International

• Acapela Group
  Following the merger in January 2004 of Europe's major speech players Babel Technologies, Elan Speech and Babel Infovox, the newly formed company has now unveiled its corporate name, Acapela Group.
• Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA)
  AIA brings companies together to collaborate on the design and delivery of solutions to long-standing Accessible Technology/Information Technology (AT/IT) interoperability challenges.
• African Union of the Blind
  AFUB is an umbrella organisation comprising of organisations of and for the Blind in Africa. Founded in 1987, it has the sole purpose of ensuring access and expansion of quality services for all blind and partially sighted persons in the Continent.
• Albinism World Alliance (AWA)
  AWA is a network of albinism support groups in various countries. The AWA was founded in 1992 by representatives from Australia, Canada, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The AWA has grown to include albinism support groups in Germany, Mali, Malawi, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Norway, and South Africa, and other countries.
• AMD Alliance International
  The AMD Alliance International is a nonprofit alliance of vision and seniors organizations working to raise the awareness level of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and an understanding of available options for treatment, rehabilitation and support services.
• Aniridia Network
  The Aniridia Network International was set up in October 1998 to provide support and advice to people and families affected by aniridia across the world.

• Art Beyond Sight
  Art Beyond Sight Across the World is an international collaborative of community-based groups and local affiliates of national agencies, museums and other arts-related organizations, elementary and high schools, colleges and universities, national and international advocacy groups, and blind, visually impaired, and sighted art enthusiasts.

• Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE)
  Members of AAATE are persons dedicated to the mission of the association: "to stimulate the advancement of assistive technology for the benefit of persons with disabilities including the elderly people."
• Blind Sailing International
  Blind Sailing International is the governing body for competitive international sailing for persons who are blind or visually impaired.
• BrailleRoaders
  We are an international online network of past, current and future braillists, braille transcribers and anyone else supporting, encouraging or advocating for associated volunteer and career fields.
• Braille Without Borders (BWB)
  BWW is a small international development organisation which aims to create training programs and Braille book printing houses for blind and visual impaired people.
• CBM International
  CBM International (CBMI) is an independent aid organization of Christians of various denominations, dedicated to helping blind and other disabled people in "Third World" countries, irrespective of nationality, race, sex or religion. The work focuses on healing and preventing blindness as well as on the education and vocational training of blind people and their integration into society.
• Cognitive Aid System for Blind People (CASBLIP)
  The main aim of this project is to develop a system capable of interpreting and managing real world information from different sources to assist blind or visually impaired users.
• Computer graphics access for blind people through a haptic virtual environment (GRAB)
  GRAB is a European project which aims to enable blind persons to have access on the three-dimensional computer world through the sense of touch and through audio facilities.
• 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.
• Deafblind International
  DbI is the world association promoting services for deafblind people.
• 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.
• e-Inclusion
  The European Commission adopts the Communication "European i2010 initiative on e-Inclusion - to be part of the information society.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• Gamers Discussion List
  The primary goal of the list is discussing games accessible to the blind and visually impaired.
• 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.
• Goalball.org
  Information about goalball. (Also in French and German)
• 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).
• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
  The organization has a section of Libraries for the Blind with an own newsletter http://www.ifla.org/VII/s31/index.htm
• 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.
• 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)
• Low Vision in Early Intervention
  An European project on interdisciplinary collaboration in early Intervention with multiply-disabled, blind and viusally impaired children.
• Miracle
  The basic idea behind the MIRACLE project is that blind musicians around the world need Braille music. Music is sufficiently international to cross borders. Braille music is very expensive to produce, therefore anything that will reduce the amount of duplication is to be desired. It makes sense then to set up a system in which all music braille libraries can know what the other libraries have in stock and are producing.

• Multimodal Collaboration Environment for Inclusion of Visually Impaired Children (MICOLE)
  The MICOLE project is aimed at developing a system that supports collaboration, data exploration, communication and creativity of visually impaired and sighted children. In addition to the immediate value as an assistive tool the system will have societal implications through improved inclusion of the visually disabled in education, work, and society in general.

