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• Paciello Group
  The Paciello Group is passionately dedicated to helping government agencies, technology vendors, e-commerce corporations, and educational institutions make their technology equally accessible to all people, including those with disabilities.
• Pathways Technology
  We offer the leading innovations in Technology and Magnification products for the visually impaired.
• Peninsula Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
  The primary resource in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties for those with severe loss of vision.
• Pennsylvania College of Optometry
  The Pennsylvania College of Optometry is the only optometric educational institution in the Commonwealth and one of only 17 in the nation.
• Penrickton Center for Blind Children
  Penrickton Center for Blind Children is private non-profit agency, providing five-day residential, day care, and consultation/evaluation services to blind, multi-disabled children ages one through twelve. Located in Michigan, USA.
• Perkins School for the Blind
  The oldest school for the blind in the United States, located in Watertown, Massachussetts.
• Petersen Research
  The purpose of this site is to acquaint you about my Braille activities. I have patented and prototyped an electronic Braille Display Unit (BDU). This device is designed to be an alternative to the current devices by nature of its cost and functionality.
• Prevent Blindness America
  Prevent Blindness Americ is a volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight.
• Prevent Blindness Virginia
  At this web site, you can learn about and do things that save the sight of tens of thousands of children each year.
• ProductWorks
  ProductWorks is a directory of consumer medical information, reviews and advice for the able and disabled.

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• Rand Eye Institute
  The Rand Eye Institute is one of the largest and most advanced eye surgical centers in the United States. We maintain a tradition of excellence and a firm commitment to quality care.
• Randolph-Sheppard Vendors of America (RSVA)
  RSVA is a national membership organization, composed of blind and visually impaired vendors. RSVA is committed to improving the working conditions of blind vendors by promoting their independent and effective participation in the systems which serve them, as well as in all material aspects of their work.
• RC Systems
  RC Systems has been involved in text-to-speech synthesis products since 1983. You'll find RC Systems' synthesizers in a wide range of products.
• Reader's Digest Partnership for Sight Foundation
  Partners for Sight is dedicated to increasing the self-reliance and dignity of blind and visually impaired persons. king the world easier to navigate for thousands of people, every day.

• ReadingMachines.com
  We are the North American Distributors of the Bookcourier, a tiny portable device which is designed to provide access to text, Braille and mp3 sound files for those with print-related disabilities.

• Recordings for the Blind & Dyslexic
  Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) is a national nonprofit organization that serves people who cannot read standard print because of a visual, perceptual or other physical disability.
• Refractive Surgery Patient Resource Center
  Information on surgery to correct focusing disorders of the eye.
• Repro-Tronic
  Repro - Tronics is the designer and manufacturer of the Tactile Image Enhancer, Flexi -Paper tactile imaging paper, the Thermo Pen II, and Tactile AudioGRAPHICS.
• Retina Reference (Lance Hahn)
  A lot of information about the retina and retina research.
• Retinal Information Network (RetNet)
  RetNet provides tables of genes causing inherited retinal diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration and Usher syndrome, and related information.
• Retinoblastoma.com
  Here you can read A Parent's Guide to Understanding Retinoblastoma by David H. Abrahamson.
• Review of Optometry Online
  Lots of information on optometry and optics.
• Ronolog
  Ronolog is software running under Microsoft Windows® 95 and 98 which opens up the world of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to the blind and vision-impaired.
• ROPARD - Association for Retinopathy of Prematurity and Related Diseases
  Founded in 1990 by a concerned group of physicians and volunteers, ROPARD is the first organization 'in the country dedicated to eliminating the problems of low vision and blindness in children caused by premature birth and retinal disease.
• Rose Resnick Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired
  Serves visually impaired people in San Francisco.
• RP Friends
  Welcome to the RP-Friends Home Page. The RP-Friends Mailing List is a place where people whose lives have been touched by RP gather for friendship and support.
• RP International
  California based organisation supporting research about Retinitis Pigementosa. The RP Center offers facilities for demonstrating the latest in visual aids for the partially sighted.
• RP Links (Wenberg)
  A lot of RP-related links and information.

