Other Useful Sites

Composite List of Disability Related Sites

ABLEDATA Database: A database of products for people with disabilities

Access First: Access First is about making things happen through quality assistive technology that promotes access to individuals with physical disabilities.

Adobe PDF Access: Information on universal access for ADOBE Acrobat, including information about converting Acrobat PDF files to more accessable HTML files.

A. I Squared: Makers of Zoom Text, enlargement software for DOS/Windows, and Visability, scanning enlargement software for Windows.

Alva B. V.: Makers of screen enlargement "enLarge", speech output "outSpoken", and Braille output.

American Council of the Blind: Organization of Blind and Visually Impaired persons.

American Foundation for te Blind: Organization for Blind and Visually Impaired persons.

American Printing House for the Blind: Providers of special media, tools, and materials needed for education and life.

American Thermoform Co.: Maker of Braille Embossors and Tactile emaging systems.

Ann Morris Enterprises Inc.: Catalog of products for people with disabilities.

Apple Disability: Information about software and services, on the Macintosh operating system, for persons with disabilities.

Applied Learning Corporation: A corporation whose mission is to "provide a family of services and an array of products to enhance performance and protect well-being wherever keyboards are used, to bring computer access to as many people as possible.

Artic Technologies: Makers of speech output equipment for the visually impaired.

Articulate Systems: Makers of Power Secritary, a speach input system for the Macintosh and PC.

Biolink Computer Reserach Technology: Makers of Protalk speech output system for Win '95 and Win NT

Blind Programing Site: This site has resources for those who use Braille nad speech output in programming.

Blind + Linux (BLINUX)": Resource for blind user of Linux

Braille Remote Learning: This site features a course on learning Braille via the WWW and e-mail

Braille Resources: All sorts of good stuff about Braille.

Breaking New Ground: A resource for rehabilitation technology for people working in agriculture.

C-Cad: Location for downloading assistive Software Demos.

Center on Applied Special Technology: A source of information on creating accessible web sites. This sites also includes links to Bobby which is a program which checks the accessibility of a given sites

Command Corp.: Voice input systems.

Dolphin Computer Access LTD.: Products for people with visual impairments

Don Johnston Inc.: Product for people with special needs.

Dotsplus: One way of making mathematical symbols accessable to those with visual disabilities.

Dragon Systems: Voice input software for the PC.

Duxbury Systems: Braille translation software.

EconoNet International Speech Series: Makers of an inexpensive Windows screen reader Simply Talker. They also make some utilities which make the Internet more accessible

Empowerment Zone: The Empowerment Zone has all sorts of useful information such as using Windows via keyboard comands and tutorials on using various programs with speech output

Enabling Technologies Co.: Braille Printers and other products for people with visual and reading disabilities.

Equal Access to Software and Information -- (EASI): Providers of information and guidence to the education community with respect to technology and disabilities.

Eudora Home Page -- (Qualcomm Inc.): Information about Eudroa including dowloads of Eudora light, help and reference, and plug-ins to make Eudora more powerful and easier to use.

First-Byte: This company makes text to speech software for a PC sound card.

Freedom Scientific: Makers of a wide variety of hardware and software including screen readers, screen magnifiers, text-to-speech, talking notetakers, Braille notetakers, and Braille embossers.


G.H. LLC: gh is a leading provider of braille translation services, tactile graphics, and accessible HTML for the disabilities community.< /DD>

GW Micro: Maker and reseller of several programs for people with visual impairments.

Hunter Digital: Maker of the NoHand Mouse, a mouse operated by foot

IBM Access Center: Special needs services and software from IBM.

In Touch Systems: Makers of a keyboard and mouse system which requires no force to operate.

Independent Living Aids: Catalog of adaptive equipment.

Index Embossor Co.: Makers of Braille embossors

Infogrip Co.: Infogrip's Options Catalog features a huge selection of quality computer input and adaptive computer products.

Information Access Laboratory
: The Information Access Laboratory is dedicated to encouraging students with disabilities in the sciences by eliminating barriers that hinder their educational pursuits.

