Directory of Blindness Resources

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Websites about blindness and low vision from a health perspective. A blind person may have partial vision but is considered 'legally blind' if vision is less than a certain measurement.

Subcategories

• Braille
• Color Blindness
• Deafblindness
• Low Vision
• Organizations
• Personal Pages
• Research
• Special Education Schools
• Vision and Reading Aids

Resources in This Category

• Blind Confidential

  http://blindconfidential.blogspot.com/
  Weblog serves as a commentary on issues regarding people with vision impairments.

• Blindskills, Inc.

  http://www.blindskills.com/
  Offers solutions and answers to questions regarding blindness, visual impairment and vision loss.

• Kenneth Jernigan: 'power to the blind'

  http://www.braillerman.com/jernigan.htm
  Article on the late director of the Iowa Commission for the Blind.

• Living with Vision Loss

  http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=40
  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.

• Lowell Association for the Blind

  http://www.lowellassociationfortheblind.org/
  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.

• Modifying Games for the Blind

  http://www.thegamesjournal.com/articles/GamesForTheBlind.shtml
  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.

• National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

  http://www.loc.gov/nls
  A free US program of braille and recorded materials.

• Recording For The Blind and Dyslexic

  http://www.rfbd.org/
  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.

• SeebyTouch

  http://see-by-touch.sourceforge.net/index_.html
  The free of charge project, especially for the blind, 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.

• Sonokids

  http://www.ballyland.com/
  Portal for blind and visual impaired children. Accessible games, and remixers. Make a homepage for free with screenreader.

• The Blind Readers Page

  http://blindreaders.info/
  A source of information about books and reading, blindness and other disabilities and library services for the blind and physically handicapped.

• The Voice

  http://www.visualprosthesis.com/voice.htm
  Translates images from a camera into sounds that one hears via stereo headphones and targetting vision substitution for the totally blind.

• Video Description by Narrative Television Network

  http://www.narrativetv.com/
  Makes movies and television programming accessible to blind and visually impaired people through narration.

• VisionConnection

  http://visionconnection.org/
  Vision information and an accessible community for people who are partially sighted or blind. Searchable database of resources, and articles.

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