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• D´s Goalball Links
  Goalball Fan's have slided by this web page since Feb. 1, 1996!
• Daas Counsulting
  Canadian company marketing a Vision Simulator Kit that will help you teach sighted individuals about different vision disorders and increase their understanding of the challenges faced by a person with a visual impairment.
• DAISY Consortium
  The digital talking-book consortium in which several countries and libraries are involved.
• Daisy for all project
  DAISY for All (DFA in short) will deploy DAISY technology and address goals and objectives which include capacity building in developing countries and to serve as a catalyst to generate broader alliances supporting the global sharing of human knowledge in the information society.

• Dans le Noir
  You are going to live an unbelievable experience : eating or having a drink in the complete darkness. With the help of our blinded guides you are going to completely re-evaluate the notion of taste and smelling through our gastronomic and pedagogical process. (Also in French and Spanish)

• Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind
  A multi-service rehabilitation agency for the visually impaired, located in Dallas, Texas.
• Dancing Dots
  The company behind GOODFEEL braille music translator.
• Danish Association of the Blind
  Danish Association of the Blind, "Dansk Blindesamfund", is an all-blind organization. This means that DAB is formed and run by people who suffer from blindness or severe visual impairment.
• Danish Centre for Technical Aids for Rehabilitation and Education
  The centre aims to contribute towards integration and the creation of equal opportunities for disabled people in society - within the fields of rehabilitation, assistive technology and special education.
• Danish Council of Organisations of Disabled People (DSI)
  DSI is the only Danish umbrella organisation in the disability field. DSI has today 29 member organisations.
• Dancing Dots
  The company behind GOODFEEL braille music translator.
• Darmstädter Tonband- und Stereofreunde
  About talking newspapers i the city of Darmstadt, Germany, for the blind and visually impaired. (In German)
• Data Braille Service
  Belgian distributor of assistive technology for the visually impaired. (In Flemish).
• Daydreaming Fingers (Les Doigts Qui Rêvent)
  Specialised publisher for blind children, visually impaired children and multihandicapped children with the aim to struggle against the exclusion of blind children and visualy impaired children by providing them tactile albums and tactile games.
• DB-Link
  The National Information Clearinghouse On Children Who Are Deaf-Blind.
• de Vlasborch
  Dutch centre for people with visual impairment. (In Dutch)
• Deaf-Blind Perspectives
  Deaf-Blind Perspectives is a free journal-like publication, sponsored by Teaching Research, that focuses on all pertinent issues important to people who are deaf-blind, and the people who serve them.
• DeafBlind Association (NSW)
  Association of deafblind people in New South Wales, Australia.
• Deafblind International
  DbI is the world association promoting services for deafblind people.

• DeafBlind New Zealand
  DeafBlind New Zealand arose from the need seen in the NZ Foundation for the Blind, for a separate Society run by DeafBlind people themselves. We became an Incorporated Society in January 1989.

• Deafblind Scotland
  This site was created to provide information, advice and support to help people who have a dual sensory impairment, their families and friends and the professionals who work with them.
• Deafblind UK
  Deafblind UK is a national charity which provides a range of support services to deafblind adults and their carers.
• DEDINA Rehabilitation and Training Centre for the Blind
  The centre is the only establishment of its kind in the Czeck Republic. It provides blind and severely visually impaired people with residential blindness skills courses and the follow-up training and/or retraining for various jobs.
• Deicke Center for Visual Rehabilitation
  A rehabilitation center in Illinois.
• Deininger Mobile Hilfsmittelzentrale
  Deininger's Movable Center For Reading Aids was founded in 1993 as the first and still only information center for the blind and visually handicapped for the whole of Germany. This information center visits and counsels blind and visually handicapped free and independently from manufacturers.
• Delaware's Division for the Visually Impaired
  The Division for the Visually Impaired can provide education and support to Blind and Visually Impaired Delawareans and their families by helping them adjust and adapt to vision loss in the home, in the community, and in the workplace.
• Delco Blind/Sight Center
  The Delco Blind Sight Center is also known as the Delaware County branch of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind. Our mission is to enrich the quality of life for people who have blindness or vision impairments and to reduce the incidence of vision loss through prevention of blindness programs.
• Demor
  Demor is a location based 3D audio shooter. This game was developed by a multi-disciplinary team of seven students for the Bartimeus Institute for the Blind.

• Describe online
  Contains a hypertext map of the London Underground and National Rail networks and a growing number of text guides to stations.

• Desktalk Training and Technical Consultants
  Desktalk provides high quality training and technical support to people who are blind or vision impaired in employment within Australia.
• Desudo blindengeleidehonden
  Dutch guide dog centre. (In Dutch)
• Deutsche Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband e. V. (DBSV)
  The German Federation of Blind and Visually Impaired People (DBSV) represents the interests of blind and partially sighted people in Germany.
• Deutsche Blinden- und Sehbehinderten-Schachbund
  The Deutsche Blinden- und Sehbehinderten-Schachbund e. V. (DBSB) is the Top-Organization of the blind and low visioned chess players in Germany.
• Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt
  Wellknown German educational and rehabilitation center for the the blind and visually impaired, located in Marburg. (In German)
• Deutscher Blindenführhundehalterverein (DBFV)
  German association for guide dog users. (In German)
• Deutsche Zentralbücherei für Blinde (DZB)
  The German library for for the blind. (In German)
• Deutschen Vereins für Blindenführhunde und Mobilitätshilfen (DVBM)
  ndependent German Expert Centre for Guide Dogs. (Also in German)

• Developmental Delay Resources (DDR)
  A nonprofit organization dedicated to meeting the needs of those working with children who have developmental delays in sensory motor, language, social, and emotional areas. DDR publicizes research into determining identifiable factors that would put a child at risk and maintains a registry, tracking possible trends. DDR also provides a network for parents and professionals and current information after the diagnosis to support children with special needs.

• Devnar Foundation for the Blind
  The Foundation aims to provide opportunities on par with international standards for the visually challenged children of India so that they will be absorbed in the mainstream of society as socially productive adults.

• Devon Sensory Team
  We are a specialist County Council team providing services to people who are visually impaired, or have an acquired hearing loss, or who are Deaf. We also provide services to people who have a significant combination of hearing and sight loss.
• Diabetic Retinopathy Foundation
  The Diabetic Retinopathy Foundation is a Not-For-Profit Organization, whose mission is to support research and public awareness which will lead to the prevention of Diabetic Retinopathy.
• Diaglo
  Digalo.com is the latest place to hear all about speech-enabled mutimedia applications. Your premier web portal for a speech-driven world for end users.
• Dialogue in the Dark
  In Hamburg this internationally acclaimed show has now become established for the duration of five years. Visually impaired or totally blind people will open your eyes in the dark in order to show you a world that isn't any poorer, but different. (Also in German)
• Diesterwegschule Weimar
  German special school located in Weimar.
• Digital Journal of Ophthalmology
  A peer-reviewed ophthalmology journal on the World Wide Web.
• Disabilities Information Resources
  Information resource operated by Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (JSRPD).
• Disability Ombudsman in Sweden
  The Office of the Disability Ombudsman was established in 1994. The Ombudsman is to monitor the implementation of the UN Standard Rules, and to safeguarde the rights and interests of persons with disabilities in that spirit.