• Museum of Pure Form
  The Museum of Pure Form is a Virtual Gallery with digitized sculptures from European and worldwide museums, where the visitor can interact, through the senses of touch and sight, with 3D art forms and sculptures.
• MDVI Euronet
  MDVI Euronet is a group of professionals dedicated to developing knowledge, understanding and best practice in the education of children and young people with Multiple Disabilities and a Visual Impairment (MDVI), regardless of educational placement.
• Nordically
  Nordically is the portal that functions as an intermediary for Nordic experiences within welfare. The portal provides information and news about health, social welfare and well-being, work- and education related issues in the Nordic countries.
• Optimization of a Visual Implantable Prosthesis (OPTIVIP)
  The Optivip project aims at realising the second generation of a visual prosthesis prototype for blind people.
• orthoPoint
  Site addressing people with disabilities and independent living. From here you can subscribe to discussion list like "late blind" and "blind deaf wheel chair users".
• Proviptrain Project
  The major purpose of the project is to provide a better qualification in the visual impairment field to the professionals directly working or about to work with the visually impaired.
• PCS Games
  Over the past ten years, we have Created and distributed thirtytwo computer games for the blind and visually impaired.
• Play2
  Play is a musical software for blind musicians. The project will help overcome the blind musicians’ most frequent difficulties such as using either Pcs or certain writing programs, and the limited amount of available musical texts and satisfy their need for more autonomy. (Also in Italian)
• Pro-Guide
  EU funded project devoted to the improvement for visually impaired sound engineers, musicians and producers.
• Rehabilitation International
  Rehabilitation International is a federation of national and international organizations and agencies working for the prevention of disability, the rehabilitation of people with disabilities and the equalization of opportunities within society on behalf of persons with disabilities and their families throughout the world.
• Retina International
  The International Retinitis Pigmentosa Association (IRPA) is a voluntary charitable umbrella association of 34 national societies each of which is formed by people with Retinitis pigmentosa (RP), Usher Syndrome, Macular Degeneration and allied retinal dystrophies, their families and friends.
• Seva Foundation Sight Program
  For two decades, Seva has played a vital role in international efforts to reduce avoidable blindness around the globe. Seva's sight program team develops and disseminates effective methods to restore sight to cataract-blind people, and to build comprehensive, sustainable blindness prevention programs.
• Software and Tools Improving the Screen (SATIS)
  Collection of software and advices for the use of computers by people with visual impairments. The collection contains public domain or shareware software and hints for customizing important programs.
• Sonokids
  Sonokids.com is a site, which is totally accessible without the use of a mouse. It includes games and remixers which can be played by blind and visually impaired children. Also our chat can be used with screenreaders. All games and remixers can of course be played by seeing children as well. (Also in Dutch and Danish)
• Support-EAM
  The objective of Support-EAM (Supporting the creation of a e-Accessibility Quality Mark) is to create an e-Accessibility Quality Mark for Web services, as part of the Action Plan eEurope 2005: An information society for all.
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• Tactile Interactive Multimedia Computer Games for Visually Impaired Children (TIM)
  The aim of the TIM project is to provide young visually impaired children with multimedia computer games they can access independently. The project is developing an authoring that will enable the design of computer games based on existing resource, and that can be used with various interfaces.
• TIM Games
  TiM, Tactile Interactive Multimedia computer games for visually impaired children, is a Research Project funded by the European Commission .The overall aim of the project is to provide young visually impaired children with multimedia computer games they can access independently without the assistance of a sighted person.
• TACTUS
  The European Tactus Award was set up to stimulate the design and production of tactile books for young blind and partially-sighted children. (Also in French and other languages)
• Union Latinoamericana de Ciegos
  The umbrella for organ izations of the blind in Latin America. (In Spanish)
• Unite For Sight
  Unite For Sight is a non-profit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. Local and visiting volunteers work with partner eye clinics to provide eye care in communities without previous access.
• United Nations Econimic & Social Development - Disabled Persons
  Links to UN programme sites with disability relevant information.
• Very Special Art
  Founded in 1974 by Jean Kennedy Smith as an affiliate of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, VSA is an International organization that creates learning opportunities through the arts for people with disabilities.
• Virtual Environment for the Training of Visually Impaired (ENORASI)
  The ENORASI project aims at developing a highly interactive and extensible haptic virtual reality (VR) system that will allow visually impaired people, especially those blind from birth, to study and interact with various virtual objects.
• Vision 2002
  Abstracts of the papers presented at the International Low Vision Coference held in Göteborg, Sweden, in 2002, are found on the website of the International Society of Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation (ISLRR).
• Vision 2020
  Vision 2020 - The Right to Sight is an initiative to help eliminate needless blindness by the year 2020, jointly launched by the World Health Organisation together with more than 20 international non-governmental organisations involved in eye care and prevention and management of blindness.
• World Blind Union (WBU)
  WBU has member organisations in virtually every country of the world.
• World Council of Optometry (WCO)
  WCO is an international organization dedicated to the enhancement and development of eye and vision care worldwide. Representing over 50 countries, WCO serves as a forum for member organizations to respond to public health needs and opportunities around the world.
• World Federation of the Deafblind
  The web site of the World Federation of the Deafblind.
• World Health Organization (WHO)
  WHO, established on 7 April 1948, is the United Nations specialized agency for health.

