Website links that you might find helpful

1. South African Sites

2. Vendors of Adaptive Technology

3. Other Sites

1. South African Sites

• Touch Trails - tours for the visually impaired (brochure)
• Eco-Access
• Johannesburg Society for the Blind
• Natal Society for the Blind
• S A National Council for the Blind
• South African Guide-dog Association
• Tape Aids for the blind
• Enabler Employment of disabled people
• South African Disabled Musicians Association
• National Accessibility Portal
• Helen Keller
• Institute for the Blind

2. Vendors of Adaptive Technology:

• American Printing House for the blind - Products including the HandyCassette, four track cassette player/recorder, ColorTest, etc.
• Ann Morris Enterprises - Vendor of huge range of adaptive equipment and software and numerous handy house-hold appliances and much more.
• Blind software.com - Source for accessible shareware, freeware, and demo software downloads for the visually impaired.
• Cobolt Systems - Vendors of a wide range of adaptive devices, including many talking devices with sound samples.
• Criss-cross Technologies - Producers of various cassette tutorials for several popular software packages, including Windows 98, MS Word, MS Excel, WordPerfect and others.
• Disability Specialties - Vendor of huge range of adaptive equipment and software and numerous handy house-hold appliances and much more.
• Freedom Scientific - Manufacturers of the Pac Mate, JFW screen reading software and Open Book text scanning software
• GW Micro home page - Manufacturers of the Window-Eyes screen reading software and vendors of the Braille Sense personal assistant.
• HumanWare - Dealers in adaptive technology, offering Braille, speech and enlargement solutions.
• LS & S Group, Inc. - Vendors of many products for visually and hearing impaired people.
• Neville Clarence Technologies - South African importer and vendor of adaptive products.
• Sensory Solutions - South African importer and vendor of adaptive products.

3. Other Sites:

• International Council of Education of Visually Impaired
• Adjustment to blindness and Visual Impairment
• Braille Plus, Inc.
• Camera Obscura - E-texts, blindness related resources, etc.
• Chicago Blind Computer Users Network
• Duxbury Systems
• Internet Public Library - Over 10000 e-texts
• Project Gutenberg
• Screen Magnifiers Homepage - Comparisons of screen magnifiers
• Technical books in electronic format
• The American Council of the blind
• The National Federation of the blind (U.S.A.)
• The New Zealand Association of the Blind and Partially Blind
• The Royal National Institute for the Blind (U.K.)
• Canadian National Institute for the Blind
• The American Printing House for the Blind
• The Blind Readers' Page
• V. I. Guide, a guide to Internet resources about visual impairments, for parents and teachers
• The Blindness Resource Center
• The Braille Monitor
• The Disability Related Bookstore
• The E-Access Bulletin
• The International Braille Research Center
• The International Council on English Braille (ICEB)
• The Low Vision Gateway
• The Movie Reviews Page
• The National Braille Press (U.S.A.)
• The Online Books Page - Listing of over 20,000 free books
• The Pumamouse Many old-time radio sound bites to download
• Association for the physically Disabled
• Commonwealth of Nations