and learning disabilities.
• American Council of the Blind - The American Council of the Blind is the nation's leading membership organization of blind and visually impaired people. It was founded in 1961 and incorporated in the District of Columbia.
• National Federation of the Blind - The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight. The real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of information that exist. If a blind person has proper training and opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a physical nuisance.
• Cobolt Systems Ltd - U.K. based company specialising in the design, manufacture and supply of innovative aids for the blind and partially sighted.
• Freedom Scientific - Welcome to Freedom Scientific, the world’s leader in assistive and adaptive technology for individuals who are blind, or have low vision or learning disabilities. Our products include screen reading software for the blind, magnification software for those with low-vision, and other products for accessible scanning and reading, as well as braille displays, notetakers, and the world’s leading accessible PDA for the blind.
• Welcome to GW Micro - Since 1990, GW Micro has been a trusted pioneer in the adaptive technology industry, and continues to lead with innovative, customer driven solutions.
• Serotek Home Page - Our mission is to develop innovative, affordable and easy to use products that best meet the needs of individuals while using Universal Design principles.
• Code Factory: Making mobile phones and PDAs accessible to the blind and visually impaired - Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Terrassa/Barcelona, Spain, Code Factory is the global leader committed to the development of products designed to eliminate barriers to the accessibility of mobile technology for the blind and visually impaired. Today, Code Factory is the leading provider of screen readers, screen magnifiers, and Braille interfaces for the widest range of mainstream mobile devices including Symbian-based and Windows Mobile-powered Smartphones.
• ai squared - making accessibility simple - Having trouble seeing your computer? Ai Squared is here to help – for over twenty years, we’ve been helping people use their computers with greater comfort and ease. We offer a range of screen magnification and screen reading software products to fit anyone’s needs. Whether you are visually impaired, or squint at your computer screen and lean in to read the fine print, we have a solution for you.

Services

• Wordsmith.Org - The wordserver is a public access reference server. It offers a set of reference services using email.
• Read This To Me - "Read This To Me" allows blind and low-vision people to have printed documents read to them over the phone.  All the blind person needs is a phone line and a fax machine (no computer is required.)
• Recording For The Blind And Dyslexic - The nation's educational library for those with print disabilities. RFB&D Individual Membership is now FREE. Thanks to major funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Grant #H327D090001 and support of private donors, RFB&D Individual Membership is now free to individuals with proper certification.
• Weather Underground Braille Page - Find the Weather for any City, State or Zipcode, or Country
• World eBook Fair - Welcome to the home of the World eBook Fair, the largest showcase for eBooks, eBook publishers, editors, and others working in the new world of eBooks.
• Welcome to AccessiblePrograms.com - Your stop for quality free and low cost JAWS scripts.
• Premier Assistive Technology, Inc. - We Make Reading Easy, our mission is to enrich and improve the lives of millions of people worldwide by making information truly accessible through the use of affordable technology.
• Braille International Home - Braille International, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the independence and quality of life for blind persons everywhere.
• Enabling Technologies - Blindness, Technology & Computing - Text Links
• Mind’s Eye Travel - Mind’s Eye Travel creates tours for people who are visually impaired or blind. Our hosted trips let both visually challenged and fully sighted people tour comfortably and free of worry. The itineraries are customized not only for comfort, camaraderie and enjoyment, but also for full sensory discovery, and they offer options for independence. Our destinations are carefully screened and I hand-pick activities, restaurants and lodging while keeping in mind our needs as visually impaired and blind travelers.
• Hadley School for the Blind
• TV and movie guide: Zap2it.com
• Blind Cool Tech Podcast - Blind Cool Tech is a podcast that brings some fun, education, and variety into your mp3 player. The show provides interviews, brings you along on sound seeing tours, and discusses life and cool technology, especially technology that blind people can use.
• Optasia Ministry - Optasia Ministry is a non-profit organization with the mission: To provide Christian ministry resources for those with visual disabilities and other disabilities who can benefit from text in alternative format.
• Welcome to Gateway For the Blind, your Gateway to independence. - We offer to you the very best in adaptive technology training. Our professional staff is equipped to give you a full line of service for your computer needs.

Games

• 7-128 Software - Computer Games for Everyone - Welcome to 7128.com, where you can get games that are entertaining, easy to understand, and reasonably priced. By making our games accessible to gamers with special needs as well as those less challenged we make them easier to use for all.
• PCS Games Home Page - We make audio amusements that tickle your ears! A daunting compendium of most Windows games for the blind.
• RS Games home page - Welcome to RS Games making games and software for you, owned by Ryan Smith. I am a developer, making free accessible software, products and games. Be sure to check out the latest news right here.
• Nick's Mathematical Puzzles - Accessible math puzzles on a range of topics.
• Welcome to All inPlay. Accessible Online Games. - All inPlay is a place where blind and sighted folks from all over the world can come together to play accessible online multiplayer games.
• Card games from BlindAdrenaline! - Blind Adrenaline Simulations Games by one of us, for all of us.
• Blind-Gamers - This page is devoted to games specifically designed for vision-impaired and blind players. All games from Spoonbill Software are absolutely free of charge.
• AudioGames, your resource for audiogames, games for the blind, games for the visually impaired! - AudioGames.net is a site dedicated to audio games (games based on sound) and blind-accessible games. Originally this site started out as a database of audio games only, but due to the massive response of the blind community, we've broadened the scope of the website.

