United States Braille Chess Association
The purpose of the United States Braille Chess Association (USBCA) is to actively encourage and assist in the promotion and advancement of correspondence and over-the-board chess among chess enthusiasts who are blind or visually impaired.
The United States Blind Golf Association is organized and operated for the purposes of benefiting blind and vision-impaired persons and promoting the public good through programs that advance, and increase public awareness of golf among the blind and vision-impaired throughout the United States.
Discovery is dedicated to fostering self-sufficiency in blind and visually impaired children and adults by improving their mobility, confidence, independence, and social skills through involvement in physical activities. Discovery addressed these goals by pioneering methods for teaching challenging sports to people with little or no vision, by involving families and friends in these activities, and by promoting positive public awareness of visually impaired individuals and their accomplishments.
International Blind Sports Federation
IBSA is registered as a non-profit making, public interest body in Spain, and we are full members of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), where we are the legitimate representatives of sport for the blind.
Accessible sound games for blind and visually impaired
VGZ Sound track is a free online sound streaming service. Beach Volleyball 3.0 multiplayer, online sport game Funny bowling 3.0 multiplayer, online game with strategy and shooter features Lords of the galaxy 3.0 multiplayer, online, accesible strategy Super football version 3.0 multiplayer, online sport game Galaxy ranger version 3.0 multiplayer, online, accesible strategy Super tennis version 3.0 multiplayer, online sport game
The National Beep Baseball Association - Home Page
The adaptive version of America's favorite pastime for the blind and visually impaired. This is your home to find information about the game of beep baseball, so take a peek.
Where you can find Jim Kitchen's free blind accessible speech friendly pc dos and windows games
Complete Gambling Supply Shop
games for the blind, games for the visually impaired!
AudioGames.net is a site dedicated to audio games (games based on sound) and blind-accessible games. Originally this site started out as a database of audio games only, but due to the massive response of the blind community, we've broadened the scope of the website.
TOM LORIMER'S WHITESTICK WEBSITE
The whitestick.co.uk website is designed for ease of use and to offer guidance to any visually impaired web user
The Zone BBS offers you a place to meet new people, play games, and get away from the more stressful parts of life. The site includes games such as Anagram Mania, Hangman, and Keno, message boards, Graffiti, and Quicknotes to talk to other users, private mail between members, user profiles, and much more.
All inPlay's mission is to bring people together through the simple joy of playing and interacting together as equals.
audio-tips voice chat community
Audio-tips is a family oriented community.
Enjoy courtesy, calm, and great conversation while creating comfort and camaraderie with class! Come and celebrate while making new friends, meeting up with old ones, and developing new skills with classes, fun, and more! Again, welcome from all of us here at Out-of-Sight.net!
Where friendship and tolerance are key ingredients for fun and rewarding conversations.
We are a group of blind and visually impaired individuals who enjoy spending time learning, playing and chatting witheach other.
We are a community of vision impaired individuals, their friends and families. Although we primarily serve the visually impaired, anyone is most welcome to join us.
The Courage Handi-Ham System provides tools for people with disabilities to learn Amateur Radio and technology skills, and to earn their Amateur Radio licenses.
Alter Aeon is a multi-player online game, where players can play with or against each other in a huge world filled with challenges. It is free to play, and it isn't a crippled version designed to get you to buy something else later. All you need to start is a telnet client, a little bit of time, and a little bit of patience.
Blink Nation, a brand-new, screen-reader-friendly social network specially tailored for blind users. We strive to make an environment that is feature rich but clutter free. As you browse this site, you'll probably notice several, major differences from other, less organized webpages you've visited. For instance, you'll notice we've replaced long lists of links with drop down menus and accompanying Go buttons. We've removed annoying images, so that you won't be left in the dark on any useful information or tripping over useless decorations. We've marked distinct sections in the content so that you can quickly navigate between headers. We've reduced the use of tables for clearity's sake. And we make a point to only use dynamic content that plays nicely with your screen reader. Blink Nation is an on-going project to create new features and content for blind users. This site will continue to evolve and grow as our community grows.
If you don't yet have a profile on Blink Nation, register to join our online community for free!
If you are someone who can't read a printed book, or you know a person who has difficulty reading printed text, the Bookshare.org community is here to serve you.
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS administers a free library program of braille and audio materials circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States by postage-free mail.
