Agencies

Vision Australia Foundation formally the Association for the Blind, Melbourne, Australia
Disability Information Victoria - Victoria, Australia that is.
The Royal National Institute for the Blind, London, UK.
But see also from London: Information for Professionals Working with Visually Disabled People
Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind in Melbourne, Australia
The Guide Dog Association of New South Wales and the ACT, Australia
The Guide Horse Foundation. Something rather different!.

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Assistive Technology

AbilityHub - Assistive Technology for computers and disability.
Radio on the web - A super site designed for use by the Vision Impaired.

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Aids to Perception

The vOICe Seeing with your Ears from Peter Meijer in Holland.
Sonic Vision by Leslie Kay, including videos of KASPA in action.

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Electronic Travel Aids for the Vision Impaired

Current ETAs: a very comprehensive list from Duen Hsi Yen.
The Institute for Inovative Blind Navigation: Doug Baldwin's tour de force.

The Mowat Sensor: a delightful little hand held ultrasonic torch which I fear is no longer available.
The MiniGuide: a little hand held ultrasonic torch which I have yet to see but which sounds as if it is a suitable Mowat replacement.
The Sonic Pathfinder: the 'state of the art' microprocessor controlled travel aid.

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Research

Bee Vision (the insect, that is), from the Australian National University.
The Blind Mobility Research Unit, Nottingham, UK.
MoBIC, Magdeburg, Germany.
The Sensory Disabilities Research Unit, Herts. UK.
Steve Mann's inventions relating to the visually challenged:

• Personal Imaging (includes applications for the visually challenged)
• Wearable, tetherless computer-mediated reality with applications to the disabled
• The BlindVision project (wearable radar, sonar, etc., with vibrotactile output, VibraVest, Vibrotach, etc.
• Image stabilization based on VideoOrbits (useful for certain visual disorders that pertain to difficulties perceiving the world as visually continuous)
• Synthetic Synesthesia for the BlindVision project.
• The Chirplet Transform (developed in the 1980s and early 1990s for signal processing in the BlindVision project). With appropriate processing, the wearer becomes blind to targets that are moving away, solving the "information overload" problem of earlier embodiments of VibraVest.
• Wearable face-recognizer for the visually challenged, implemented using personal imaging
• Other WearComp-related publications

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Links to links: Resources

For low vision stuff, I recomend the Low Vision Gateway
Also you might like to try:
Blind Related Links, from the USA
Disability Resources from Evan Kemp Associates, USA
Links to a huge number of Health Conditions and Resources, USA
Yahoo - Blindness , USA.
20/20 WebSearch; all things visual, USA.

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Personal web pages

Arne Harder's Home Page: Information on mobility in German and in English.
Marten van Doorn's Homepage: IMC history, and much more.
Dotmaker's Home Page a developing site. One to watch.
Vision Impairments: A guide for the Perplexed a site in need of another name!

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Orientation and Mobility

Orientation and Mobility, Texas, USA.
The University of Mass. Vision Rehabilitation Project, Boston, Mass.

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Health and Fitness for Seniors

A resource guide from the Madison Trust Company

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Good web page design

A guide to good web page writing may be found at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

And when you have written it:

Submit it to

The Centre for Applied and Special Technology where Bobby will analyse it for "blind-friendliness".
Go on, I dare you!

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