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• ABC News: NewsClips Browseable index of video segments of headline news and current events from World News Tonight, Good Morning America, and ABC radio.
• ACB Radio Hosts several programs such as Main Menu, an adaptive technology show, programming showcasing blind performers, and an archive of old-time radio shows.
• Amnesty International Latest Video and Audio Clips - RealPlayer software needed
• Assistive Media is a non-profit entity that produces on-line audio recordings of literary works for computer users with text-reading/access barriers...free-of-charge.
• EchoSpeech: Voice of the Web- a free plugin for Netscape Navigator 2.0 that plays compressed speech
• Download Real Audio Player
• National Broadcast Reading Service, broadcasting news and information from hundreds of newspapers and magazines free to Canadian cable subscribers.
• National Public Radio NPR (National Public Radio) is an internationally acclaimed producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming. A privately supported, not-for-profit membership organization, NPR serves a growing audience of 26 million Americans each week in partnership with more than 800 independently operated, noncommercial public radio stations.
• Omni Media Networks Host for Oregon Commission for the Blind Radio Station and the Oregon State School for the Blind radio station
• Radio Information Service (RIS) Founded in 1976, Radio Information Service (RIS) is a Pittsburgh-based radio reading service that broadcasts the reading of print material for people who are blind, visually impaired, or have difficulty holding standard print material.
• U. S. University Directory: State Universities, Online University Degree Search and College Rankings. A directory of U.S. state universities. Includes information about admissions, athletic programs, financial aid and student loans.
• Video news releases (VNRs, often referred to as fake TV news) are video clips that are indistinguishable from traditional news clips and are sometimes screened unedited by television stations without the identification of the original producers or sponsors
• The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 100 million people.
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio NPR (National Public Radio) audio archives, Washington DC, USA. More than 17000 hours of news and entertainment programs available free online

  E-texts

  "Read 'Em and Speak!"
  Books and Reading from a Blind Perspective
  Electronic text offers blind and visually impaired individuals an unprecedented level of intellectual independence and autonomy.

• Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet - Books in text format for download
• Camera Oscura: an opinionated collection of links, etext archives, electronic reading rooms, news, and literature
• Digibook Project Newsletter: Using SGML to improve production of talking books and electronic texts
• Eldritch Press: An extensive collection of online books and historical documents.
• Electronic Texts Listing various links to catalogs and archives of accessible information.
• Etext Archives:
• Etext Page:
• Links to Electronic Book and Text Sites by OmniMedia
• The On-line Books Page an index of over 1200 on-line books, English and foreign language repositories and other documents
• Radio Information Service (RIS) Promoting Independence Through Information
• Spectrum Press:
• Yahoo:Electronic Literature:Works
• Project Gutenberg:
• Internet Wiretap:

  Books & Libraries

• American Memory
  Digital history-pictures, documents, maps from US history
• Audio Bookshare
  Downloadable books in MP3 format
• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
  Books in text format for download
• Daisy Consortium
  Formed in 1996 by talking-book libraries to lead the worldwide transition from analogue to digital talking-books  
• The Internet Public Library
  Books in text format
• National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)
• Search NLS Catalog
• Online Books
  Links to over 15000 online books
• Oregon Talking Book and Braille Services
  Catalog of Oregon's TBABS
• Project Bookshare
  Subscription site from which books may be downloaded in .BRF format. Opens early 2002 . If you have scanned books, you can contribute them for others to read.
• Project Gutenberg
  Hundreds of downloadable out-of-print books
• Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic
  RFB & D holds many titles especially textbooks. Online catalog  
• Virtual Computer Library has pointers to every type of information about computers and computing on the Internet.

  News, Magazine, Newspapers

• Cathy's Newstand: Speech Friendly Newslinks for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
• Newslink Service is a source of many newspapers and magazines
• Newspaper and Current Periodical Room: Library of Congress includes: newspapers, periodicals and many international publications.
• New York Times Large Print Weekly
  If you or someone you know has trouble reading the newspaper, discover The New York Times Large Print Weekly. It brings you the world as only The Times can deliver it -- the best stories from a week's worth of the nation's best newspaper. Printed in easy-to-read, 16-point type, you get world and national news, articles on health, business, the arts, sports, and, of couse, the celebrated New York Times crossword puzzle.
• The New York Times Audio Digest
  On the road. At the gym. Listen to the daily audio digest of The New York Times anywhere. The New York Times Audio Digest is delivered right to your computer, Apple iPod, Pocket PC or MP3 Player everyday at 6:00 in the morning. Audible has thousands of audiobooks, audio subscriptions, original programming and more. Join now and get a free MP3 player!
• Reader’s Digest/Large Print Edition Reader's Digest offers a large print edition. Currently, the cost of a one-year subscription to the Large Type edition is $19.95. Contact them at: Reader's Digest, Large Edition For Easier Reading Kable News, 4279 W. Rte. 64, Mount Morris, IL 61054
  Attn JackieYount/NWF.
  Phone: (800) 678-9746 between 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
• USA Today
• The Games Domain Huge games repository
• Winamp Keyboard Shortcuts

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