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.
In 1997 the AAF started this program to provide blind children a free Braille book every month from a popular children’s reading series. The books are for the children to keep and collect for as long as they want them. The titles published every month are the same titles that are available in bookstores and public libraries everywhere. In the past ten years over one hundred seventy titles from popular children’s reading series were distributed to thousands of blind children.
Web-Braille is an Internet, web-based service that provides, in an electronic format, many braille books, some music scores, and all braille magazines produced by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
We reformat books and other publications from smaller type into 18, 28, and 48 point extra large print type.
You can read the publications on a computer screen or print them out. When you print, they will be in large type.
You don't need any additional software; the large print publications can be read and printed with the free Adobe Reader you already have.
Our publications are compatible with most screen readers, but an ASCII version is also included.
News worthy Audio, Your personal Audio Newspaper
NewsworthyAudio brings you full length news articles, sent right to your iPod, mp3 player, or computer. You listen to the articles your want. The subjects you choose. The entire article - not just a brief summary. Whenever you want - drive time, treadmill time, anytime!
. You can select the audio books you want to borrow from our catalog. We will then ship you the audio books you select, along with a return label and postage. There is no fee for using the service; our costs are covered through donations.
The Braille Bible Foundation publishes the King James Version of the Bible in Grade Two English Braille. The Braille Bible is contained in 18 volumes and requires 60 inches of shelf space, twelve inches high, to store. The Braille Bible volumes are sent free of charge to blind individuals who request them.
Seedlings Braille Books for Children
Over 850 low-cost children's books in braille.
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
For 60 years, Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D), a national nonprofit, volunteer organization, has been the leading producer of accessible educational materials for students with disabilities such as visual impairment or dyslexia that make reading standard print difficult or impossible. With titles available in every subject area and grade level from kindergarten through graduate studies, RFB&D’s digitally recorded textbooks are effective learning tools for students challenged by the printed page.
American Printing House for the Blind
"The world's largest source for adapted educational and daily living products - since 1858."
LS&S Products
LS&S has served the needs of the visually impaired and hard of hearing for over 27 years. In June 2001, LS&S experienced a new beginning and a new invigoration of its operations, marketing, and customer service when we acquired the company from its founder. When Melissa’s father developed the wet-form of macular degeneration, we realized how important a resource a company like this could be. Living with a family member with low vision and experiencing the related challenges.
NO PC REQUIRED!
Portable speech communications aid
works without a PC. Creates a voice
that instantly talks as you type.
Works on speaker and telephone lines.
5 versions available, all with unlimited vocabulary
Amazability, Inc
Amazability, Inc. offers the Adept1, a new form of voice-enabled universal assistant for those who have disabilities or are otherwise eyes or hands busy. All applications have a common command language and have been developed to work with speech, typing, or both.
You may type or issue verbal commands to navigate and read virtually any type of book or document, access email, and browse the web. You may even type shorthand abbreviations for commands to speed up your activity.
Bluetooth Headset
selection of bluetooth accessories and replacement batteries for cellular phones at discounted pricing.
Sendero Online Store
With Nuance TALKS™ you can:
Mobile Speak Smartphone
Access, flexibility, and convenience
Breaking down yet another barrier to accessibility, Code Factory introduces Mobile Speak SmartPhone, the first ever full-fledged screen reader for SmartPhones powered by the Windows Mobile platform.
Mobile Speak SmartPhone (MSS) allows you to:
JAWS and Window Eyes Compatible Versions. TCB has built-in extensions for both Window Eyes and Jaws Making this checkbook very accessible, without the need for scripts and SET files.
Products for independent living and products designed to enhance your lifestyle simply by making your every-day tasks easier. Our products are well designed, attractive and provide easy-to-use features. Great for seniors, busy parents and people with arthritis, limited vision or other physical challenges. The company was founded in order to provide specialty products that work to people who need them in order to maintain their independence in their own home. Quality and service are our priorities.
Products for independent living and products designed to enhance your lifestyle simply by making your every-day tasks easier. Look to Maxi-Aids when you’re in need of any special needs item.
Why shop anywhere but Blind Mice Mart? Purchases fund the Mouse Hole Scholarship Program and do not go into the pockets of the MICE! Your purchase goes back to the blind community by funding scholarships for the visually impaired and sponsoring Cooking in the Dark!!