• Disabled People's Association Singapore
  Contains a section with links to v.i. sites.

• Disabled People's International (DPI)
  The purpose of DPI is to promote the Human Rights of People with Disabilities through full participation, equalization off opportunity and development. DPI has member organizations in over 110 countries.
• Disability Advice Welfare Network Blind Users Group (Dawnbug)
  This site will contain a variety of sections concerned with the use of computers by the blind.

• Disability Historical Association
  The Disability Historical Association in Sweden was formed in 1987. It is open to individuals, organisations and all that are interested in disability history.

• Disability History Museum
  The Disability History Museum's mission is to promote understanding about the historical experience of people with disabilities by recovering, chronicling, and interpreting their stories. Our goal is to help foster a deeper understanding of disability and to dispel lingering myths, assumptions, and stereotypes by examining these cultural legacies.
• Discovery Eye Foundation
  The Discovery Eye Foundation (DEF) is dedicated to finding cures and treatments for corneal and retinal eye disease.
• Do-It at the University of Washington
  Disabilities, opportunities, internetworking and technology information.
• Dobelle Institute - Artificial Vision System
  The artificial vision system for the blind is a device stimulating visual cortex of the brain.
• Dolphin Computer Access Limited
  Dolphin Computer Access Limited design, manufacture and distribute adaptive computer equipment for people who are blind or partially sighted. (Dolphin UK)
• Dolphin Computer Access, LLC
  Dolphin Computer Access, LLC are distributors of adaptive computer equipment for people who are blind or partially sighted. (Dolphin USA)
• Dorton College of Further Education
  Dorton College was founded in 1989 by the Royal London Society for the Blind in order to establish a unique partnership between a specialist college and the further education sector. The objective was to create a syndicate that enables visually impaired people to gain access to the widest range of provision on the basis of equality with their sighted peers.
• Dorton House School
  Dorton House School is a non-maintained special school run by the Royal London Society for the Blind. The school is located southeast of London. The education covers from early years to the age of 16.
• DosVox
  Developed by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro the DosVox package is widely used in Brazil due to low cost and many functions. (In Portuguese)
• Dot to Dot
  Dot to Dot is a simple braille editor for the Macintosh. It is intended to be used by trained braille transcribers.
• Dothit
  Here you will find information about Dothit produtcs. As for now our one and only product is Dothit Composer: A computer program for music writing in braille. More to come though.
• Dots Braille Transcription Service
  We can transcribe text and graphics into Nemeth Code, Foreign Language Codes, Literary Braille, Picture Braille and Tactile Graphics.
• Dots under Fingers
  Dots under Fingers is a personal home page which is mainly blindness related. I have named this home page Dots under Fingers because to read the tactile system called BRAILLE, usually the fingers of a blind glide over raised dots which are embossed on paper.
• DotsPlus
  DotsPlus is a set of tactile fonts that permits virtually any computer document written in a language based on the roman alphabet to be printed in a form readable by a blind person.
• Dräger & Lienert Informationsmanagement
  German distributor of assistive technology for the visually impaired. (In German)
• Duxbury Systems
  We have a new website! All the content that you have known and loved (or maybe not) from the Duxbury and Braille Planet websites has been brought together into a new unified site.We develop and market software for braille production. The site has also braille relevant information.

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• E.C.E. Konrad Lukaszewicz
  Polish distributor of assistive technology. (In Polish)
• E-access Bulletin
  E-access Bulletin is an electronic newsletter, produced by Headstar. The Bulletin's main sponsor is the Royal National Institute for the Blind. The project is also supported by the National Library for the Blind, and the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.
• e-Inclusion
  The European Commission adopts the Communication "European i2010 initiative on e-Inclusion - to be part of the information society.
• Easy Talk Computers
  Easy Talk is a Florida based company that is dedicated to providing quality access equipment for the visually impaired while keeping the cost as low as possible.
• Ebenezer School & Home for the Visually Impaired
  Special school, training centre and care & attention home in Hong Kong.
• ECE
  Polish distributor of assistive technology. (In Polish)
• Echurch-UK
  We are an online community of visually impaired Christians, based in the United Kingdom.

• eClipseReader
  eClipseReader is a Daisy book reader developed by Innovative Rehabilitation Technology Inc.

• Ecole de Chiens Guides d'Aveugles de Lyon et du Centre-Est
  French guide dog centre located in the area of Lyon. (In French)

• Ecole Limousine de Chiens Guides d'Aveugles
  French guide dog centre located in Limoges. (In French)

• EconoNet International
  Simply Talker is an inexpensive screen reader. It works with applications that comply with the Active Accessibility standard and has a built-in software based text to speech engine.
• Educator's Reference Desk
  The Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice.
• Electronic Aids for the Blind
  Electronic Aids for the Blind is a UK national charity founded in 1978 by Brian and Jane Payne who are both registered blind. They realised over twenty years ago just how important technology would be for people with sight loss.
• Elternselbsthilfe sehgeschädigter Kinder Österreichs
  Austrain association of parents to visually impaired children. (In German)

• Emil Fries School of Piano Tuning and Technology
  The mission of the Emil Fries School of Piano Tuning and Technology is to provide specialized quality education leading to successful careers in the field of piano service.

• Empowerment Zone
  Empowerment Zone offers information, ideas, and software related to my interests and the theme of empowerment -- helping individuals and communities achieve self actualization and full citizenship.
• En-Vision America
  The company behind i.d. mate, a portable electronic device that allows the user to associate a voice message with a scanned bar code.
• Enabling Technologies Comp.
  We design, manufacture, and support the Braille embossers.
• English Blind Golf Association
  Blind Golf is played strictly to the Rules of Golf produced by the R&A. The R&A has published "A Modification of the Rules of Golf for Golfers with Disabilities" which allows blind golfers to ground their club in a hazard.
• English National Association of Visually Handicapped Bowlers
  The English National Association of Visually Handicapped Bowlers is made up of more than 50 member clubs and has more than 600 members.
• Enhanced Network Acceibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ENABLED)
  The aim of the ENABLED project, funded by the European Commission, is to improve access of visually impaired persons to the Internet.
• Enhanced Vision Systems
  Enhanced Vision Systems is a company dedicated to the development of effective technology for the visually impaired. EVS, located in Southern California, is the manufacturer of V-max and Max.
• enLogic
  enLogic entered the area of Adaptive Technologies in 1996. Until now it is the only Greek company that continuously supports it's visually impaired customers.
• Envision
  Envision is a private, not-for-profit US agency combining employment opportunities with rehabilitation services. Anyone who is legally to totally blind is eligible.
• Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI)
  Very large information resource on access to software and information.
• Equality and Human Rights Commission
  The commission is working to eliminate discrimination, reduce inequality, protect human rights and to build good relations, ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to participate in the British society.
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
  The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education (ERIC EC) is one of 16 federally funded clearinghouses in the ERIC system.

