A resource designed to help people with visual disabilities work more effectively with Adobe Acrobat Software.
A-Prompt - Web Accessibility Verifier Checks Web pages for barriers to accessibility and makes repairs to correct any problems.
Various links to web sites for low vision and other disabilities.
Association for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Visually Impaired Programs, services, and products for people who are visually impaired.
American Printing House for the Blind
APH is the largest not-for-profit company that creates educational, workplace, and lifestyle products and services for people with visual impairments.
Assistive Technology Catalogs for Visual Impairment/Blindness
This list contains companies that offer assistive technology to aid a person who has a visual impairment or who is blind. (Note: You need to have Acrobat Reader to open this file.)
Information about Braille Systems used in the United States.
This site contains excellent web sites, organizations, general informations and chat lines dealing vision impairments.
Eye diseases, the history of Braille, latest research.
The Guild for the Blind serves individuals who are blind or visually impaired, including those with new vision loss. The Guild strives to promote positive attitudes about visual impairment and to assist its members in achieving dignity and independence at home, in the workplace and in the community.
Helen Keller National Center For Deaf-Blind Youth and Adults
This center operates an extensive system of field services nationwide for people who are deaf-blind within their local communities and their families, as well as public and private service providers and professionals.
This website provide the High Performance Reading Lamp for low vision.
Developer of reading technology for people who are blind and for people with reading difficulties.
Lighthouse International - Part I
Basic guidelines for making effective text legibility choices.
Lighthouse International - Part II
Effective color contrast design for people with partial sight and color deficiencies.
Louis Database: Accessible Materials and APH File Repository (Vision)
The American Printing House for the Blind (APH) currently houses a database called the Louis Database of Accessible Materials for People who are Blind or Visually Impaired. Louis contains information about tens of thousands of titles of accessible materials, including braille, large print, sound recordings, and computer files from over 170 agencies throughout the United States.
National Association of Blind Students
The National Association of Blind Students (NABS) is a division of the National Federation of the Blind.ΚΚ Established in 1967, NABS is an organization comprised of blind high school and college students and is dedicated to changing the negative attitudes and stereotypes that exist about blindness in order to secure equality, and opportunity for all blind students.
National Association for Visually Handicapped
Low vision aids and information about NAVH membership.
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
The Library Service provides, free-of-charge, recorded and Braille reading materials to persons with documented visual or physical impairments.
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
NOPBC provides magainzes for parents and teachers of blind/VI children and a national network of people to turn to for ideas and advice. NOPBC is a division of the National Federation of the Blind.
RFB provides taped educational books free on loan, books on diskette.
The Rehabilitation Research Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision
Has individuals interested in research and training programs that focus on the need to identify, assess, and augment services intended to facilitate the employment and career development of persons who are blind or severely visually impaired.
This utility inverts your screen colors, which return to normal when you quit from the application. This could be very useful for vision-impaired users.
Availability: Freeware
Contact: Michel Fortin
Email: michelf@mac.com
DBT for MAC includes full word-processing of both print and Braille version of a document, automatic translation between the two, complete Nemeth Braille translation, accepts Braille clip-art and much more. Files are compatible with the latest DBT for windows and MS-DOS. Availability: Commercial Product.
Contact: Duxbury Systems, Inc. USA
Phone: +1-978-486-9766
Fax: +1-978-486-9712
E-mail: info@duxsys.com
A utility for magnification, widening of various windows, changing the contrast and color tone displayed regardless of the software being used.
Availability: Commercial Product
Contact: Kohshin Graphic Systems Inc. Japan.
Phone: +81-011-281-9391
Fax: +81-011-208-2035
E-mail: info@kohshin-graphic-sys.com
Utility for magnifying part of your screen up to 32x; also displays coordinates and RGB values.
Availability: Freeware
Contact: Greg Ware
E-mail: feedback@grogware.com
Popchart [D] providing visually impaired individuals the ability to "see" information contained in graphs by providing D-link descriptive text with each chart and graph. A screen reader can read the descriptive text, providing the visually impaired the same accesses to the information as other users.