Future Aids - The Braille Superstore
Here at The Braille Superstore, we're never standing still - we've always got a million exciting new product ideas on the go.
independent living aids, inc. is the oldest privately-held, mail-order company in the United States of products for individuals who are visually impaired or blind. Almost thirty years of providing essential aids with superb service has made us a trusted source of products for the blind and visually impaired.
Tele-thermostat for vacation and residential home
Virtual Vision Technologies announces remote AT skill-assessment hiring & training tool for employers around the world September, 2007 Virtual Vision announces their groundbreaking new AT skill-screening assessment tool, called AT SAM (Assistive Technology Skill Screening and Assessment). ATSAM can be administered remotely by VVT assessors, to job applicants, new hires, or embedded employees with disabilities located at an accessible workstation anywhere in the world.
Braille Printers from Enabling Technologies
In 1996, we developed PrestoBraille, our industrial-strength signmaker, for 3M Corporation, and evolved ET, from the original Juliet. (It's faster with--at 40 characters--a narrower line). We created ET Speaks, our DoubleTalk-compatible speech. ET Speaks automatically vocalizes embosser commands, works with screen-reading software to make your computer talk, and even plays audio files of all kinds of sounds in the popular WAV format, making Braille embossers easier to use--and more fun--for people with all levels of computer experience. ET Speaks is now standard on BookMaker, Braille Express 100, Braille Express 150, Juliet Pro, Juliet Pro 60 and Romeo Pro 50. It's also an option for our single-sided desktop embosser, Thomas.
Braille Transcription, Braille Menus, Braille Documents, Custom Rubber Stamps, Trodat 'Printy', Trodat Store, Trodat Daters, printy, order online, IDEAL, Embossing Seals, Notary Seals, Library Seals, Professional Seals, IDEAL Rubber Stamps.
American Thermoform Corporation offers the latest high-tech and low-tech products in the Braille industry. Available products include:
The guiding purposes of National Braille Press are to promote the literacy of blind children through braille, and to provide access to information that empowers blind people to actively engage in work, family, and community affairs.
Get the Icon Advantage. Listen to 1,000's of Books and Songs. Use Life-Managing Software Applications. The Icon from LevelStar is a pocket-sized all-in-one device designed specifically for the visually impaired. It is like a PDA, yet so much more! With a comprehensive menu of pre-installed applications, 30GB hard drive, and built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, the Icon gives you true portability and easy access to the tools you need.
SiRecognizer UMPC is the world’s first portable system able to recognise flat and solid objects.
A powerful UMPC as small as a palm allows information retrieval anytime and anywhere. The powerful software recognises any object regardless of its shape, perspective or position.
SiRecognizer can tell objects apart! With a single key, SiRecognizer takes a snapshot and reads out the result in less than 10 seconds.
A Pocket PC solution that makes all the benefits of a mainstream PDA accessible to blind and low vision users: Pocket Word, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and more - plus world-famous JAWS screen reading software built-in.
HumanWare BrailleNote Notetakers
HumanWare's BrailleNote product line includes devices with Braille output (the BrailleNote family) and text to speech output only (the VoiceNote family). Input options include a Braille (BrailleNote BT line) or QWERTY (BrailleNote QT line) keyboard.
Technology that scans and reads printed material to the blind is nothing new, but this personal reader is the first truly handheld device to do the job. Combining a state-of-the-art digital camera with a powerful personal data assistant housed in a custom-designed, attractive case, the Kurzweil–National Federation of the Blind Reader puts the best available character recognition software together with text-to-speech conversion technology, all in the palm of your hand.
MobilEyes – The answer to portable reading, magnification, and multi-media access.
For those with visual impairment, everyday things like grocery shopping, eating out at a restaurant,
browsing through a photo album, or reading mail and important correspondence can be challenging
albeit difficult.
Relying on an available friend, family member, or paid assistant with better vision is not always
practical, or even desirable.
The Voice Sense is the smallest, lightest and most fashionable PDA for the visually impaired with a Perkins style keyboard for inputting information and synthesized voice for outputting information. It has multimedia functions: a Daisy talking book player, an MP3 player and voice recording capabilities. Wireless networking features (such as wireless LAN and Bluetooth) are also available, as are many other Braille notetaker features.