• Erocos International
  Belgian distributor of technical aids for the visually impaired. (In Flemish)

• Eschenbach Optic of America
  Eschenbach has been making fine quality German magnifying vision aids for over 80 years. Eschenbach Optik of America, Inc. has been distributing Eschenbach magnifiers for the past 15 years.
• eSight Careers Network
  This is your place to find the right work situation for you - one in which you can gain personal satisfaction and independence by fully using your skills to help your employer or your own customers succeed.
• ESP Softworks
  ESP Softworks is a developer of accessible game software for the blind and visually impaired using cutting edge technologgies and innovation. Our primary development arena includes products developed for personal entertainment.
• Eurisco Information Systems
  Eurisco Information Systems is a Swiss software house active in the field of rehabilitation technology for visually impaired PC users. It is located near Lugano, Switzerland. One of the biggest projects we are involved in is the Swiss Electronic Kiosk for the Blind.
• euroBRAILLE
  French producer of refresable braille displays and braille note takers. (In French)
• Eurochance Project
  The aim of the EU financed project is to widen the range of employment opportunities for the blind and visually impaired, improve their qualifications and skills and make the professional community aware of their knowledge and competences.
• European Academy of Childhood Disability (EACD)
  EACD is an academic association of professionals working with children with disability throughout Europe.

• European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education
  An independent, self-governing organisation supported by the Ministries of Education in the 15 participating EU countries, Norway and Iceland and the European Commission.

• European Association for the Study of Diabetic Eye Complications (EASDEC)
  EASDEC is a sub-group of EASD, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. The main purpose of the group is to organise a yearly meeting to disseminate the results of the latest research and best medical care of diabetic eye disease.
• European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER)
  EVER is a non-profit organisation. The aims of the Association shall be to encourage research and the dissemination of knowledge concerning the eye and vision by means of meetings, publications and exchange activities.
• European Blind Union (EBU)
  The voice of blind and partially sighted people in Europe.
• European Deafblind Network (EDbN)
  EDbN is an organisation of representatives of National organisations of Deafblind people, Family members of Deafblind people and Professionals organisations in Europe. EDbN is officially recognised as a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) representing the interest of Deafblind People, Family members and Professionals in EU.
• European Disability Forum
  European Disability Forum was set up by organisations of disabled people in recognition of the need for a truly representative consultative body with a broad mandate, and a proactive approach to disability issues in the European Union.

• European Organization of Rare Diseases (EURODIS)
  An alliance of patients associations dedicated to improving the quality of life of people having rare diseases in Europe. Modeled on the American association NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders) EURORDIS is now a coalition of more than 199 associations and 7 established and 3 potential National Alliances of patient organisations associated with rare diseases from 14 countries in Europe.

• ETEX France
  French distributor of assistive technology for visually impaired users.

• EVAS - AbilityPro
  For twenty years, EVAS has provided access solutions for individuals, educators, businesses and state and federal agencies. Located in Westerly, RI.
• Evision Optics
  This is where the Dutch company Evision Optics will present its products. The company developes, manufactures and supplies advanced optical and electronical devices for improved vision.

• Exceptional Teaching Aids
  Our mission is to help individuals with special needs acquire the skills and attitudes required to function effectively as contributing members of society.

• Exhall Grange Old Pupils
  A site for old pupils ox Exhall Grange School.
• Eye Cancer Network
  This is an educational web-site about the diagnosis and treatment of ocular tumors, eye cancer, and orbital diseases for patients, their families and health professionals who care for them.
• Eye Diseases from Karolinska Institutet
  A large collection of links to sites dealing with eye diseases.
• Eye Health
  This page is intended as a general resource for eye health and care in the UK.
• Eye Mate
  Guide dog training centre in Japan.
• Eye Patch Kids
  "The Eye Patch Kids" DVD helps children who are dealing with amblyopia, strabismus and cataracts.
• Eye Talk English
  Eye Talk English aspires to provide a unique experience for visually impaired young people and adults by offering Homestay Language Courses for the blind and partially sighted.
• Eye of the Pacific
  Eye of the Pacific Guide Dogs and Mobility Services, Inc. was organized in 1955. We are a volunteer, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization that fills a vital need by providing quality trained dogs and electronic sensor aids to be the eyes of blind residents of Hawaii.
• Eye Site (International Council of Ophthalmology)
  The Eye Sight is a guide to finding information and resources related to eye care and ophthalmology around the world. It offers ways to connect and communicate with people committed to ophthalmic education, the prevention of blindness and restoration of vision.
• Eye Site
  An internet source for up-to-date information on the eyes, including the latest preventive techniques, the latest medical and nutritional therapies.
• EyeCare Connections and CyberLens
  The EyeCare Connection provides numerous articles and reports on eye health and vision care.
• EyeCare Foundation
  We are an approved nonprofit charity dedicated to promote research and help patients with macular degeneration, tumors of the eye, and related eye diseases.
• EyeHelp
  EyeHelp was formed to offer a unique reference point on eye problems and eye care. Whatever your eye colour or condition, you'll find useful advice on eye care, glasses, lenses and treatments here.
• EyeMax
  EYEMAX.COM is an online information resource for the Eyecare Professional.
• EyeNet Sweden
  EyeNet Sweden was instituted in January 2003 and its general purpose would be to act as a centre of competence within the field of ophthalmic quality registries.
• EyeSearch
  EyeSearch is dedicated to being a comprehensive source of information about vision and the eye.
• Eyeway
  This site intends to be a comprehensive source of information of material that informs, inspires and includes persons with visual impairments.

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• F. AD. Müller Söhne
  German company specialized in artificial eyes serving clients in several European countries. (Mainly in German)
• Fachhochschule Giessen Friedberg - Zentrum für Blind und Sehbehinderte Studierende (BliZ)
  Support centre for visually impaired students at the university college of Giessen Friedberg, Germany. (Also in German)
• Feach
  Feach is an Irish Parent Support Group for Blind and Visually Impaired Children formed in 1994. The aim of the association is to support the Education, Training, Communication and Social needs of Blind and Visually Impaired children.
• Federación Argentina de Deportes para Ciegos (FADEC)
  The Argentinian Blind Sports Federation homepage. (In Spanish)
• Federación Espańola de Deportes para Ciego (FEDC)
  The Spanish Blind Sport Association. (In Spanish)

• Federatie Slechtzienden- en Blindenbelang
  Dutch umbrella organisation for organisations of visually impaired people. (In Dutch)

• Federatie van Ouders van Visueel Gehandicapten (FOVIG)
  Dutch Federation of parents of Impaired Children.

