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Vis-Ability (DK) - Supplies electronic aids for the visually impaired.

Enablers for visually impaired young adults with learning difficulties - Resource and contact site for enablers working with visually impaired young adults with learning difficulties.

RNIB - Charles Bonnet Syndrome - 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.

Lowell Association for the Blind - 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.

AccessDome - Resources for the blind. A web portal designed to enhance vision impaired and print restricted access to the web.

Kenneth Jernigan: 'power to the blind' - Article on the late director of the Iowa Commission for the Blind.

Recording For The Blind and Dyslexic - 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.

Empower Connection - Technology for the Blind - Information and help for people using assistive Internet technology.

Blindness Emailing Lists - Subscribe to blindness-related emailing lists and pan-disability and access-issues lists directly from this comprehensive hypertext index.

Talking Software - Offers a word speech enabled dictionary and thesaurus for blind users. All controls are designed with unsighted user in mind.

SensibleGraphics - Tactile Graphics for Blind and Visually Impaired - Information on tactile graphics for the blind and visually impaired. Graphic files free to download.

Blindskills, Inc. - Offers solutions and answers to questions regarding blindness, visual impairment and vision loss.

Accessible Games - Portal for blind and visual impaired children. Accessible games, remixers and more. Make you own hompage for free with your screenreader.

Video Description by Narrative Television Network - Makes movies and television programming accessible to blind and visually impaired people through narration.

Living with Vision Loss - 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.

The Blind Readers Page - A source of information about books and reading, blindness and other disabilities and library services for the blind and physically handicapped.

Blind Group For Women - Help, support and friendship for low vision women.

Louis Database - 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.

Artificial Vision - Homepage - The Dobelle Institute (Portugal) Lda. announces development of an artificial vision system providing independent mobility to blind people.

Envision - Flash presentation on the research at the Duke University Eye Center to eliminate blindness.

Community Services for the Blind and Partially Sighted - Provides assorted information and resources for visually impaired people.

SeebyTouch - 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.

VICUG-L - A visually impaired computer users' group list. Search the archives and join from this site.

Savon Condition Center - A comprehensive information site including medical references and tools. [Only available in Internet Explorer and Netscape browsers]

V I P News - A voluntary site for daily updated links to related news stories from around the world.

Blind BBS - a list for the discussion of issues concerning the blind

A Blind Our Motto - Directory of links and other resources for the blind.

VisionConnection - Vision information and an accessible community for people who are partially sighted or blind. Searchable database of resources, and articles.

The Eye - Includes what to do when meeting a person with vision impairment, the signs of vision loss, legal blindness, braille and other health related links.

Blindness in Depth - Provides articles and links to information about the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual impact of blindness.

The Voice - Translates images from a camera into sounds that one hears via stereo headphones and targetting vision substitution for the totally blind.