Services for the Blind/Visually Impaired

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Educational link data base. Search our collection of annotated online resources (hyperlinks) for parents, students, teachers, and educational administrators through the Educational Links database.
http://www3.edu.gov.mb.ca/edulinks/areas.jsp

Closing the Gap, Inc is an organization that focuses on computer technology for people with special needs through its bimonthly newspaper, annual international conference and extensive web site.
http://www.closingthegap.com

WebABLE is the authoritative web site for disability-related Internet resources. WebABLE'S accessibility database lists hundreds of Internet based resources on accessibility.
http://www.webable.com

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) in coordination with organizations around the world, is pursuing accessibility of the Web through five primary areas of work, technology, guidelines, tools, education & outreach, and research & development.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is a research and development facility that works to make media accessible to unserved populations such as disabled persons, minority-language users, and people with low literacy skills.
http://ncam.wgbh.org

SNOW (Special Needs Opportunity Windows) web site has sources of original information on special education and technology in the classroom.
http://snow.utoronto.ca

NCIP (National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education) seeks to improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities by promoting the effective use of assistive and instructional technologies among educators and related personnel serving these students. http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/

Bobby is a web-based public service offered by CAST (Centre for Applied Science Technology) that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities as well as their compatibility with various browsers.
http://www.cast.org/bobby/

Founded in 1875, the Nebraska Center for the Education of Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired serves children from infancy to age 21. NCECBVI 's program offers the expertise and specialized skills of the center's staff to blind, visually impaired, and multi-handicapped students in residential, day, and outreach settings.
http://www.ncecbvi.org/home.html

NYISE (New York Institute for Special Education) is a private non-profit, non-sectarian educational facility which provides quality programs for children who are blind or visually disabled, emotionally and learning disabled and pre-schoolers who are developmentally delayed.
http://nyise.org

CODI (Cornucopia of Disability Information) serves as a community for consumers and professionals by providing disability information in a wide variety of areas including education, directories and databases, statistics, government documents, computer access, legal, etc.
http://codi.buffalo.edu

At Blind Links there is information on adaptive technology, advocacy and training, books and magazines, medical links, mobility and braille and many more.
http://seidata.com/~marriage/rblind.html

Blind Net provides information about blindness, general information as well as links to organizations of the blind, for the blind and lots of other links.
http://www.blind.net/blindind.htm

Fred's Head Database is a source of tips and techniques for and by blind or visually impaired individuals. It includes records about technology, recreation, daily living skills, orientation and mobility, and more.
http://www.aph.org/fh/index.html

NBRS (National Broadcast Reading Service) is the world's largest broadcast reading service. They also operate Canada's only description centre where described movies are produced.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~nbrs

V.I Guide contains information on many topics pertaining to parenting and teaching a child with visual impairments.
http://www.viguide.com

SET-BC is a Ministry of Education Provincial Resource Program established to assist school districts in educating students whose access to the curriculum is restricted primarily due to the following disabilities: (1) physical disability (2) visual impairment (3) autism.
http://www.setbc.org/

InfoEyes is a pilot virtual reference and information community for the visually impaired. This is a pilot project which will run from March to August 2004. The purpose of the pilot is to test the OCLC Question Point software for providing information services for the visually impaired.
http://www.infoeyes.org/

IBM Special Needs Systems has information on special software for the handicapped. http://www.austin.ibm.com/sns

Braille Jymico produces texts, scientific braille documents ((Nemeth Code), graphics using raised contours and also produces musical texts in braille.
http://www.braillejymico.com

Royal National Institute of the Blind is the United Kingdom'’s leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight problems. This sight contains great information about technology and accessible web design. http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/code/InternetHome.hcsp

on Johnston Inc. offers computer resources for students with special needs. http://www.donjohnston.com

Dragonfly Toy Company Inc. has a catalogue of toys for special needs children.
http://www.dragonflytoys.com

Project Gutenberg is great for downloading (in plain text) public domain books, including young adult fiction, humour, psychology, biography and lots more.
http://www.gutenberg.org

On-line Books Page is an index of thousands of on-line books in text format.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

AbleNet has a site which includes descriptions and  information about it's products and also good links to other sites.
http://www.ablenetinc.com

YouSearched.com is proud to unveil the world's first search engine designed to be FULLY ACCESSIBLE for people with disabilities. Search is the second most used application on the Internet after Email but people with disabilities have not been able to fully utilize the capabilities of search engines. YouSearched.Com changes that.

HELP Read™ is FREE software that reads along with you while you do the reading. Whether you’re younger or older, new to reading or have your own library, HELP Read™ should be able to help you read more and understand more of what you read.
http://helpread.net/

Accessible Information Solutions was formed in 2003. It combines the activities and services of Vision Australia Foundation (VAF) and Royal Blind Society of NSW (RBS) that are intended to increase access to information for people with a print disability. Accessible Information Solutions is a business unit of the National Information and Library Service. It has a great accessibility tool bar which is a free download.
http://www.nils.org.au/ais/index.html