• Fédération des Aveugles et Handicapés Visuels de France (FAF)
  French organization of the visually impaired founded in 1921. (In French)
• Federation of Swedish Speaking Visually Impaired in Finland
  The FSVIF is a contact, interest and service organization of all Swedish speaking visually handicapped in Finland.
• Federazione Italiana Associazioni Retinite Pigmentosa (FIARP)
  Italian association for people with Retinitis Pigmentosa. (In Italian)
• Ferguson Enterprises
  Distributor of technology for the blind and visually impaired.
• Fight for Sight
  Fight for Sight is the UK's leading charity in the battle against blindness, funding first-class research into the prevention and treatment of eye disease and injury.
• Firma AASB Maria Seidling
  German company specialized in adaptation of the place of work for the visually impaired. (In German)

• Films involving Disabilities
  This site presents a detailed list of 2,500 feature films which involve in one way or another various disabilities. It is directed towards teachers, students and anyone who has an interest in how disability is represented in films.

• Finnish Deafblind Association
  Organization of deafblind and people with severe visual and hearing impairments in Finland.

• Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired
  The FFVI is an interest organization and a service organization representing the visually impaired in Finnish society. The FFVI has got 25 member organizations. The FFVI was founded in 1928.
• Finnish Guide Dog School
  The aim of the Guide Dog School is to raise, train and provide guide dogs for blind and qualified visually impaired people. Guide Dog School works under Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired.

• Finnish Library for the Visually Impaired (Celia)
  The Finnish Library for the Visually Impaired is a government-financed special library which serves the whole of Finland. It produces and lends braille books, talking books, electronic books and other special material.

• Fjeldsenden, Bjarne Home Page
  Dr Bjarne Fjeldsenden, a Norwegian researcher, presents some of his paper on visual impairment.
• Florida Lions Camp for the Visually Handicapped
  Each handicapped camper is given an opportunity to achieve a measure of individual success in his particular means of expression. This is accomplished through a regular daily schedule of activities.
• Florida Lions Center for the Blind
  The Florida Lions Conklin Center for the Blind is a nationally-accredited human service organization in Daytona Beach, Florida.
• Florida Reading and Vision Technology
  Florida Reading and Vision Technology is a single source supplier of adaptive hardware and software solutions, representing the industry's top manufacturers.
• Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind
  State-supported boarding school for eligible hearing-impaired and visually-impaired students pre-school through 12th grade.
• fluSoft
  German vendor of hardware and software for the blind and visually impaired. Also in German.

• Foci
  Foci is a newly established Dutch company providing solutions for visually impaired people. In April 2004, Foci launched its first product the STRIX.

• Focus Newsletter
  This web site is solely for the purpose of providing information on alternative treatments and current research and studies that are available for retinal degenerative disorders.
• Fondation des Aveugles du Québec
  Association of visually impaired people in the province of Quebec, Canada. (In French)
• Fondazione Ezio Galiano
  The Ezio Galiano Foundation aims at becoming the meeting point among all Italian blind people. Its aim is the social and cultural improvement of the blind's life standards through the endless possibilities of the new technologies which may be used to overcome the limitations that blindness entails. (In Italian)
• Fondazione Robert Hollman
  The "Fondazione Robert Hollman" is working with early therapeutic intervention with regard to new born to four-year-old blind or severely visually impaired children who may or may not have additional handicaps. (Also in German and Italian)
• Force 10 Company
  Force Ten Company Ltd specialise in Sensory Loss & Hearing Loop systems, such as Text Readers, Bar Code Scanners, i.d.Mate and other products for the blind and visually impaired.
• Force Foundation
  Our aim is to provide world-wide support and guidance to libraries for print-handicapped people.
• Foresight Ski Guides
  Your guide to adventurous outdoor experiences for people who are blind or visually impaired.
• Formation et Insertion pour Deficients Visuels (FIDEV)
  The prupose is to improve the professional integration of the blind and visually impaired persons.
• Forschungsinstitut Technologie-Behindertenhilfe (FTB), Fernuniversität Hagen
  The work of FTB is committed to the needs and interests of persons with disabilities and older persons.
• Forsight Foundation
  The Forsight Foundation was established in 1978, when parents of children with deafblindness found that their sons and daughters could no longer be accommodated at The Institute for Deafblind Children at North Rocks.

• FORTEC Rehabilitation Technology, Vienna University of Technology
  Research and development of new technical solutions for disabled and elderly persons.

• Foundation Dark & Light Blind Care
  Gives financial and organisational support to organisations that are active in the field of visually impaired people and the multiple handicapped blind. Our Mission Statement is based on the Bible and on the helpful attitude that is emphasized so much in this book. (Also in Dutch)
• Fondation Ecole Romande Pour Chiens Guides d'Aveugles
  The Western Swiss Guide Dog School for the Blind has existed since October 1991. It is presently located in Brenles, canton Vaud. (Also in French and German)
• Foundation Fighting Blindness
  The Foundation Fighting Blindness is a national eye research organization that funds laboratory and clinical research at over 40 prominent institutions in the United States and foreign countries.

• Foundation Fighting Blindness - Canada
  Our mission is to promote and support research directed to finding the cause, developing a treatment and ultimately a cure, for RP and related retinal degenerations, including macular degeneration and Usher syndrome.

• Foundation for Blind Children
  A center in Arizona with services from infant program to employment services program.
• Foundation for the Employment Promotion of the Blind (FEPB)
  Foundation for the Employment Promotion of the Blind, a non-profit organization, was established in July 1993 with the purpose of training blind people for various jobs.

• Foundation for the Junior Blind
  The Foundation for the Junior Blind was established in 1953 to provide recreational services for blind children. Since our founding, the Foundation's philosophy has been to provide unique programs that will serve young people who are blind or visually impaired.

• 4Developers
  The company has developed TALKING E-MAIL, a Windows 98/95/NT4 program that notifies you when you've received an e-mail, and reads it to you.
• Frambu Centre for Rare Disorders
  Frambu is a part of Norway's answer to promoting quality of life for persons and families affected by one of approximately 40 rare, designated disorders.
• Frank Audiodata
  German producer of assistive technology for the blind and visually impaired.
• Frankfurter Stiftung für Blinde und Sehbehinderte
  Germany association offering education and rehabilitation of pepople with visual impairment. (In German)
• Fred Hollows Foundation
  The Fred Hollows Foundation works with local blindness prevention agencies in more than 29 countries to establish the mechanisms to treat and prevent avoidable blindness.
• Free(b)soft Laboratory
  Free(b)soft Laboratory in the Czeck Republic solves the problems of making computers accessible to blind and sorely visually impaired people. Our solutions are primarily based on Free Software.
• Freedom of Speech
  Freedom of Speech, Inc. is a full service provider of Assistive Computer Technology (ACT). Located in Minneapolis.

• Freedom Scientific
  In April 2000, Freedom Scientific was formed by combining three companies: Blazie Engineering, Henter-Joyce and Arkenstone.

• Freedom Scientific Benelux
  The Dutch based branch of the American company.