Social Security Online - The Official Website of the Social Security Administration Public information Materials in alternative media
The Official U.S. Government Site for People with Medicare
Welcome to GovBenefits.gov, where you can get information on over 1,000 assistance and benefit programs!
Disability related information and resources from the Federal Government
Government Benefits, Grants, and Financial Aid
Need government help? Get official information on grants, loans, financial aid, and other benefits from the U.S. government
OnGuardOnline.gov provides practical tips from the federal government and the technology industry to help you be on guard against Internet fraud, secure your computer, and protect your personal information.
The FTC, the nation's consumer protection agency, works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid them. Consumers can file a complaint or get free information on consumer issues from ftc.gov. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.
The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) is responsible for implementing the Department's national strategies in combating computer and intellectual property crimes worldwide. The Computer Crime Initiative is a comprehensive program designed to combat electronic penetrations, data thefts, and cyberattacks on critical information systems. CCIPS prevents, investigates, and prosecutes computer crimes by working with other government agencies, the private sector, academic institutions, and foreign counterparts. Section attorneys work to improve the domestic and international infrastructure-legal, technological, and operational-to pursue network criminals most effectively. The Section's enforcement responsibilities against intellectual property crimes are similarly multi-faceted. Intellectual Property (IP) has become one of the principal U.S. economic engines, and the nation is a target of choice for thieves of material protected by copyright, trademark, or trade-secret designation. In pursuing all these goals, CCIPS attorneys regularly run complex investigations, resolve unique legal and investigative issues raised by emerging computer and telecommunications technologies; litigate cases; provide litigation support to other prosecutors; train federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel; comment on and propose legislation; and initiate and participate in international efforts to combat computer and intellectual property crime.
Housing & Mortgages for People with Disabilities
A grand majority of people with disabilities today live in group homes, institutions, at home with their parents or nursing homes. The prospect of buying a home is for many a great way of taking control of ones own lives and increasing the sense of freedom.
Being a homeowner not only means more sense of independence but also contributes to feeling of belonging. As a homebuyer you will become a significant part of the community, as a neighbor, taxpayer and citizen.
State listings of the Business Enterprise Programs.
National Telecommuting Institute, Inc
NTI - Work-at-Home Online Jobs for Americans with Disabilities Apply for Jobs
Miniature horses for the blind
A non-profit charity dedicated to providing free guides for visually impaired individuals.
Our mission is to provide a safe, cost-effective and reliable mobility alternative for visually impaired people and to deliver trained Guide Horses at no cost to the recipient. We also have the goal of helping the tiny horses by providing them with a higher-purpose in life.
. . . an internationally accredited, nonprofit guide dog school with a 50-plus year legacy of providing the blind and visually impaired with superior Guiding Eyes dogs, training, and lifetime support services.
Our family of professionals, volunteers and donors are all committed to giving our students the gift of greater personal freedom, independence and dignity by providing them with the finest bred and trained guide dogs in the world.
The Seeing Eye,® Inc., is the oldest existing dog guide school in the world. Twelve times a year, as many as 24 students at a time visit the Morristown, N.J., campus to discover the exhilarating experience of traveling with a Seeing Eye dog.
Our students – people who are blind or visually impaired – come from all over the United States and Canada to spend up to a month training with a new Seeing Eye dog. They range in age from 16 to senior citizens, their home environments may be rural or urban, and they may be homemakers, volunteers, or judges. But they all have this in common: They are motivated by a sense of independence and armed with the knowledge that Seeing Eye dogs will provide an extra edge to attain success, however they may choose to define it.
We're immensely proud of the fact that so many people come to us from all across the United States and Canada. Many believe it's because we consistently have the best success rate. Others, because we have the most comprehensive services available in North America. Some think it's because all our services are free of charge.
The real reason is simpler than that. People come to us because we know that a guide dog/human team is about much more than "mobility."
We create a truly unique partnership between two beings. A collaboration that enhances the individual potential of each partner. Where the dog and the person have better lives together than either would have apart.
Our unique program is equal parts match-making, intensive training, and lifetime support. Students have access to instructors, counselors and veterinarians, a full-time nursing staff, a dedicated dormitory staff all of whom attend to students' needs in order to make their stay pleasant and enjoyable. Also, unique among guide dog schools, we offer follow-up services to each graduate of our program at their home or place of business for the lifetime of their guide dog partnership.
