Hugh Sasse's Blindness Resources Page.
Hugh G. Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>
On this page "blind" or "blindness" is intended to
include low vision, partial sight, etc .
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Sections on this page:
- Organisations of and for blind people
- Guide Dog, etc related information
- Blindness related information sources
- although the organisations will usually have plenty of this information, too
- Access technology
- DOS
- Linux
- Blindness related research
- Miscellaneous items
- RNIB home page
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- Royal National Institute for the Blind
- Royal National College for the Blind
- Queen Alexandra College
- BCAB home page
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- British Computer Association of the Blind
- Action for Blind People
- National Library for the Blind UK
- European Blind Union Home Page I think.
- American Council of the Blind
- American Foundation for the Blind
- American
Foundation for the Blind gopher No longer exists
05-AUG-2002.
- American National Federation of the Blind
- have a Technology page.
- American Printing House for the Blind
- The National Federation of Blind Citizens of Australia
- Canadian National Federation of the Blind
- The Canadian National Institute for the Blind
- have a good Technical Aids page.
- The Canadian Braille Authority
- NOAH --
The (American) National Organization of Albinism and Hypopigmentation
- The International Glaucoma Association
- The Nystagmus Network
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The US National Library Service for the blind and
Physically Handicapped
- UK organisations of and for blind people.
- a list I created for my own use, which others may find helpful. I cannot guarantee its accuracy, but up to date information is welcome.
See also the address list provided by BT.(This seems to have gone 01-JUN-2001)
- Guide Dogs for the Blind Association in the UK
- Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc
- There is a graphical version of the site if you prefer.
- The Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Inc
- Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Inc
- Royal Guide Dogs Associations of Australia
- Information on Guide dogs and service dogs
- A guide dog FAQ
- A list of guide dog schools in the USA
- The Guide Horse Foundation
- These guide animals are miniature horses, so cannot be ridden for long
distance travel. But as a proof of concept maybe it could lead to the large
horses having such a role!
- The Braille Authority of North America
- The Eyecare Information Service in the UK
- The Tiresias Project
- Infomation resource for people working in the field of visual disabilities
- USA Government National Eye Institute
- The Low Vision Gateway
- Has a comprehensive collection of links.
- Dorton House School. Access Technology Services
- has an excellent collection of links, which are well organised
- Rehabilitation, Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision
- Information on the
Unified Braille Code project from Duxbury Systems, Inc
- 20/20
- A vision related search engine
- Blindness Related Resources on the Web and beyond
- includes BLIST -- The Comprehensive Index of Blindness Related Emailing Lists.
- Vision Impairments - A guide for the perplexed
- sci.med.vision FAQ (UK copy).
- Eye Disease Information Resource
- Lim Fung's Web Server for the Visually Handicapped
- Sarah Blake's Blindness Resources page
- Ron Marriag's resources for the blind
- Visual Impairments Service
- NCIP Resources: Visual Impairments Collection
- from the USA's
National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education.
- Artur Ortega's Blindness related resources has gone (17-NOV-1999)
- Vision Impairment links from the INDIE site.
- ACM
SIGCAPH>'s
Links to Accessibility Resources.
- Jim Schaffer's home page
- Includes links to blindness related text files.
- Audio Description Home Page
- Yahoo Disabilities : Blindness page
- Coaching Judo for Blind Athletes
- This good article contains links to other blind sport related sites. See also
Lynn Zelvin's Blind Sports Page.
- The Laser Centre - Laser Vision Correction
- The vOICe
-- an experimental system for Auditory Image Representation
- How to write Blindness Friendly Programs.
- About
Braille (codes, formats, computer braille)
- The Comp.speech WWW site
- has information on speech synthesis, hardware, software...
- Ai Squared
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- produce Zoomtext and VisAbility
- Acrontech NO LONGER EXISTS (02-NOV-2006)
- Various products for people who are blind or partially sighted
- Artic Technologies
- Blazie UK
- a Freedom Scientific partner.
- Capital Technologies' Monitors for the Visually Impaired No longer does access technology AFAICS (02-NOV-2006)
- Particularly large monitors marketed towards low vision users.