JBliss Imaging Systems: Makers of a Text-To-Speech and Web Browsing software with enlargement and speech output

JawBone: This set of macros and scripts are designed to make it feasible to use JAWS (Job Access With Speech) and Dragon Naturally Speaking.

Job Accomodation Network: Service of the federal government to help disabled people get jobs.

Kensington Ltd.: Maker of trackballs and other input devices that can help people with disabilities.

Keyboard Alternatives & Vision Solutions, Inc.: Resellers of all sorts of alternative computer input devices

Keyboard Alternatives: Listing of alternitive keyboards to help people with various types of disabilities.

Kurzweil AI: Voice Input Systems for the PC.

Kurzweil Educational Systems: Makers of Printed Text-Speech Systems

L. S. & S. Group: Large catalog of adaptive products

Library of Congress: Along with its print material the Library of Congress also provides reading material in alternate formats including Braille and an audio cassette tape.

Lorien Systems: Products for people with disabilities for improving ease of communication and prospects of employment.

Madenta: Products for persons with mobility impairments.

MathTalk: This company produces a program which allows one to use speech input to produce mathematical print or Braille (Nemeth Code)

Matias Corporation: Makers of Half-QWERTY one-handed typing software.

Microsoft Disability: Microsoft's information software to assist people with disabilities.

MicroTalk Co.: Maker of ASAP Speech output software.

MindMaker Inc.: Makers of Text Assist an inexpensive speech output program for reading text in Windows Programs.

Multi-line refreshable Braille display breakthrough: Experimental Braille output device.

National Braille Press: Organization which has Braille translation and other services.

National Center on Accessibility: This organization is involved with accessibilty to parks and outdoor areas

National Federation of the Blind: Organization of Blind and Visually Impaired persons.

One Hand Typing and Keyboarding
: This page contains information and resources on typing and keyboarding with one hand. A tutorial is also availible from this site to teach one hand typing on a standard keyboard.

Optelec U.S. Inc.: Makers of low vision aids,

Optek Systems: Makers and resellers of Braille software and hardware

Ostrage Software: Maker of the RoadRunner a small device which plays computer text files audibly.

OVAC: Okay Vision-Aide Corp. Maker of low vision aid including video enlargers.

Parrott Microphone: The VXI Parrot Microphone has a signal processor to work better with voice input

Pulse Data International: Maker of products for people with visual impairments.

Purdue Advocates for Disability Issues (P. A. D. I.): Student Group at Purdue University.

Purdue's "Mail*Hub" Home page: This page includes information on how Purdue faculty/staff/students can get and e-mail account. It is also possible to use Purdue's electronic phone directory from this page.

Purdue University Accessibility Initiative
: This website was designed specifically as a resource to empower multimedia and Internet developers at Purdue University in developing course materials, presentations and websites that are fully accessable to those with disabilities on the World Wide Web.

R F B & D: Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic makes book available in alternative formats for people with reading impairments.

RJ Cooper's Special Needs Home Page: All sorts of products for people with special needs.

Repro-Tronics: Maker of products to assist blind and visually impaired individuals in the creation and understanding of tactile graphic images.

Science Access Project: This project has created sever peices of software and hadware for use by people who are blind, most notably the TIGER tactile graphics embossor

Screen Magnifiers Home Page: A good general page of information on screen magnifiers and other useful information about low vision. There is a non-frames version of the Screen Magnifier Home Page page

Sighted Electronics: Providers of computer systems and adaptive technology for persons with blindness or visual impairments

TAEVIS: Tactile Access to Education for Visually Impaired Students. Purdue's Braille and Tactile Graphics production facility.

TeleSensory: Maker of products for blind and low vision people.

Text-To-Speech: Information on Dec-Talk speech synthisizers and links to information to a few other types of synthisizers

Trace Research & Development Center: This is a large collection of software and information for, and about, people with disiabilities.

TextWare Solutions: Word prediction software.

Virtouch Mouse: Makers of the Virtouch Tactile Mouse

Virtual Reality Mouse: This is a force feedback mouse wich allows the user to feel screen elements.

Visionware Software Inc.: Makers of LP DOS a Windows compatible screen ensargement package.

Web Accessability Project: All sorts of different solutions for using the web.

WebABLE!: This is a database of information for assisting people with disabilities.

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