Ireland

• Ash Technologies
  Manufacturer and distributor of low-cost, no compromise products for the Visually Impaired.
• BLIND-DEV Home page
  The purpose of BLIND-DEV is to serve as a catalyst which will both spur and speed the development of software which will enable the blind user to use emerging technologies, platforms, operating systems, and applications as they are developed, so that access is built-in, rather than retrofitted.
• Braille Chess Association of Ireland
  The Braille Chess Association of Ireland was established in 1985 to promote Chess among the blind and partially sighted.
• CBM Ireland
  The Irish site of the international Christian development organisation whose primary purpose is to improve the quality of life of the world's poorest persons with disabilities and those at risk of disability, who live in the most disadvantaged societies.
• 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.
• Fighting Blindness Ireland
  Fighting Blindness is a self-help voluntary organisation which promotes research into Retinal Degenerative Diseases . Over 60,000 people in this country suffer from these conditions and research initiated by the Irish Fighting Blindness Society has been responsible for a number of major breakthroughs of world wide significance.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• Jackson Technology
  We are a leading supplier of assistive technology in Ireland specialising in computer and print access.
• National Association of Housing for Visually Impaired (NAHVI)
  NAHVI is a charity providing housing within the community for blind, or visually impaired young adults some of whom have additional learning or physical disabilities.
• National Council for the Blind of Ireland
  The National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI) is a not for profit, voluntary organisation offering a service nation-wide to persons experiencing problems with their eye-sight.
• PAM-AID Personal Adaptive Mobility AID for The Frail Visually Impaired
  The PAM-AID project has been running in the Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin since1994. It aim is to develop a mobility aid for people who are both frail and visually impaired.
• St Joseph's School for the Visually Impaired
  Since 1884 St. Joseph's has been a centre of education and learning for people with a visual impairment. It is located in Dublin. The organisation provides specialised primary education, an integrated secondary education, pre-school services, support services for families of children with a visual impairment, vocational training, as well as braille, audio and large print production facilities.
• Touchart.com
  From meeting artists with a visual impairment and teachers I have come to realise that there are many individuals and groups around the world who work in isolation, even within their own country.