- Dolphin Computer Access (for people with disabilities)
- Products include Lunar, LunarPlus, Hal, SuperNova, Dolphin Pen, Cicero.
- Duxbury Systems, Inc
- Braille translation software and braille graphics software specialists.
Some of the software offerings are free.
- Freedom Scientific.
- For JAWS
and PAC Mate,
including Deaf-Blind
Solutions for the PAC Mate. Freedom Scienfic took over
Arkenstone, Inc
Henter-Joyce.
and Blazie Engineering
- Horizon
- Magnifiers and CCTVs
- Humanware, Inc
- video magnifers, pdas (braille and speech)...
- Microtalk has gone (02-NOV-2006)
- Parrot
- Speech recognition systems, including a PDA for blind people.
- Portset's Products for blind people
- they have other interesting things at this site as well.
- Pulse Data (seems to be Humanware now??)
- produce the Braillenote,
among other things. Apparently soon to become Humanware.
- Quantum Technology
- Sight and Sound Technology
- Sighted Electronics
- supply braille printers, displays, translation software...
- SoundLinks
- Produce P W Webspeak WWW browser .
- Syntha-Voice appear to be out of business.
- products for speech and braille access to Windows and DOS, mainly. For blind and deafblind people.
- Techno-Vision Systems, Ltd
- Teletec Intenational
- now sell a large print text telephone ("Minicom" in UK parlance).
- Telesensory
and Telesensory UK
- NFBTRANS
- nfbtr???.zip is an ASCII to Braille translator. It works in both directions. I have not tried it and know little about it.
- "TACK-TILES" braille system
- A braille teaching system based on something like the products of LEGO® Group of companies.
- The Screen Magnifiers Home page has gone (03-NOV-2006) (No frames version)
- See also Large Print Resources
has gone (03-NOV-2006) from Dorton House School's
Access technology for visually impaired
learners has gone (03-NOV-2006) .
- TRACE Center's
Listing of Available Software for blind/low vision access
- access.adobe.com.
- Mercator Project has gone (03-NOV-2006)
- Providing Access to Graphical User Interfaces for Computer Users Who Are Blind
- UltraSonix has gone (03-NOV-2006)
- Another project to make X accessible to blind people.
Also has links to other accessibility stuff for Unix
- Linux Accessibility HOWTO document
(UK copy has gone (03-NOV-2006)).
- See also
BLINUX Project,
and Ocularis As of 2005-12-20 23:50, this project is no longer under active development..
- VisionCue
- Took over Alva Access Group, Inc, who
took over Berkeley Access. They produce OutSPOKEN and InLARGE
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The Magnification Centre has gone (03-NOV-2006)
If you do wish to continue using DOS, there is
DR-DOS
which was known for a while as OpenDOS.
This is an Unofficial OpenDOS Home Page,
and there is information on delorie.com's opendos page.
There is also The FreeDOS Project
which seems tobe being developed actively.
A popular choice for accessing the internet with DOS is
Net-Tamer. This is
shareware. It is speech friendly and can be used with
Braille.
There is the "DOS Lynx" or
fdisk.com DOS Internet Pages, which is also the main[?]
web site for
Bobcat, which can be had by ftp
from ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux/lynx/bobcat/.
See also this Internet tools for DOS page, and
UKA_PPP, UKAW, NOS-BOX (News, Web, etc tools for DOS/windows).
There is also Tvdog's Internet Access Archive which can
be accessed by ftp at ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/tvdog/internet/.
For more information see these
DOS-class systems and extensions
listed on
Review of Operating Systems page
from tunes.org.
This has moved off this page now.
- Research on Tactile Maps at the University of Sheffield
- Mobility Research Page
- Blind Mobility Research Unit, Nottingham
- Sensory Disabilities Research Unit
- at the University of Hertfordshire's
Psychology Department.
- The MoBIC project
- Mobililty of Blind and Elderly People Interacting with Computers
- MOVIS Home page
- Mobile Optoelectronic Visual-Interpretative System for
the blind and visually impaired
- Multivis
project - Multimodal Visualisation for Blind People
- from the Earcons and Multimodal
interaction Group at
Glasgow University.
- Mindseye2
- produce accessible computer games. (I have not tried any of these.)
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