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• Saint Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired
  Founded in 1911, Saint Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired is a private not-for-profit organization providing services to help individuals who are blind or visually impaired remain independent.
• Santa Rosa Low Vision Clinic
  Low vision clinic in San Antonio, Texas.
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• Schepens Eye Research Institute
  The institute is the largest independent eye research institute in America. The research conducted there has contributed greatly to the body of knowledge embraced by the visual sciences, and has had a major impact on ophthalmic practice internationally.
• Scojo Foundation
  A nonprofit social enterprise based in New York that uses market solutions to distribute inexpensive corrective glasses in the developing world.
• Section 508
  Section 508 requires that US Federal agencies' electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities. The Center for Information Technology Accommodation (CITA) has been charged with the task of educating Federal employees and building the infrastructure necessary to support the implementation.
• Seedlings Braille Books for Children
  Seedlings Braille Books for Children is providing high quality, low-cost Braille books for children.
• Seeing Eye
  Guide dog center in New Jersey.
• SensAble Technologies
  SensAble Technologies is dedicated to revolutionizing the human-computer interface with 3D Touch. SensAble's PHANToM product family and GHOST Software Development Kit enable a new world of applications.
• Sensory Access Foundation
  Founded by Dr. John Linvill, the father of the Optacon, our mission is to assist people who are blind or visually impaired to obtain or retain competitive employment by providing the highest quality access technology assessment, computer training, job placement and accommodation. services.
• Shadows in the Dark
  We are one of the largest providers for Personalized Braille Greeting Cards for the blind and visually impaired. Have your own personalized message placed on each card in large printand in Braille.
• ShrinkWrap Computer Products
  Dealer and consultant for accessible computer technology for the blind and print handicapped.
• Sight & Hearing Association
  The Sight & Hearing Association is dedicated to preventing the needless loss of vision and hearing through effective screening, education, and research.
• Sight Loss Services
  Sight Loss Services is a non-profit corporation servicing the Blind and Visually Impaired on Cape Cod and the Islands.
• Sight Savers of Alabama
  Many Alabama children suffer a lifetime of learning and social difficulties because the expense of eye care is out of reach for their families. In 1997 Sight Savers of Alabama began building a network of agencies and individuals to help underserved children obtain eye care.
• Sighted Electronics
  We carry a full line of braille translation software and screen access software.
• Skating Association for the Blind and Handicapped (SABAH)
  SABAH was formed as a Buffalo-based not-for-profit educational corporation in 1977. Soon after its initial efforts, SABAH expanded to include children, youth, and adults with all types of disabilities.
• Ski for Lights
  Ski for Light is a program of cross-country skiing benefiting blind, visually-impaired, and mobility-impaired individuals and their guides.
• Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
  The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, a nonprofit independent research institute, is located at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Dedicated to research on human vision, it was founded to encourage a productive collaboration between the medical clinic and the scientific laboratory.
• South Carolina Commision for the Blind
  The Commission is committed to the promotion of dignity and the development of opportunities for independence, including employment, for South Carolina residents of all ages who are blind or severely visually impaired.
• South Dakota School for the Visually Handicapped
  The South Dakota School for the Blind and Visually Impaired is your statewide resource in the education of children with vision loss.
• Southeastern Guide Dogs
  Purpose: to provide the blind and visually impaired with highly trained guide dogs to enhance their mobility and travel, with confidence, safety, and dignity.
• Speak to me
  The catalog of talking products.
• Special Education Exchange (SpEdEx)
  SpEdEx was started by Dr. Brad R. Walker in 1994 as a place where all persons interested in the field of Special Education could visit to find a wealth of information.
• SpecialEd Solutions
  We offer high quality educational equipment for special education programs with little room for budgetary waste.
• Squeakey Shoes
  Aids for parents to blind and visually impaired children as well as for children.

• St. Joseph's School for the Blind
  St. Joseph's provides educational, residential, and supportive therapy services to infants, children, young adults, and adults from throughout New Jersey.

• Sun Sounds
  Radio reading service for Arizona's, visually, physically,and learning disabled individuals.
• Susquehanna Association for the Blind and Vision Impaired
  For three-quarters of a century the Susquehanna Association for the Blind and Vision Impaired has been helping restore autonomy and independence to people in Lancaster and Lebanon county in Pennsylvania, USA.
• Synapse
  Adaptive and assistive technologies for productivity enhancement and to mitigate the limitations imposed on people with disabilities.