Support

• John McMahon's Visually Impaired Forum - These forums are here for the use of RP'ers and their families and friends.
• Welcome to I Can Work This Thing - Lots of folks who are blind throughout the years have had in their possession something that they could not work. Then they found a manual in a form that they could read, or had someone read the manual to them and somehow learned to work that thing. Maybe that thing was a piece of amateur radio equipment, a radio scanner, a cell phone, or digital recorder and the list goes on. As they learned how to work that thing, they made notes and developed quick guides or cheat sheets to make it easier for them to work that thing. More and more folks are sending us these cheat sheets or quick guides; information on how to start using that particular thing.
• The Blind Handy Man Files Page - Some of the files on this page may contain Copyright information and Remain the Ownership of the Copyright Owner, and that these files have been sent in by blind Handy Man List Members and compiled for their use. This web site has been designed for the blind using screen reader technology, as a result some of the pages might not format correctly for a sited person
• A warm welcome from all of us at VIP Conduit. - You may wonder how we got our name. The acronym VIP has the traditional meaning "very important person", but in some circles it also stands for "visually impaired person". We believe that all of our visitors and guest are VIP's in the traditional sense but VIP also describes the group we serve.
• Access Technology Institute - Mailing Lists
• ADA & IT Information Center
• Fred's Head Database: American Printing House for the Blind - The Fred's Head Database is a source of tips and techniques for and by blind or visually impaired individuals.
• American Council of the Blind - The American Council of the Blind is the nation's leading membership organization of blind and visually impaired people. It was founded in 1961 and incorporated in the District of Columbia.
• National Federation of the Blind - The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight. The real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of information that exist. If a blind person has proper training and opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a physical nuisance.
• Community Association of the Blind - The purpose of this organization is to create a stable and rich environment which will help to meet, foster and enhance the vocational, recreational, social, and personal needs of each blind and visually impaired person in their community.
• Ron Marriage's Blind Related Links
• Blindness Resource Center Index - text version
• Top Ten Links - Blindness
• Yahoo! Directory - Retinitis Pigmentosa
• Welcome To The Accessible Devices Home Page - The Accessible Devices event came into existence in June of 2002. When we realized that while the sighted community had easy access to virtually any product not all of them were accessible to us. When individual members of the Blind community found a product that was accessible, there was no means of sharing that information with others. The Accessible Devices event was an attempt to fill that need.
• Blindleader Welcomes You to BlindLeader Services Web Page - BlindLeader amateur radio, hams, Resources along with ADA and Blindness Information
• International Association of Assistance Dog Partners - A non-profit, cross-disability organization representing people partnered with guide, hearing and service dogs.
• Guide Dog Users, Inc. - Guide Dog Users, Inc. (GDUI) is an international organization dedicated to advocacy, peer support, public education and all aspects of training, working and living with dogs specially-trained to guide blind and visually-impaired people.
• the Lilac Blind Foundation - Since 1971, the Lilac Blind Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, has been helping blind and partially sighted people take back control of their lives.
• ADI - - Audio Description International - ADI, Audio Description International, supports and advocates increased use of Audio Description (AD) in a variety of media around the world. The members of AD International are both professional and amateur Audio Describers, AD consumers, and those interested in promoting the use of AD (See our list of AD organizations around the world.)
• RP and General Blindness Mailing Lists
• Yahoo! Group "Retinitis Pigmentosa"
• Woodworking for the blind - This website is composed and edited entirely by blind woodworkers who are members of Woodworking for the Blind and participate in a Yahoo Groups forum answering each other's woodworking questions and exchanging information about tools, techniques and projects. The website will archive important how-to-do-it information and resources for blind and low-vision woodworkers.
• The Blind Woodworker - This is a place where blind & sighted woodworkers can share with each other techniques and abilities that lead to safe & successful woodworking.

Other Educational Links

• The Eye - Information vision loss and blindness
• John Weinberg's RP Site - Information and links for people with Retinitis Pigmentosa and other retinal degenerative diseases
• Blind Corners - welcome to Blind Corners! Here you will find lots of different things on many different topics!
• Tom Lorimer's Home Page - Assisting the Visually Impaired computer user in locating information and services relating to blindness
• Lisa Fittipaldi - Abstract and Contemporary Art by Blind Artist.
• Retinitis Pigmentosa Overview - Funded by the NIH, Developed at the University of Washington, Seattle
• The Clicker Center: The Panda Project - Guide Horses For The Blind
• Dan Shaw's Home Page - Dan Shaw and Cuddles. World's first Guide Horse and Owner.
VAL SMITH A TEACHER OF THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED - My name is Val Smith and I have written various papers regarding the teaching of information and technology for the blind and visually impaired. The location of this training is in Wolverhampton at the Adult Education Service and Beacon Centre for the Blind. www.beacon4blind.co.uk

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