February,
1997
- NEW AT THE 'tute
- We welcome a new member to the internet community:

Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
- Access
To Technology For Students With Disabilities at the University of
Oregon
- Audio-Reader
is a radio reading service covering Kansas and most of Missouri. Their
signal is available to other radio reading services and the occasional
hobbyist via satellite. The site includes information and links to the
radio reading services th in general.
- Braille Inc.
is a professional braille publishing company, in business for more than
twenty years, which specializes in transcribing services for vocational
and educational needs.
- DECtalk
Tips, Tricks and Updates - Software and firmware updates for DECtalk
hardware products.
- IBM Special
Needs Solutions has updates of Screen Reader/2 and Screen Magnifier/2
that support OS/2 Warp Version 4 (Merlin) and Lotus Notes Release 4.
- Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl
Syndrome (LMBBS) This page is aimed primarily at medical and health-care
professionals involved in the care of LMBBS patients and also for parents
or relatives wishing to know more about the syndrome and the implications
for those affected.
- Lynx: central repository
and index for information about Lynx.
- The National
Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities: NICHCY
is a national information and referral center that provides information
on disabilities and disability-related issues for families, educators,
and other professionals. Our special focus is children and youth (birth
to age 22).
- Shareware/Freeware:disability
related or acts in such a way as to assist users with disabilities. Also
check out the files available at the Trace Center for Mouse
Cursor Enhancers and Magnification
- Special Education Exchange
- SpEdEx is focusing on the field of blindness - providing a central resource
for educators, parents, researchers, vendors, students, persons with disabilities
or anyone interested in blindness.
They sponsor the OMA
Exchange! of O&M Associations:
- Tack-Tiles Braille
Systems are interchangeable with standard LEGOŽ-type blocks. They provide
a unique bridge, a smoother, shorter, more interesting path to Braille
literacy. LOS OLVIDADOS, Ltd., P.O. Box 475, Plaistow, NH 03865-0475
1-800-TACK-TILE (822-5845) U.S. and Canada or 603 382 1904 //Fax 603 382
1748 Email:Kevin@tack-tiles.com
- Talking Signs®
are used by blind & print impaired people. Signage information is recorded
on infra-red transmitters that send messages spoken by the user's hand-held
receiver.
- WEB
ACCESS 97 is the successor to a series of conferences which have examined
the state and extent of access to graphical user interfaces for blind
and visually impaired computer users.
Coordinators: Project Archimedes and the Sixth International
World Wide Web Conference Committee
Conference: Access sessions to the 6th International WWW
Conference
Dates: April 7-10, 1997
Location: Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California
(approx. 40 miles south of San Francisco)
- Web Access
Resource Center The Smith-Kettlewell Rehabilitation Engineering Research
Center
- The Yuri Rubinsky Insight
Foundation: The home of WebABLE
- New Vendors to Our List:
- Speech Access Products for Windows 95
- Previous What's New Editions:
Vol. 1 , 2 ,
3 , 4 , 5 ,
6 , 7 , 8 ,
9 , 10 , 11 .
12 and 13 .
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