Pick of the Month


Fred's Head is an accessible, on-line catalog
of useful tips, techniques, and resources for
the blind and visually impaired.

• Accessability Online Resource. This Web resource aims to raise awareness of the accessibility issues faced by people with disabilities who wish to use online services.
• Adjustments That Help You See the Computer Screen: The Center for the Partially Sighted web page about making computer use easier for the visually impaired.
  
  
• Assistive Media: Produces a monthly collection of spoken-word interpretations of literary works to serve persons with disabilities. Real Audio Required
  
  
• The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines are part of a series of accessibility guidelines published by the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative. The series also includes the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
  
  
• Bennett's Radio Ranch up-to-date listings on Web-Radio
  
  
• Braille Institute is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to eliminate blindness and severe sight loss as a barrier to the fulfillment of life.
  
  

• Compass Braille COMputerised Production of ASian Scripts in Braille - distributes Christian literature in Asia.
  
  

• Deaf-Blind Access of the South
  
  

• Download Braille and ASL Specialty Fonts at the TSBVI Web Site
  

• Discovery Blind Sports Home Page
  
  
• EnableLink.com is the online community for people who are blind and visually impaired, their families, friends and colleagues.
  
  
• Eye conditions, disorders and treaments: Information provided by the Canadian Ophthalmological Society
  
  
• Fighting Blindness (Ireland)
  
  
• Harry Potter books are very popular these day. Many of the books are available in large print, audio cassette, audio CD-ROM and Braille.
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• Judy's Jolts of Hope. Writings to help the newly diagnosed MD person cope more effectively as they pass through the traumas of this disease.
  
  
• Large Print and Low Vision Resource Network: the Internet's most comprehensive site for discounts, discussion groups, and on-line resources for low-vision users.
  
  
• MindsEye2 develops and sells software, games, and adaptive solutions for the blind and visually impaired community. Makers of the Crossword Fun, Crossword Fun for Kids, and Expert Crossword Fun CD-ROMs for Windows 95/98.
  
  
• The National Center for Accessible Media News: (NCAM): Latest Home Accessible Video Releases in Descriptive Video (DVS) and information on accessible films that are equipped with the Rear Window® Captioning and DVS Theatrical® systems.
  
  
• Music V. I. Your source for Piano by Ear and Guitar by Ear - Excellent music instruction in an all audio format.
  
  
• Playtime is Science for Children with Disabilities is a model project funded by the National Science Foundation Program for Persons with Disabilities.
  
  
• rehabtool.com is to help children and adults with disabilities live better lives by regaining independence, control and productivity through leading edge assistive and adaptive technology.
  
  
• Selection of Books on Blindness available at Amazon.com
  
  
• SITE SEEING: the first book about accessibility of the Internet for the partially sighted and the blind. How do visually impaired percieve the Internet. What do they use (equipment) and how does it work. Dutch version
  
  
• Trachoma: World's leading preventable cause of blindness. Also check out the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI)
  
  

• Vision-Eaz is an inexpensive, easy way to make your keyboard easier to see and use.

• World Database - Schools for the Blind
  
  
• The Worldwide Virtual Community of the Disabled
  
  
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• On-line computer training for blind children and their families
  
  
• Victorian knitting and crochet patterns can be ordered in Braille
  
  
• New Educational Computer Game for Blind Children from MindsEye2
  
  
• News from RNIB's Campaign for Better Web Design that two accessible Websites (one produced by a web designer who is deafblind) have reached the final of the Yell UK Web Awards.
  
  
• MyTalk.com Toll-free voicemail and email services for free
  
  
• Web Accessibility In Mind: a very valuable resources relating to web accessibility.

• The Maryland School for the Blind
  
  

• Texas School for the Blind
  • Instructional Resources
  • Adaptive Technology Resources
  • See-Hear Newsletter
    
    

• Overbrook School for the Blind
  
  
  • BRAILLE LITERACY CURRICULUM
    Braille Literacy Curriculum by Diane P. Wormsley,
    is now available and can be purchased directly from OSB.
    

    What's New OSB?

Washington State School for the Blind Vancouver, WA
also available in a graphic version

Disabilities and the Disabled
Chip That Would Restore Sight Implanted in People
Reuters (Jun 30, 2000)

• EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information
• EASI Roundtable Discussions A Weekly Discussion Between Users and Creators of Information Technology focusing on the Need for Universal Access to the Information Age. These 30-minute roundtable discussions will be webcast on Thursday nights at 9 PM Eastern, 8 Central, 7 Mountain and 6 Pacific time.
  
• EASI Online Workshops:
  
  
  
• Join the Royal National Institute for the Blind's Campaign for Better Web Design

 

• Optical Braille Recognition (Scanning braille-to-text) is a software sold by Sighted Electronics
  
  
• TCalc for Window’s. TCalc is a talking scientific calculator program, which was specially designed for use by the blind and visually impaired.

• The Blindness Resource Center Vendor Listing: A comprehensive collection of vendors of products for persons with visual impairments.
  
  
• What's New at Duxbury!
  
  
• FREEDOM SCIENTIFIC aquires Arkenstone Reading Systems. This is the latest addition to a company that has already bought Henter-Joyce and Blazie Engineering
  
  

• NEW VENDORS:
  Visit our complete list of vendors
  
  

• Biolink Computer Research and Development Ltd.
  Developers of Screen Reading Software and Special Needs Equipment : Protalk32, Provision32 and the Biolink Accessible MP3 player.
  
  
• Handy Tech Elektronik GmbH is your specialist for technology for the blind and visually impaired.
  
  
• Lab Computers, Inc. provides up-to-date systems and products to aid in difficulties of reading, writing, and learning print.
  
  
• Tactile Colour is an intuitive system of twelve bold colours, each with a distinctive texture, designed to make information normally displayed in colour accessible to people with visual impairments.
  
  
• RJ Cooper & Associates have developed something that can help young blind children. Software and touch-sensitive tactile input devices for spelling and text input that can really help young blind children on the computer.
  
  
• What's New at The Productivity Works
  • Quad Media and The Productivity Works Join Forces to Create an ADA Compliant, Web-Based KIOSK Solution
    

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Last updated June 2001
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