• Freedom Vision
  Freedom Vision is a nationwide distributor of innovative products providing visually impaired people with the Freedom to read again.
• Friends of the Blind Association
  The association is a Non profit Association founded in 1976, it aims to support and custody blind and poor eyesight children from West Bank aged 5-18 years old by provide them with the essential services such us educational and supportive methods that help them in return to gain all the knowledge and skills to be productive in this society.
• Friendship Association for the Blind
  The voice of the blind community in Jordan.
• Frontier Computing
  Distributor in Canada of access technology.
• Fundaçăo Dorina Nowill
  A Fundaçăo Dorina Nowill, além de oferecer programas de tratamento aos deficientes visuais, também proporciona o acesso ŕ cultura e informaçăo através dos serviços que presta gratuitamente para os deficientes visuais de baixa renda. (In Portuguese)
• Fundacion Arubano di Esnan Visualmente Incapacita (FAVI)
  Association of the visually impaired in Aruba, West Indies. (In Dutch)
• Fundación Braille del Uruguay
  Organization that supports the blind and visually impaired in Uruguay.
• Funka Nu
  Funka Nu is a Swedish company specializing in know-how and technology on accessible digital communication in general, and on accessible web sites specifically. (also in Swedish)
• Future Alternatives
  Future Alternatives translates normal print into braille, large print, and audio form for those who either cannot read braille or cannot see well enough to use large print.

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• Game Accessibility
  This website is part of the Game Accessibility project, a research project that focuses on the accessibility of electronic games for gamers with disabilities.
• Gamers Discussion List
  The primary goal of the list is discussing games accessible to the blind and visually impaired.
• Games for Blind Children (Fabienne Viallet)
  We are trying to create a data base of all these games that develop the tactile quality that is needed to learn Braille.
• Gateway
  Helping you to help blind and partially sighted people. Gateway is an initiative of Share The Vision and the Society of Chief Librarians in the UK.
• GDF-Grads
  The GDF-Grads website is a group effort by the alumni of the Guide Dog Foundation in Smithtown, New York. It is our belief that we can make a difference by showing not only school pride but also providing the school with ideas that will make guide dog handling easier and more productive for the next group of students.
• GDP Research
  We have developed a range of electronic mobility aids for people who are blind or who have a vision impairment.
• Geleidehondenopleiding Ans L'Abee
  Guide dog centre in the Netherlands. (In Dutch)
• Geleidehondenschool H.H. Jansen B.V.
  Dutch guide dog training centre. (In Dutch)
• German-Jordanian University
  The German-Jordanian University has resources for people working with children with vision impairment in the Arab speaking world.
• gh LLC
  Founded in 2000, gh, LLC ("gh") is a leading assistive technology company that helps people with visual disabilities access information, whether the source is a textbook, publication, standardized test, or website.
• Glasses For Missions
  Our aim is to enable literate poor, especially Christians, to obtain a useable pair of reading glasses at an affordable price.
• Glaucoma Australia
  The Glaucoma Foundation of Australia lnc. was incorporated in 1988 when a Council and officers were appointed. It is a non-profit registered charity. The Foundation's mission is to minimise visual disability from glaucoma.
• Glaucoma Foundation
  The Foundation is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to fighting glaucoma, the world's leading preventable cause of blindness.
• Glaucoma Network
  Information from the New York Glaucoma Research Institute and the Glaucoma Associates of New York.
• Glaucoma Research Foundation
  The GRF funds and stimulates research nationally and internationally.
• Glaucoom Vereninging
  Dutch association for people suffering from glaucoma. (In Dutch)
• Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network (GLADNET)
  GLADNET is an initiative of the Vocational Rehabilitation Branch of the ILO to bring together research centers, universities, enterprises, government departments, trade unions, and organizations representing disabled persons.
• Glenvale Players
  The Glenvale Players are a company of blind and low vision theatre artists offering a stunning contribution of dramatic innovative presentations to the Toronto Community theatre scene.
• GMA Games
  Games designed to be fully accessible to blind and visually impaired individuals. GMA concentrates its efforts on developing sophisticated Windows-based games, while keeping its prices affordable.
• Goalball
  Dutch goalball site. (In Dutch)

• Goalball.org
  Information about goalball. (Also in French and German)

• Goalball.co.uk
  Brtish goalball site.

• Goalball Germany
  German page about goallball.
• Good-Lite
  For over 60 years, the Good-Lite Company has been manufacturing the finest line of vision light boxes, charts and accessories.
• Goteborg University Department of Ophthalmology - OftNet
  The homepage of the Dept. of Ophthamlomogy as well as Paediatric Ophthalmology at Göteborg University in Sweden.
• Greater Detroit Agency for the Blind and Visually Impaired (GDABVI)
  Southeast Michigan's Resource Promoting Independence through Vision Rehabilitation.
• Grenzenlos
  German printing house producing materials for the blind and visually impaired. (In German)
• Groupement de Professeurs et Educateurs d'Aveugles et d'Amblyopes (GPEAA)
  The French national organization of professionals working with education of the visually impaired. (In French).
• Growing Strong
  Visual impairment is one of my stronger areas of expertise. I have lived with it for my entire life. My work on line consists of several projects. One is the site for parents of visually impaired children. Another is an email-based discussion list which I moderate called BVI-Parents. My third major project is a section of this site devoted to a specific eye condition called retinopathy ofprematurity.
• Gruppo Universitari Ciechi e Ipovedenti (GUCI)
  Italian organization for visually impaired university students. (In Italian)

• Guide Dog & Service Dogs Association of Japan
  Guide dog centre in Japan.

• Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind
  Since 1946, the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Inc. has provided guide dogs free of charge to blind people.

• Guide Dog Users of Canada
  Our organizations primary goals are to educate the general public, and advocate for Guide Dog users who run into problems with accessability, etc.

• Guide Dogs
  The UK organization Guide Dogs wants a world in which all blind and partially-sighted people enjoy the same rights, opportunities and responsibilities as everyone else.

• Guide Dogs Association of New South Wales and A.C.T.
  Provides services to visually impaired people in NSW and capital Canberra, Australia.

