- Our newest addition to the Blindness Resource Center:
Low Vision Resources
A comprehensive collection of links to Low Vision Resources including CCTV Manufacturers, Electronic Reading Technology, Magnification Aids, Print Enhancing Software and Computer Access
- This edition of What's New is BOBBY approved.
Bobby is a free web-based service that will help you make web pages accessible to people with disabilities. 
- Blind Sports and Recreation Resources (MSU)
- The Braille Monitor December 1997 (The National Federation of the Blind)
- Educational Equity Concepts, Inc. is a national nonprofit organization based in New York City. Founded in 1982, they create programs and materials that help educators address bias based on gender, race/ethnicity, and disability.
- DEAFBLIND LINK
- Inclusive Technology- Special Needs Info and software
- Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.01 Accessibility Features
- Jett Enterprises Gifts
- Parents Guide to the Internet: Developed by the U. S. Department of Education
- Producing learning materials in braille. Dorton House School.- Access Technology Services.
- Sense, The National Deafblind and Rubella Association, the world's largest organisation working with and campaigning for deafblind people, their families and professionals who work with them. (United Kingdom)
- SNOW (Special Needs Opportunity Window) is a recently launched pilot project aimed at supporting teachers of students with special needs through distance education. SNOW also serves as a clearinghouse of resources for those involved in special education.
- Esmerel's Special Education Resources
- Tactile Pedestrian Adaptor (TPA): a street crossing aid for the sight handicapped. Compliant with U.S. ADA requirements.
- Theater By The Blind
- Trace Announces a Cooperative Project to Develop a Webmaster's Accessibility Toolkit.
- Webmaster's Accessibility Toolkit.: Trace announces a cooperative project to develop a toolkit that can be used by web masters to help create accessible websites.
- Computer tutorials and other updates on Empowerment Zone
- The Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children provides opportunities for training and education to students who in addition to visual impairment are disabled by other severe conditions.
- The Connecticut Institute for the Blind/Oak Hill provides children and adults with multiple disabilities the opportunity to live, learn and work in the community.
- Texas School for the Blind
- A Brief History
- Assessment KIT: Kit of Informal Tools for Academic Students with Visual Impairments
- Nemeth Translation Filter Information
- Overbrook School for the Blind
- Professional Summer WorkshopA two-day workshop for professionals who are working with young children with visual impairment.(June 16th and 17th, 1998)
- International Program Now Accepting Applications for the 1998/99 School Year
- Wrestling for the Visually Impaired
- State Vocational and Rehabilitation Agencies
- The Information and Resource Referral Center (I&RR) at Mississippi State University
- The Central Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Handicapped in Israel
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Issues as a
W3C HTML 4.0 Recommendation.
They also support the Web Accessibility Initiative [WAI]
which has prepared the Unified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines. 
- Braille Relief (tactile graphics) from Braille Planet (formerly Raised Dot Computing). This add-on to version 2.0 puts the product Pictac (from Personal Data Systems) into MegaDots; it scans an image and turns it into a tactile graphic to insert into your MegaDots file. Cost is $100, requires version 2.0. of Megadots
- New Release of ZoomText Xtra v6.03 by Ai Squared. Level 1 is an advanced screen magnifier and Level 2 offers a fully integrated magnifier and screen reader designed specifically for the low-vision computer user. AiSquared announces also version 6.1 of ZoomText Xtra. is planned for January 1998 and will include:
- Improved screen reading;
- International speech support;
- Built-in synthesizers for French, German, Italian and spanish.
- JBliss Imaging Systems announces new releases of VIPinfoNet: a highly configurable Low Vision Internet Browser and VIPinfoSoft is a is a complete reading system
- Simply Internet has integrated internet utilities such as a Winsock Dialer, a Telnet client and an E-mail client for windows which are both speech friendly and speech enabled.
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- Visually Impaired Computer Users Group of New York City (VICUG-NYC)
meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the The Associated Blind building, which is located at 135
West Twenty-third Street (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues) in New York City.
Directions to the meeting site are available here. - MOVING TARGETS: Topical Topics of Interest to the Blind and Visually Impaired Community of the New York Metropolitan Area
- Web Sites of Blind/VI Computer User Groups Nationwide
- NYC: Blazie Special Interest Group to Meets
- Visually Impaired Computer Users Group of New York City (VICUG-NYC)
meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the The Associated Blind building, which is located at 135
West Twenty-third Street (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues) in New York City.
V.I. Guide is a place where anyone with an interest in the education and welfare of a visually impaired child can turn for a comprehensive set of resources.
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Last updated
January 1, 1998
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