Availability: Commercial product
Contact: Corda, USA
Phone: +1-800-968-3240
+1-800-805-9400
Fax: +1-801-805-9405
E-mail: support@corda.com
Utility for enlarging the cursor to 32 x 32or 32x 65 pixels; great for visually impaired users; Quick Point feature can jump the cursor to the OK/Save/Open/Default button.
Availability: Commercial Product
Contact: R. J. Cooper & Associates
Phone: +1-800-7526-6737
+1-949-661-6904
Fax: +1-949-240-9785
E-mail: rj@rjcooper.com
Feature a 101-style keyboard in a combination of raised Braille characters and high contrast, large print on adhesive labels, which adhere directly to the top of the keyboard's key.
Availability: Commercial Product
Contact: Hooleon Corp. USA
Phone: +1-800-937-1337
+1-520-634-1337
Fax: +1-520-635-4620
E-mail: info@hooleon.com
Designed for trained Braille transcribers; this is a simple Braille editor.
Availability: Freeware
Contact: James Jennings
E-mail: jennings@halcyon.com
This is a mouse-training program for the blind.
Availability: Commercial Product
Contact: R. J. Cooper & Associates
Phone: +1-800-7526-6737
+1-949-661-6904
Fax: +1-949-240-9785
E-mail: rj@rjcooper.com
Utility which magnifies the section of your screen under the cursor.
Availability: freeware
Contact: Allen Gainsford
E-mail: ajgains@mac.com
Utility which magnifies the screen, color inversion, easy cursor location, three different glass motions, and more. InLarge can be adjusted to give people with low vision access to most Macintosh applications.
Availability: Commercial product
Contact: ALVA Access Group Inc. USA
Phone: +1-510-451-2582
Fax: +1-510-451-0878
E-mail: info@aagi.com
Jumbo editor is recommended to the person who has difficulties reading the screen.
Availability: Commercial Product
Contact: Kohshin Graphic Systems Inc. Japan
Phone: +81-011-281-9391
Fax: +81-011-208-2035
E-mail: info@kohshin-graphic-sys.com
Designed for low light environments and vision impaired users, these keyboard labels feature large print characters; available in a range of color options.
Availability: Commercial Product
Contact: Hooleon Corp. USA
Phone: +1-800-937-1337
+1-520-634-7515
Fax: +1-520-635-4620
E-mail: info@hooleon.com
This utility provides a magnifies view of what's under your cursor, with magnifications from 1:2 through to 1:8.
Availability: Freeware
Contact: ARTIS Software, Austria
Phone: +43-01-533-1786
Fax: +43-01-533-6045
E-mail: contacct@artissoftware.com
outSPOKEN allows blind and visually impaired people to use the computer. Talking interface announces virtually everything on the screen. Combined with a powerful, yet easy to learn navigation tool, which eliminates the use of the mouse, outSPOKEN, allows access to even the most complex applications.
Availability: Commercial Product
Contact: ALVA Access Group Inc. USA
Phone: +1-510-451-2582
Fax: +1-510-451-0878
E-mail: info@aagi.com
Utility for magnifying of your screen; also displays coordinates and RGB values.
Availability: Freeware
Contact: White Box
E-mail: s.sudrefree.fr
Utility that lets you zoom in on a screen of your screen with magnification ranges from 1:1 through to 32:1.
Availability: Freeware
Contact: Brian Hall
E-mail: brian@isaac.biola.edu
This text writing applications was designed for vision impaired users.
Availability: Shareware
Contact: Crescendo Software
E-mail: chris@crescendosw.com
Talking keys Pro version 2.0 has been designed for blind and sight impaired users. Every command and keystroke can be spoken. It features a word processor, a pronunciation editor and file commands that can be sued by a blind user.
Availability: Commercial Product
Contact: Graham Software Co. USA
Phone: +1-303-422-0757
E-mail: blg@indra.com
VCD is a collection of 30 different utilities that make using a Macintosh computer easier for the visually impaired.
Availability: Commercial Product
Contact: Dairnac Developments, Canada
Phone: +1-416-466-4732
Fax: +1-416-466-3196
E-mail: brian@dairnac.com
Designed for low light environments and vision impaired users, these stick on keyboard labels feature large print alphabetic and numeric characters.
Availability: Commercial Product
Contact: Meeting the Challenge Inc. USA
Phone: +1-719-444-0252
E-mail: information@mtc-inc.com
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