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Blindness

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      new window University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Medical Dictionary: "blindness"
 
 
Message Boards and Online Support Groups:
      new window iVillage.com - The Women's Network: Visual Impairments
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Web Directory:
      new window A Blind Our Motto Description: Directory of links and other resources for the blind. (blind.net)
new window AccessDome Description: Resources for the blind. A web portal designed to enhance vision impaired and print restricted access to the web. (accessdome.com)
new window Accessible Games Description: Portal for blind and visual impaired children. Accessible games, remixers and more. Make you own hompage for free with your screenreader. (sonokids.com)
new window Artificial Vision - Homepage Description: The Dobelle Institute (Portugal) Lda. announces development of an artificial vision system providing independent mobility to blind people. (artificialvision.com)
new window Blind BBS Description: a list for the discussion of issues concerning the blind (groups.yahoo.com)
new window Blind Group For Women Description: Help, support and friendship for low vision women. (geocities.com)
new window Blindness Emailing Lists Description: Subscribe to blindness-related emailing lists and pan-disability and access-issues lists directly from this comprehensive hypertext index. (hicom.net)
new window Blindness in Depth Description: Provides articles and links to information about the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual impact of blindness. (blindness.growingstrong.org)
new window Blindskills, Inc. Description: Offers solutions and answers to questions regarding blindness, visual impairment and vision loss. (blindskills.com)
new window Community Services for the Blind and Partially Sighted Description: Provides assorted information and resources for visually impaired people. (csbps.com)
new window Empower Connection - Technology for the Blind Description: Information and help for people using assistive Internet technology. (ed-web3.educ.msu.edu)
new window Enablers for visually impaired young adults with learning difficulties Description: Resource and contact site for enablers working with visually impaired young adults with learning difficulties. (visenablers.org.uk)
new window Envision Description: Flash presentation on the research at the Duke University Eye Center to eliminate blindness. (dukeeye.org)
new window Kenneth Jernigan: 'power to the blind' Description: Article on the late director of the Iowa Commission for the Blind. (braillerman.com)
new window Living with Vision Loss Description: If you are among the more than 10 million people in North America who are visually impaired, you know how important it is to find ways to accomplish routine daily tasks. (afb.org)
new window Louis Database Description: Database of accessible materials for people who are blind or visually impaired. Contains information about more than 145,000 titles of accessible materials, including braille, large print, sound recordings, and computer files from over 200 agencies throughout the United States. (aph.org)
new window Lowell Association for the Blind Description: LAB is a non-profit, community based organization dedicated to working with the blind and visually impaired. Serving the Greater Lowell, MA / Merrimack Valley community. Find the services, news, resources and contact details. (lowellassociationfortheblind.org)
new window Modifying Games for the Blind Description: Tips on adapting board games with tactile markings, from adding Braille markings to playing cards or game tiles, to using glue to create raised lines on map boundaries. (thegamesjournal.com)
new window Recording For The Blind and Dyslexic Description: Educational library for people with print disabilities, with a 77,000-title library of taped textbooks, reference and professional materials for people who cannot read standard print because of a disability. (rfbd.org)
new window RNIB - Charles Bonnet Syndrome Description: Characterized by visual hallucinations in people who have a sudden change in vision such as that brought on by macular degeneration or serious sight loss. (rnib.org.uk)
new window Savon Condition Center Description: A comprehensive information site including medical references and tools. [Only available in Internet Explorer and Netscape browsers] (savonblindness.com)
new window SeebyTouch Description: The free of charge project, especially for blinds, provides a possibility to perceive pictures over the tactile sense - consisting of a picture transforming multi-platform software and a tactile display, built up easily with help of the construction manual. (see-by-touch.sourceforge.net)
new window SensibleGraphics - Tactile Graphics for Blind and Visually Impaired Description: Information on tactile graphics for the blind and visually impaired. Graphic files free to download. (ks-huseby.no)
new window Talking Software Description: Offers a word speech enabled dictionary and thesaurus for blind users. All controls are designed with unsighted user in mind. (talkingsoftware.gothere.uk.com)
new window The Blind Readers Page Description: A source of information about books and reading, blindness and other disabilities and library services for the blind and physically handicapped. (blindreaders.info)
new window The Eye Description: Includes what to do when meeting a person with vision impairment, the signs of vision loss, legal blindness, braille and other health related links. (99main.com)
new window The Voice Description: Translates images from a camera into sounds that one hears via stereo headphones and targetting vision substitution for the totally blind. (visualprosthesis.com)
new window V I P News Description: A voluntary site for daily updated links to related news stories from around the world. (vipnews.org.uk)
new window VICUG-L Description: A visually impaired computer users' group list. Search the archives and join from this site. (maelstrom.stjohns.edu)
new window Video Description by Narrative Television Network Description: Makes movies and television programming accessible to blind and visually impaired people through narration. (narrativetv.com)
new window Vis-Ability (DK) Description: Supplies electronic aids for the visually impaired. (vis-ability.co.uk)
new window VisionConnection Description: Vision information and an accessible community for people who are partially sighted or blind. Searchable database of resources, and articles. (visionconnection.org)
 




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