• Guide Dogs Queensland
  Guide Dogs Queensland provides services to blind and vision impaired Queenslanders free of charge.
• Guide Dogs of America
  Guide dog center in California.
• Guide Dogs of the Desert
  Guide Dogs of the Desert was founded in 1972 by Mr. Lafayette "Bud" Maynard to provide quality guide dogs to the blind and the multi handicapped blind. GDOD is today a public nonprofit corporation located in Palm Springs, California.
• Guide Dogs SA.NT
  Guide Dogs SA.NT provide quality, integrated services for people with a sensory loss throughout South Australia and Northern Territory.
• Guide Horse Foundation
  Our mission is to provide a safe, cost-effective and reliable mobility alternative for visually impaired people and to deliver trained Guide Horses at no cost to the recipient. We also have the goal of helping the tiny horses by providing them with a higher-purpose in life.
• GuideCan (University of Michigan)
  About an ultrasonic sensor-based obstacle detector developed at the University of Michigan.
• Guiding Eyes for the Blind
  Guide Dog provider located in New York.
• Guideline
  Manufacturer of the obstacle detector Hand Guide.
• Guild for the Blind
  The Guild for the Blind, based in Chicago, serves children and adults who are blind or visually impaired including those with new vision loss, each with unique needs.
• Gustafsson, Jorgen, Optometrist, Low Vision Specialist
  Here you can read a presentation of some things I have worked with the last years. Read about the Low Vision Centre in Jönköping, Sweden.
• Gymnazium a OA Pro ZPM
  School for the visually impaired in the Czeck Republik. (in Czeck)
• GW Micro
  Distributor of software and hardware solutions for the visually impaired.

H

• Hadley School for the Blind
  The Hadley School for the Blind offers over 90 distance education courses to eligible students completely free of charge.

• Hagger Electronics
  British vendor of equipment for the hearing and visually impaired.
• Handicapé Visuel Formation Emploi (HVFE)
  Belgian support for visually impaired computer users. (In French)
• Hampshire Association for the Care of the Blind
  Hampshire Association for the Care of the Blind, (HACB), have been providing care and support using volunteers and a few staff, to the visually impaired and blind people in Hampshire (UK) for over 77 years.
• HANDI-HAM
  The Courage HANDI-HAM System supports persons with disabilities to get involved in Amateur Radio.
• Handy Tech
  We provide handy technologie for the blind and visually impaired.
• Harders Homepage: Mobilität
  About Orientation & Mobility. (In German)
• Harpo
  Polish company active in R&D for the blind and distributor of assistive devices. Has developed a Polish speech synthesizer (Kubus) and reading machine (Auto-Lektor). (In Polish)
• Hawaii Association of the Blind
  Welcome to the home page of the Hawaii Association of the Blind. We are the State affiliate of the American Council of the Blind.

• Hawaii Center for the Deaf and the Blind
  It is the purpose of the Center to provide and promote strong educational programs and services for students who are deaf, heard-of hearing, blind, partially-sighted, or deaf-blind, including students listed above with multiple disabilities.

• Hear a Book Service
  Hear a Book Service is a non - profit organisation serving people with Print Disabilities throughout Australia and New Zealand.
• Helen Keller International
  Helen Keller International works to assist organizations and institutions abroad.
• Hedo
  German company developing assistive technology for the visually impaired. (In German)
• Helen Keller Blind Massage Center of Beijing
  The Helen Keller Blind Massage Center of Beijing is a new non-profit, social services organization which provides medical services for the blind community.
• Helen Keller Services for the Blind
  HKSB is a non-profit agency with a spectrum of special services that guide legally blind New Yorkers from preschool children to the elderly.
• Helenic Society of Retina
  The Greek RP association.
• Helping Hands for the Blind
  Helping hands for the blind is a non-profit organization whose goal is to promote social, economic and educational opportunities for the blind.
• Hephaestus Project
  The Hephaestus Project endeavors to develop technologies which reinforce and extend the capabilities of persons with impaired faculties. Includes software projects ABsayD, a simple program to help the blind learn typing/keyboarding skills, and Ronolog, a program to help the blind chat over the Internet with standard tools.
• Hermann-Herzog-Schule Frankfurt
  Special school for the visually impaired in Frankfurt, Germany. (In German)
• Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network
  Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome (HPS) is a genetic metabolic disorder which causes albinism, visual impairment, a platelet dysfunction with prolonged bleeding, and progressive symptoms including pulmonary fibrosis, inflammatory bowel disease and kidney disease.
• Het Tast2 project
  Dutch project producing restuarant menues in braille. (In Dutch)
• Hidden Gifts Braille
  Hidden Gifts Braille transcription service is a self-run home-based business run by Maureen Pranghofer in Minnesota.
• Hildesheimer Blindenmission (HBM)
  Christian organization supporting schools and education of the visually impaired in Asia since 1890. (In German)

• Hokkaido Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
  Guide dog centre in Hokkaido. (In Japanese)

• Hokkei Industry
  Japanese company manufacturing an English speak color sensor. (In Japanese)

• Hong Kong Blind Union
  A Hong Kong self-help organization formed and run by visually impaired people.

• Hong Kong Society for the Blind
  HKSB is a government subvented voluntary agency dedicated to the well-being of the visually impaired people in Hong Kong.
• Huei Ming School and Home for Blind Children
  Christian private school in Taiwan. (In Chinese)
• Hugo Simberg's On-line Exihibition
  The See, Hear, Imagine online exhibition presents the symbolistic world of the Finnish artist Hugo Simberg (b.1873, d. 1917) through six of his works. The works are presented through detailed descriptions of the pictures and by analyses of their background and themes.

• Human Anatomy Online
  Study the anatomy of the human body. It's fun, interactive and an ideal reference site for students or who just want to know more about the medical descriptions used by doctors and nurses.

• Human Information Management Service (HIMS)
  Braille SENSE is assistive technology device that is designed to enable visually impaired people in accessing written materials (Translation of text to Braille and Braille to text).

• HumanITy
  HumanITy, the world's first digital charity, was founded to investigate and tackle social exclusion problems raised by the information technology revolution.
• HumanWare
  Specializes in assistive technology for persons who are print impaired due to blindness, low vision, or learning and/or reading disabilities.
• Humboldt Council of the Blind
  The Council is a consumer based group of blind and sighted people. The purpose of the Council is to expand the economic opportunities, stimulate employment and promote the general welfare of visually impaired people in Humboldt County, California.
• Huseby National Resource Centre of Visually Impaired
  The primary task for this Norwegian Resource Centres is to disseminate knowledge of visual impairment applied to the principles of inclusive education. Skills and methodology linked to training of compensatory techniques are provided to teachers in the local schools.

I

• I Can Work This Thing.com
  This website was created to house: cheat sheets, quick guides and sometimes entire manuals for all kinds of devices that a blind or visually handicapped person might want to learn to operate.
• i-Map
  i-Map is an online art resource designed for visually impaired people with a general interest in art, art teachers and their visually impaired pupils. It incorporates text, audio, image enhancement and deconstruction, animation and raised images.
• IBM Accessibility Center
  Here you may find the answer how a PC can be accessible by a person with a disability.
• Ich weiss wo Ich bin
  nformation about a book by Elke Zollitsch with drawings of blind children and how they see the world. (In German)
• ICT Help for people who are Blind or Visually Impaired
  Andy Spongs lives and works in the UK. He teaches a range of ICT courses and write Jaws Keystroke and Windows Keyboard Shortcut Tutorials.
• Idaho Commission For The Blind And Visually Impaired
  Our mission is to empower persons who are blind or visually impaired by providing vocational rehabilitation training, skills training and educational opportunities to achieve self-fulfillment through quality employment and independent living.
• IFDS World Blind Sailing Championship 2009
  The Bay of Plenty Trailer Yacht Squadron in association with Blind Sailing New Zealand presents the 2009 IFDS World Blind Sailing Championship.