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• Tack-Tiles
  Tack-Tiles Braille Systems are interchangeable with standard LEGO-type blocks. They provide a unique bridge, a smoother, shorter, more interesting path to Braille literacy.
• Tactile Access to Education for Visually Impaired Students (TAEVIS)
  TAEVIS at Purdue University produces braille and tactile materials for blind students.
• Talking PC
  We integrate custom computers with speech or braille devices so that persons who are blind or visually impaired can take full advantage of today's technology.
• Talking Rx
  Talking Rx is a simple, easy-to-use device, that tells you exactly how many pills to take, when, and what for.Your doctor or pharmacist records the prescription information right into the Talking Rx.
• Talking Signs
  Talking Signs technology is an infrared wireless communications system that provides remote directional human voice messages that make confident, independent travel possible for visually impaired and print-handicapped individuals.
• Talking Tabs
  Talking Tabs provides innovative, entertaining lessons for teaching blind and visually impaired how to play their favorite songs on the guitar.
• Talking Tapes
  Talking Tapes is a national, not-for-profit, special education library. We provide textbooks, novels, and other materials on cassette tapes to those who have difficulty reading due to physical, cognitive, visual or learning disabilities.
• TechAdapt
  The company's driving goal is to use a combination of advanced Braille transcription techniques, emerging technologies and supporting software to provide open access to print and electronic materials to blind and visually handicapped individuals throughout the world.
• Techno Tiger
  TechnoTiger.com provides Computer Training for the World Blind.
• Telesensory
  Telesensory manufactures video magnifiers (CCTVs), scanners (OCR) and screen magnification products for low vision and blind people.
• Tennessee School for the Blind
  The Tennessee School for the Blind is a visionary resource for Tennesseans from birth through high school who are blind or visually impaired and for others who provide them with care and services.
• Texas Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments (TAPVI)
  TAPVI is a state wide organization serving families of children who are visually impaired or blind, including those who have multiple disabilities.
• Texas Association of Retinitis Pigmentosa (TARP)
  TARP serves as a national information sharing center to provide services to persons with progressive vision loss.
• Texas School for the Blind
  Large information resource. The school is located in Austin, Texas.
• Theater by the blind (TBTB)
  Theater By The Blind (TBTB), an integrated company of blind, visually impaired and sighted artists.
• Touch Graphics
  Touch Graphics conceives, designs and implements new computerized devices for the blindness and visual impairment community.
• Touch the Top of the World
  Erik Weihenmayer is a world class athlete: acrobatic skydiver, long distance biker, and marathon runner, skier, mountaineer, ice climber, rock climber. He is also a prolific speaker and author of Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See.
• Trace Research & Development Center
  The Trace Center is an interdisciplinary research, development and resource center on technology and disability at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
• Triumph Technology
  Minneapolis-based company that is owned and operated by business professionals with visual impairments. In addition to our own innovative and cost-effective low vision solutions, we distribute cutting-edge products in the assistive technology industry.

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• United States Association of Blind Athletes
  Non-profit amatuer sport organization that provides sport opportunities at the state, regional, national and international levels for the legally blind.
• United States Blind Golf Association
  The United States Blind Golf Association is organized and operated for the purposes of benefiting blind and vision-impaired persons and promoting the public good through programs that advance, and increase public awareness of, golf among the blind and vision-impaired throughout the United States.
• United States Braille Chess Association
  The purpose of USBCA is to actively encourage and assist in the promotion and advancement of correspondence and over-the-board chess among chess enthusiasts who are blind or visually impaired.
• University of Arkansas Rehabilitation Department
  Rehabilitation Teaching and Orientation and Mobility.
• University of Delaware Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories (ASEL)
  The ASEL focuses on research and development relating to the use of advanced rehabilitation and assistive technology by people with disabilities.
• University of Louisville V.I. Teacher Prep. Program
  The Department of Special Education has created a new delivery system which combines summer institutes and distance education courses.
• Upshaw Institute for the Blind
  The Upshaw Institute for the Blind (formerly the Greater Detroit Society for the Blind) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing blindness, reducing the impact of blindness, and advocating for those with severe vision loss.
• US Access Board
  An independent agency that promotes access to services by people with disabilities across the whole of US federal government.
• Uveitis and Other Eye Conditions
  This page is dedicated an eye disease called uveitis. Uveitis is one of many little known eye conditions that can affect anyone.