Israel

• Association of the Blind in Israel Assisted by Guide Dogs
  The Association of the Blind in Israel assisted by Guide Dogs was founded in 1953 by a group of blind people, headed by Mrs. Tamar Perkins.
• Center for the Blind
  Resource center for visually impaired students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Center for the Blind in Israel
  Founded over 30 years ago as the roof organization responsible for all the groups working for the blind and visually impaired throughout the State of Israel.
• Central Library for the Blind in Israel
  The Central Library for the Blind, the Visually Impaired and the Handicapped produces and lends out books and periodicals in Braille, on cassettes and in large print.
• 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.
• Migdalor
  Migdalor provides a variety of occupational and employment rehabilitation services.These services are meant for people, who are blind, visually impaired and/or suffer certain physical or mental disabilities, as well as social or developmental handicaps.
• Ofek Liyladenu
  "Ofek Liyladenu" - Our Children's Horizon, is a newly established (1996) non profit association of parents of visually impaired and blind children in Israel.
• Vipgamezone
  From our site you can download free games and demo versions of programs for blinds and visually impaired people. You can play our games without special software and hardware.
• Voice Diary
  Voice Diary in Israel is the manufacturer of the first electronic organizer designed for people who prefer voice to text.

Italy

• Association for the Development of Information Technology Systems (ASPHI)
  A.S.P.H.I. is an italian non-profit association of businesses and groups cooperating in the following "Mission" : "Promote the integration of people with disabilities in schools, in employment and in society through the use of Information and Communication Technology".
• Associazione Italiana Ciechi di Guerra
  An Italian organization for people who lost their sight in war. (In Italian)
• Associazione Nazionale Istruttori di Orientamento Mobilità e Autonomia Personale
  Italian association of instructors of OM (Mobility Orientation) and instructors of AP (Personal Autonomy) for visual disabilities.
• Associazione Nazionale Subvedenti (ANS)
  The association supports families, teachers, educators and social operators, providing information and advice on different ranges of problems related to visual disability. (In Italian)

• Bat Vision
  Italian distributor of assistive technology for the visually impaired.

• Biblioteca Italiana per i Ciechi "Regina Margherita"
  The Italian library for the blind and visually impaired. (In Italian)

• CBM Itala
  The Italian site of the international Christian development organisation whose primary purpose is to improve the quality of life of the world,s poorest persons with disabilities and those at risk of disability, who live in the most disadvantaged societies. (In Italian)

• Federazione Italiana Associazioni Retinite Pigmentosa (FIARP)
  Italian association for people with Retinitis Pigmentosa. (In Italian)
• 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)
• Gruppo Universitari Ciechi e Ipovedenti (GUCI)
  Italian organization for visually impaired university students. (In Italian)
• Instituto dei ciechi Francesco Cavazza
  An organization in Bologna, Italy, working for the visually impaired. (In Italian)
• Lega del Filo d'Oro
  The Lega del Filo d'Oro is an Italian recognised non-profit making social services organisation. It provides assistance, rehabilitation, education and re-integration into society for people who are deafblind and have multisensory deficits.

• Scuola Nazionale Cani Guida per Ciechi
  Italian guide dog training centre. (In Italian)

• Servizio Nazionale Cani Guida
  Italian guide dog centre. (In Italian)
• Stamperia Braille
  The Stamperia of Florence is unique as the only public-owned Braille press in Italy. It is the property of the Tuscan Regional government.
• Subvision
  Italian distributor of assistive tecknology for the blind and visually impaired. (In Italian)

• Technoing
  Italian distributor of assistive technology for the visually impaired. (in Italian)

• Tiflosystem
  Italian vendor of technical aids for the visually impaired. (In Italian)
• Unione Italiana Ciechi
  The Italian national organization of the blind and visually impaired.

• Voice Systems
  An Italian distributor of assistive technology, based in Milano. (In Italian)

Japan

• Chubu Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
  The Chubu Guide Dog Association is a foundation which started in 1970 in Nagoya, to successfully operate the comprehensive guide dog training center.
• Disabilities Information Resources
  Information resource operated by Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (JSRPD).

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

• Eye Mate
  Guide dog training centre in Japan.

• 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)

• Institute of Daisy Editing - Hinagiku
  Only in Japanese.

