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Disability Resources - Sight Impairments

Disability Empowerment Network
DEN - Resource-Access provides quality empowerment services for people with disabilities, specialiseing in service delivery to people with visual impairments.
http://www.resource-access.com/
World Blind Union
The WBU is universally accepted as the representative of the world's blind community by the United Nations and other international organisations.
http://umc.once.es/
Yahoo! Groups - magnifiers
Low Vision Computer Access List
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/magnifiers..
Low Vision Information Center
A nonprofit organization offering information services and an in-house demonstration area with a variety of low vision aids and ideas.
http://www.lowvisioninfo.org/
National Association for Visually Handicapped (NAVH)
For visually impaired and professionals, we offer an online low vision aids store, discussion list, large print lending library, newsletters, support groups, and education.
http://www.navh.org/index.html
American Council of the Blind
Provides general information about the Council, including recent issues of our monthly publication, The Braille Forum.
http://www.acb.org/
Greater Detroit Agency for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Greater Detroit Agency for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Detroit, Michigan, is a non-profit agency dedicated to preventing blindness, reducing the impact of blindness, and advocating for those with severe vision loss.
http://www.gdabvi.org/
Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB)
A voluntary, not-for-profit rehabilitation agency that provides services for people who are blind, visually impaired and deafblind. The CNIB’s primary goal is to empower its clients to participate fully in a sighted world.
http://www.cnib.ca/
Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind
Information about New Zealand Foundation of the Blind, blindness issues, Guide Dog Services, Library and Information Services for the Blind, Equipment for Blind people
http://www.rnzfb.org.nz/
The Association of Blind and Partially Sighted Teachers and Students [ABAPSTAS]
ABAPSTAS was founded in 1970 by a small number of visually impaired people with the primary aim of supporting students, teachers and lecturers.
http://www.abapstas.org.uk/
Brighton Society for the blind
Organization for the blind from the United Kingdom.
http://www.bsblind.co.uk/full/
The Screen Magnifiers Homepage
Information about screen magnifiers for people having problems reading their computer screen. Screen magnification and text-to-speech. Includes product reviews, download area, news, discussion and links.
http://www.magnifiers.org/
Achromatopsia Network
An information and support network for individuals and families who are affected by the rare inherited vision disorder achromatopsia.
http://www.achromat.org/
Adaptive Technology Center for the Blind (ATCB)
The ATCB is a dedicated computer trainer and Braille transcriber Center focusing on the needs of students and professionals in Ethiopia who are blind or visually impaired
http://www3.sympatico.ca/tamru/
Canadian Council of the Blind - A Lack of Sight is not a lack of vision
The CCB is an organization not FOR the blind but OF the blind. A board of directors who are blind and visually impaired governs the CCB, and as a result, there is a special sensitivity to the needs of the blind community.
http://www.ccbnational.net/
Canix

http://Canix.org/
Community Services for the Blind and Partially Sighted
Founded as an independent nonprofit vision rehabilitation in 1965, Seattle-based Community Services for the Blind and Partially Sighted works with individiuals, families and communities to restore, maintain and enhance the independence and well-being of people with impaired vision, and specializes in working with age-related vision loss. Programs include counseling; safe travel and independent living training; low vision clinic; volunteer services; education, information and referral; assistive technology center; and adaptive aids sales, including an online store with hundreds of products for living with vision loss and secure transactions at www.sightconnection.com
http://www.csbps.com/
Duxbury Systems
Home of Raised Dot Computing and MegaDots, braille translation programs.
http://www.duxburysystems.com/
Itac Consulting Ltd.
sourcing and providing adaptive and assistive technologies to enable handicapped people to integrate into society
http://www.itacconsulting.com/
Narrative Television Network
Makes movies and television programming accessible to blind and visually impaired people through narration, an "extra" voice added to the show to describe the visual elements of the story. Since 1988, NTN has narrated hundreds of hours of movies and television series, as well as several Broadway theatre productions and museum tours.
http://NarrativeTV.com/
National Federation of the Blind
Helps blind persons achieve self-confidence and self-respect and acts as a vehicle for collective self-expression by the blind.
http://www.nfb.org/


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