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- Accessibility
Options in Windows 95
- AER’s
certification programs define educational and professional standards
in the field and what qualifications are needed to meet those standards.
(AEROnline: Association for
Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired)
- AudioUniverse
search or browse a library of 15,000 audiobooks available for sale at a
discount.
- blindness.linkable.org
Blindness; Books, Links, and People
- The Braille
Development Section, National Library Service for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped (NLS), Library of Congress administers a program
of courses leading to certification in braille transcribing and proofreading
- Braille
Literacy: Resources for Instruction, Writing Equipment, and Supplies
- Computer
Access On A Shoestring - accessibility shareware (free or cheap)!
The ATEC Shareware Collection
(Access Technology Evaluation
Center)
- De Visu:
Información sobre y para personas ciegas o con deficiencia visual
- Eldritch
Press: An extensive collection of online books and historical documents.
The latest addition is the Oliver
Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Homepage. Several books have described illustrations.
- Focus on
The Visually Impaired: Information and resources to assist the blind
or visually impaired in independent living
- Gutar
by Ear: Learn Guitar, Piano and other instruments
by ear using taped instruction.
- International
Guide to Agencies for Blind and Partially Sighted People
- International
Braille Research Center (IBRC) Resource Library
- The
Laurence Moon-Bardet Biedl Syndrome Network (LMBS)
Email Support Group: Contact Sue
McCoy
- Low Vision,
Practical Tips for Independent Living: List of 125 tips and exercises.
- NY Times: Melatonin
Used to Restore Sleep Patterns in Blind People
- Projects
for People with Disabilities
- get information on employment
and training. Also find out about
job accommodation resources. From the U.S. Department of Labor Employment
and Training Administration.
- Microsoft
Internet Explorer 5 Microsoft's Comments on Accessibility of Version
5 (text version)
- "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.
- Resources
for Parents & Teachers of Blind Kids
- The Screen Magnifiers
Homepage is moved from the old location to http://www.magnifiers.org
- Snacky
Pete's Text Adventure Archive A personal archive of text adventure
games. Dozens
of speech friendly programs are also available at Paul Henrichsen's
Home Page
- The
Touch Laboratory, Research has focused for many years now on the
sense of touch in humans. The work has examined how normally sighted and
blind people come to learn about the world around them through haptic exploration
and manipulation.
- Visual
Basic Tutorial for blind or visually impaired programmers. This
online tutorial is designed for beginners who want to learn how to program
in Visual Basic.
- World Database - Schools for
the Blind
- The Worldwide Virtual
Community of the Disabled
Disabilities
and the Disabled
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- FCC
Approves Disability Ruling: The telecommunications
industry must make pagers, cellular phones and other equipment and services
easier for disabled people to use under new rules approved today by federal
regulators
- HoTMetaL
4.0: Accessible HTML Authoring System:
Recently, SoftQuad announced the release of version 4.0 of
their HoTMetaL HTML authoring package. For the first time in a commercial
HTML authoring tool, this package includes features to encourage and aid
Web authors in the production of accessible HTML documents.
- Optical Braille
Recognition (Scanning braille-to-text) is a software sold by Sighted
Electronics
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- The Blindness Resource Center
Vendor Listing: A comprehensive collection
of vendors of products for persons with visual impairments.
- Interlock
San Diego ADA Detectable Warning Products:
Interlock San Diego manufactures and installs concrete detectable warning
tactiles.
- Tal-Mec
Ltd - Sonar Vision:
Fitted into a pair of sunglasses, the device is developed to ease orientation
not only to a range of few steps as a stick does, but to a distance of 3-4
meters (3.5 yards) by warning its user of an upcoming obstacle. While moving,
the blind can obtain information on the distance of the obstacle in front
of him by the pitch of the warning signal.
- What's
New at Duxbury! Merging with Braille Planet for a new generation
of Braille Software technology
- Henter-Joyce,
Inc. has placed JAWS for DOS 2.31, the product
that brought the company to prominence in the access technology industry
as freeware on the Internet.
NEW
VENDORS:
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VICUG
NYC meets
on the second Tuesday of every month in the Auditorium of the TAB/Selis Manor
building, which is located at 135 West Twenty-third Street, between Sixth and
Seventh Avenues, in New York City. If you have any questions about subway lines
and bus stops in the vicinity of Selis Manor, please call The Associated Blind
at (212) 766-6800 between 9am and 4:30pm, or consult the hypertextualized directions
to the TAB/Selis Manor building located at:
http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/directions.html
For more information about VICUG NYC and its activities, please call the VICUG
NYC Hotline at (212) 714-4967, or visit the VICUG NYC web site, which is located
at:
http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/
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Comments and/or suggestions on this site can be addressed
to:
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Last updated September, 1999
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