• Japan Blind Sailing Association
  Oraganization for blind sailing in Japan. (in Japanese)

• Japan Braille Library
  Only in Japanese.
• Japanese Blind Golf Association
  Japanese organization for blind golf players. (In Japanese)
• Kansai Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
  Japanese guide dog center. (In Japanese)
• KGS Corporation
  Japanese producer of braille cells to be used in refresable braille displays.
• National Institute of Special Education (NISE)
  NISE was founded in October 1971 as the central research and teaching facility for special education in Japan.
• Nippon Lighthouse Welfare Center for the Blind
  The misson of Nippon LIghthouse is partnership for independent living and social participation with visual handicapped.
• Otari
  Japanese company specialised in manufacturing equipment for the conversion of audio into digital files.
• Plextor
  Producer of PLEXTALK - a player for digital talking books based on the Daisy standards.
• Tomoe Sorban Co
  Soroban is the name given to the traditional Japanese abacus, or calculating frame, which is increasingly being seen as a valuable mathematical tool for a technological age.
• Vision Impairments' Resource Network (VIRN)
  Japanese site with information on visual impairment. (In Japanese)

Jordan

• Friendship Association for the Blind
  The voice of the blind community in Jordan.
• German-Jordanian University
  The German-Jordanian University has resources for people working with children with vision impairment in the Arab speaking world.

Kenya

• 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.

• Kenya Society for the Blind (KSB)
  KSB is a National Organization charged with the responsibility of serving all citizens of Kenya who are visually impaired or are at a risk of going blind.

Korea

• 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).
• Korea Blind Union
  Association for the blind and visually impaired of Kore. (In Korean)
• Korea Braille Library
  Library for the blind founded in 1968.

Latvia

• Latvian Society of the Blind (LSB)
  More than 7000 residents of Latvia are registered as people with severe visual impairment. Majority of them is united by Latvian Society of the Blind (LSB), which is the only nongovernmental organization of people with visual impairments in Latvia. Latvian Society of the Blind was founded in 1926.
• LSB Strazdumuizha Organization
  A kind of an umberella site with links to several sources of information about services for the visually impaired in Latvia.

Lebanon

• Benevolent Lebanese Evangelical School for Special Education and Development
  Our school was known from 1868 until 2001 as the Lebanese Evangelical School for the Blind. It was founded by dedicated Christian missionaries and was the first school for blind people in the Middle East. The academic year 2001/2002 brought a major change in our program. We extended our ministry to mentally challenged children.

Liberia

• Liberia Christian Association of the Blind (CAB)
  CAB directs its efforts towards the prevention of blindness among the Liberian people as well as vigorously seeks to educate those already blind without discrimination.

Lithuania

• Lithuanian Blind and Visually Impaired People
  Information about Lithuanian Association of the Blind and Visually Handicapped (LASS), and institutions and organisations under its umbrella as well as education, employment and services provided for the blind and visually impaired citizens of the Republic of Lithuania.
• Lithuanian Training Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired
  In 1991 Lithuanian Government passed a Law of Integration. Because of this reason Vilnius school was organized to Lithuanian Training Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired in 1994.

Luxembourg

• 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.
• A large database on disability issues.
• 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.
• Letzeburger Blannevereenegung
  Association for the visually impaired in Luxembourg. (In German, French and Luxembuersch)

Malaysia

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

• St. Nicolas' Home
  Our Mission is to provide education, training and employment opportunities for visually impaired in Malaysia.

• Malaysian Association for the Blind (MAB)
  MAB is the premier voluntary organization in Malaysia serving visually impaired persons. It provides services that help the blind and prevent the tragedy of avoidable blindness.
• Sabah Society for the Blind
  Sabah Society for the Blind (SSB) established to help those with little or no sight to optimize their opportunities by providing specialist staff, information and technology resources to meet individual needs.

Mali

• Union Malienne des Aveugles
  National organization of people with visual impairment in Mali. (In French)

Mexico

• Antarq
  Mexican distributor of assistive tecknology. (In Spanish)