• Illinois School for the Visually Impaired
  The Illinois School for the Visually Impaired is a residential/day school for blind and visually impaired students. The school provides educational and related services for children who are blind or visually impaired from elementary through extended high school.

• Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness
  The ISPB was founded in 1916 to prevent the tragedy of needless blindness. Dedicated to the care, protection, and preservation of sight, ISPB programs stress education and information.

• Immersion Corporation
  Developer of the 'TouchSense' tactile computer mouse.

• ImPAct MDVI Project
  The objective of the ImPact MDVI project is to develop a holistic teaching approach for teachers working with children with Multiple Disabilities and a Visual Impairment (MDVI).

• In the Blink of an Eye
  This site is dedicated to those with a visual disability. If you suffer from Ocular Histoplasmosis as I do, let me know. I am trying to start a network for folks afflicted with Histo.
• Independence for the Blind of West Florida
  Organization serving persons who are blind or visually impaired in a ten county area in Northwest Florida.
• Independent Living Aids
  Independent Living Aids is the oldest privately-held mail-order company in the United States of products for individuals who are blind or visually impaired.
• Index Braille
  The homepage of the Swedish producer of Index braille embossers, located closer to the North Pole than any other company.

• Index Braille Asia
  Index Braille Asia is focused on distribution, service and support for Index Braille products in East Asia and South Pacific.

• Indiana School for the Blind
  The School offers pre-school through high school programs, free of charge on a residential or day school basis, to the young people of Indiana who are blind and visually impaired. Outreach Services are also available to school districts to assist them in meeting the needs of locally enrolled students who are blind and visually impaired.

• Individual Computer Applications (ICAP)
  Started in October 1999 providing tools and adaptations for all kind of handicap. We are new as a company but has together more than 25 years of experience of making special working sites for disabled. We are situated in the center of Goteborg, Sweden.

• InfoEyes
  InfoEyes is a virtual reference and information community for the visually impaired. You can ask questions via email or ask a librarian in real time via chat. The service is provided by a group of talking book libraries.

• Information Centre for Aquired Deafblindness
  The general aim of the Information Center for Acquired Deafblindness is to collect, adapt and develop the latest research findings on acquired deafblindness.
• Informationspool Computerhilfsmittel für Blinde und Sehbehinderte (INCOBS)
  Information on different technology solutions for people with visual impairment.
• Infosite over/voor blinden en slechtzienden
  A huge site with information on visual impairment (In Flemish).
• Infosystem Produktion & Distribution (IPD)
  German distributor of assistive technology for the blind and visually impaired. (In German)
• Ingenieurbüro Dr. Seveke
  Since 1990 we have worked as electronic engineers in the field of computer aids for handicapped persons. We design and assemble complete workstations for physical, visual or mental disableds and for the blinds. Moreover, we produce special aids for computer access such as microkeyboards, braille keyboards, mouse simulators and other input units.
• Innovations
  Portable electronic magnifier for people with low vision.
• Innovative Rehabilitation Technology (IRTI)
  In business since 1979, IRTI has been providing everyday useful products as well as high tech innovations for the blind. visually impaired, individuals with dyslexia and learning disabilities.
• Insight for the Blind
  Insight for the Blind was founded in 1975. From a single booth recording facility we have grown to become the largest of only three volunteer recording studios in the United States. Our permanent headquarters are located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
• Insight Radio
  Insight Radio is the new name for Europe's first radio station dedicated to the blind and partially sighted community.
• Institution of Professional Rehabilitation (REHACOMP)
  "REHACOMP" was established by the All-Russian Association for the Blind (VOS) on the basis of the Main Center of computer technologies and the Institute of raising the level of VOS specialists' skill. It was created for the organization a multiple-discipline work with visually impaired people.
• Institut d'Education Sensorielle Jeunes Aveugles (IDES)
  Special school for visually impaired children and young people aged 4 to 21 years in Paris, France. (In French)
• Institut für Hör- und Sehbildung Linz
  The special schoold for the Deaf and Blind in Linz. (In German)
• Institut Integriert Studieren
  Support centre for students with disabilities at the Johannas Kepler University in Linz, Austria. (In German)
• Institut Montéclair
  Special school for visually impaired students in Angers, France. (In French)

• Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (INJA)
  INJA (French National Institute for Blind Children) which operates under the authority of the Ministry for Employment and Solidarity is a National Public Establishment of Curricular and Special Education for the blind and partially sighted. INJA has both day school and week-time boarding facilities for blind and partially sighted students from the beginning of primary school to the end of secondary school, either through in-house instruction or by integrating them into mainstream education.

• Institut National Supérieur de Formation et de Recherche pour les Jeunes Handicapés et les Enseignements adaptés (INS HEA)
  French training and research centre involved in training teachers for visually impaired students in mainstream schools. (In French).

• Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille
  A rehabilitation center in Quebec. (In French)

• Institute for Blind and Visually Impaired People in Luxembourg
  The Institute for visually impaires people (Institut pour deficients Visuels - IDV), a state institution, has been created in 1975 in order to replace the work of the Institute for the blind of Berbourg.

• Institute for Design and Disability in Ireland
  Whether you are a designer, a person with a disability or anyone else, we hope you will find a great deal of what you need in these pages.

• Institute for Innovative Blind Navigation
  The mission of the Institute for Innovative Blind Navigation is to become a global center for the study, promotion, and development of sophisticated wayfinding technologies that have the potential for improving the efficiency and safety of travel for blind individuals.

• Institute for Rehabilitation Research (iRV)
  iRv was founded in 1982 to serve as a centre for rehabilitation studies in the Netherlands. The centre is located near Maastricht. iRv has two core activities: applied research and dissemination of information.

• Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted
  The Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted is a Danish institution serving the visually impaired from high school level and upwards in age.
• Institute for the Blind of Taiwan
  Information only in Chinese.
• Institute of Daisy Editing - Hinagiku
  Only in Japanese.
• Instituto para Niños Ciegos y Sordos de Cali
  School in Cali, Colombia, founded in 1940 by Luisita Sanchez for children with visual and hearing impairment. (In Spanish).
• Instituto de Cegos da Bahia
  O Instituto de Cegos da Bahia trabalha formado e integrando o portador de deficenca visual a sociedade. (In Portuguese)
• Instituto de Cegos Padre Chico
  Special school for visually impaired students, located in Ipiranga, SP. (In Portuguese)
• Instituto dei ciechi Francesco Cavazza
  An organization in Bologna, Italy, working for the visually impaired. (In Italian)
• Instituto Nacional Para Ciegos (INCP)
  The organization for the blind and visually impaired in Colombia. (In Spanish)
• Integra
  Belgian distributor of assistive technology for the visually imapired. (In Flemish).
• Integrationskinder
  German site for parents to children having special needs. (In German)
• Interfaces Non Visuelles et Accessibilité (INOVA)
  Research group at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Institut National de la Santé et de la Reserche Médicale - INSERM) working with software development and technology for the visually impaired. (Mainly in French).
• International Academy of Sports for Disabled (IAS)
  IAS teaches you the sport you like up to an international certified level. Contains a page on ballsports for the visually impaired.
• International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)
  IAPB was established in 1975 as a coordinating, umbrella organisation to lead an international effort in mobilising resources for blindness prevention activities.
• International Albinism Center
  International Albinism Center at the University of Minnesota is a team of dedicated research professionals interested in understanding the basis of albinism in humans.
• International Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired Chess Players
  In April 1958 representatives of Great Britain, Sweden, Denmark, France, GDR (East Germany), Austria and the host country met at Rheinbreitbach (near Bonn). After this meeting, the I.B.C.A. was founded.
• International Association of Assistance Dog Partners
  A non-profit, cross-disability organization representing people partnered with guide, hearing and service dogs.
• International Blind Golf Association (IBGA)
  The International Blind Golf Association (IBGA) is a relatively new association. Two years of preliminary organizational work prceeded the first official gathering of the IBGA representatives in September 1998.

• International Blind Sport Federation (IBSA)
  Since IBSA was founded in Paris in 1981, we have been in a constant process of evolution to adapt to the ever-changing world of sports for the blind. IBSA is represented in all five continents and has more than one hundred member countries. IBSA is a full member of the International Paralympic Committee.

• International Braille Research Center (IBRC)
  The primary purpose of this web site is to provide a place where people can find a collection of scholarly papers related to braille.

• International Centre for Eyecare Education (ICEE)
  Our mission is to eliminate avoidable blindness and vision impairment, particularly that due to uncorrected refractive error.

• International Children's Anophthalmia Network (ICAN)
  ICAN is a parent support group for families with a child with anophthalmia or microphthalmia.
• International Commission on Technology & Accessibility (ICTA)
  The International Commission on Technology & Accessibility (ICTA) initiates, facilitates and provides information regarding technology and accessibility through the World Wide Web. This information is available to people with disabilities, advocates and professionals in the field of disability, researchers, legislative bodies, and the general community.

• International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI)
  ICEVI which was formerly known as ICEVH, is a professional non-governmental organization that welcomes any group or person who wishes to support its aims.

• International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment, Europe (ICEVI Europe)
  The European section of the i nternational association for education of people with visual impairment.

• International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI) Pacific
  The Pacific region of International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment.

• International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP
  ICCHP conferences focus on all aspects of information, communication and assistive technology for people with disabilities and elderly people.
• International Council on English Braille (ICEB)
  The purpose of ICEB is to coordinate and improve standards for braille usage for all English-speaking users of braille.
• International Directory of Libraries for the Blind
  This database provides information about libraries for the blind through the world maintained by the Japanese Society for the Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (JSRPD) on behalf of the IFLA Section of Libraries for the Blind.
• International Camp on Communication and Computers (ICC)
  The ICC camp give students an opportunity to learn about modern information technology, accessibility and special equipment for visually impaired people.
• International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO)
  The ICO works with ophthalmologic societies, ophthalmologists and others to enhance ophthalmic education and the provision of eye care in order to preserve and protect vision for all people worldwide.
• International Disability Alliance (IDA)
  IDA was formed in 1999 with the aim of being a spokesperson for the international disability movement in global policy matters and of facilitating co-operation and exchanges of information between the international disability organisations, primarily in relation to multilateral organisations.
• International Eye Foundation
  The IEF works both nationally with Ministries of Health to develop prevention of blindness programs and policies, and locally, providing grass roots support to the local organizations, volunteers and communities.

• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
  The organization has a section of Libraries for the Blind with an own newsletter.

• International Foundation for Optic Nerve Disease (IFOND)
  IFOND is dedicated to the promotion of research into the causes, prevention, and treatment of optic nerve disease, and to the dissemination of information about optic nerve disease.

• International Glaucoma Association
  IGA offers advice and support to glaucoma sufferers, campaigns for improved glaucoma services for glaucoma patients and greater public awareness of glaucoma. It also funds clinical research.
• International Paralympic Committee
  The Official Website of the International Paralympic Committee.
• International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC)
  ISAAC is an organization devoted to advancing the field of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Formed in 1983, ISAAC now has over 2,500 members in more than 50 countries.
• International Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation (ISLRR)
  The objectives of the ISLRR aqre to stimulate scientific research in the field of low vision and in the field of rehabilitation of people with low vision, and to promote the exchange of information in these fields.
• International Trachoma Initiative (ITI)
  Pfizer Inc and The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation have together established the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI), dedicated to eliminating blindness from trachoma, the world's leading cause of preventable blindness.
• International United
  Visual aids Center in Taiwan.
• Interessengemeinschaft sehgeschädigter Computerbenutzer (ISCB)
  German assiciation for blind and visually impaired computer users. (In German)
• InTouch Graphics
  INTOUCH GRAPHICS is a design company that specializes in creating quality, customized tactile maps that meet the needs of the visually impaired, blind, and mobility impaired, as well as those with normal vision.
• Iowa Braille School
  The Iowa Braille School has a rich heritage that we are eager to share with you! Founded in 1852, we are Iowa's second oldest education institution.
• Iowa Department for the Blind
  This web site is part of the Department's commitment to providing information and services to Iowans who are blind.
• Iris Group
  The Iris Group, owned by the Swedish Association of the Visually Impaired, is comprised of seven wholly-owned subsidiaries and three special-interest companies.
• Irish Blind Sports
  Founded in 1989, Irish Blind Sports caters for the competitive and recreational needs of its members, who participate at all levels from have a go days to elite Paralympic competition.

• Iris Fund for Prevention of Blindness
  The Iris Fund for Prevention of Blindness is a charity that funds research, within the United Kingdom, into the causes, prevention, treatment and cure of eye disease.

• Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind
  We are the only organisation in the Republic of Ireland that provides guide dogs as mobility for the blind.
• Iris Network
  The Iris Network, Maine's leading independent resource for blind and visually impaired individuals is the gateway to an active, successful and fulfilling life for individuals with vision loss.
• Isis
  The aim of the project ISIS is the development of qualifying possibilities for the blind in the field of information technologies (IT) according to European standards. (also in German)
• Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind
  The Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind began operations on January 1, 1991 with just one objective -- to help blind people in Israel to achieve independence and mobility through the use of guide dogs.
• ITAC Consulting
  ITAC Consulting is a private company incorporated in Kenya. From the beginning, ITAC has concentrated on the supply and provision of adaptive technologies for visually impaired persons.
• ItactI Project
  The aim of the ItactI project is to develop a novel interactive display that will facilitate access for visually impaired people to the modern Information Technology (IT) world. Graphical user interfaces for PC's and almost all types of modern communication are now widely used. (Also in German and Italian)