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• V. I. Guide - A guide to Internet about visual impairments for parents & teachers
  This site contains information on many topics pertaining to parenting and teaching a child with visual impairments.
• Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (VABVI)
  Our mission is to enable Vermonters with vision problems, whether blindness or impairment, to achieve and maintain independence.
• Vermont Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired
  DBVI's mission is to assist Vermonters who are blind and visually impaired.
• ViewPlus Technologies
  ViewPlus develops and manufactures products that make information accessible. Specializing in blindness accessibility, ViewPlus is best known for TIGER braille embossers that print braille and tactile graphics direct from mainstream Windows software.
• VIOLA Technology
  Provider of assistive technology and services for people suffering from macular degeneration, blindness, a learning disability or other disabilities.
• Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired
  The Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired (DBVI) is committed to providing quality services to assist Virginia’s citizens who are blind, deafblind or vision impaired in achieving their maximum level of employment, education, and personal independence.
• Virginia Murray Sowell Center for Research and Education in Visual Impairment
  The center is an opportunity to continue the work begun by Dr. Virginia Sowell at Texas Tech University. It is designed to include an annual Distinguished Lecturer Series on the topic of visual impairment. The Center will eventually offer scholarships to students participating in the Visual Impairment, Orientation and Mobility, and Dual Sensory degree and certification programs. The Center is also designed to support faculty research and public service.
• Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind
  We serve children who are hard of hearing or deaf and who are blind or visually impaired.
• VisionAWARE
  VisionAWARE promotes self-help vision rehabilitation hints and adaptive techniques, and disseminate information on services and independent living resources to individuals with vision loss, their family members, and those who work with them.
• Vision Council of America
  Mission is o create awareness of the value of vision care and to grow the eyewear and vision care market through education, forums and expositions, industry statistics and data, technical standards, alliances and advocacy.
• Vision Dynamics
  Vision Dynamics features the latest state of the art vision aides and on site training.
• Vision for Tomorrow Foundqation
  The Vision for Tomorrow Foundation provides information on albinism (albino), aniridia and other retinal disorders causing visual impairment at birth.
• Vision of Children
  Vision of Children working toward the eradication of hereditary childhood blindness, ocular albinism and other blindness. The Vision of Children Foundation maintains a small administrative staff at its headquarters in San Diego, California. The focus of this staff is primarily fund raising, coordination of sponsored research, and provision of support for researchers, clinicians and families.
• Vision Rehab
  Vision Rehab is a state-of-the-art low vision management company developed to meet the specialized needs of visually-impaired individuals and the professionals that assist them.
• Vision Rehabilitation Services (SUNY College of Optometry)
  Welcome to the Vision Rehabilitation Web Site of the Vision Rehabilitation Services at the State University of New York, State College of Optometry.
• Vision Research Corporation
  Vision Research Corporation specializes in screening systems and services for the early detection of eye problems in children. VRC produces eye screening systems for use by pediatricians and others concerned with good eyesight in children. It also provides large-scale eye screening services in schools and day care centers, typically under corporate or government sponsorship.
• Vision Science
  An Internet Resource for Research in Human and Animal Vision.
• Vision Technology
  VTI manufactures a diverse line of video magnification CCTV systems to help people with macular degeneration and other forms of low vision to read, write and live independently.
• Vision World Wide
  Vision World Wide, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization providing information and referral worldwide in a variety of media for individuals and professionals concerned with vision loss.
• Vision-Aid
  Our vision is to facilitate the creation of a large network of vision rehabilitation centers in under-served areas of India by 2020 (in alignment with the WHO Vision 2020 initiative).
• Visionary
  Dictionary for terminology used in the study of human and animal vision. It includes terms from the areas of biological and machine vision, visual psychophysics, visual neuroscience and other related fields.
• VisionConnection
  VisionConnection is a one-stop, accessible online resource on vision impairment and vision rehabilitation.
• Visionhelp
  The Vision Help Network provides nationwide referrals for optometric vision therapy and related diagnostic services. Our members include expert developmental and behavioral optometrists, college professors, and the authors of leading textbooks on vision therapy.
• Visions Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
  VISIONS is a nonprofit agency in New York that promotes the independence of people of all ages who are blind or visually impaired.
• Visual-Tech Connection
  Your source in Ohio for Aladdin low vision solutions.
• Visually Impaired Forums
  These forums are here for the use of RP'ers and their families and friends. People with other visual disabilities are welcome to join and participate as well.
• Visually Impaired Pittsburgh Area Computer Enthusiasts (VIPACE)
  VIPACE disseminate and exchange information about computer hardware, software, related technologies and information of a less technical nature.
• Visually Impaired.com
  Site contents: Support resources, non-profit and government agencies, low vision aides, large print and recorded materials, audio books, information on free audio Bible, Christian audio books, pictures and information on macular degeneration.

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• Washington State School for the Blind
  WSSB provides specialized educational services to visually impaired youth within the state of Washington.
• Washington Talking Book & Braille Library
  A library located in Seattle.
• WAVE Web Accessibility Toll
  With the help of WAVE you can test how accessible a web site is.
• WebAIM
  Our goal is to improve accessibility to online learning opportunities for all people; in particular to improve accessibility for individuals with disabilities who currently may have a difficult time getting access to online learning opportunities. Contains screen reader simulatio and low vision simulation.
• WebText Reader
  WebText Reader is the fastest and easiest way for those with visual impairment or reading difficulties to access vital information on the Internet.
• Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children
  The mission of the school is to provide superior opportunities for training and education to students who in addition to visual impairment are disabled by other severe conditions.
• WGBH Media Access Group
  The Media Access Group at WGBH has been pioneering and delivering accessible media to disabled adults, students, and their families, teachers, and friends for over 30 years.
• Wilmer Eye Institute
  Lots of information from the wellknown clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
• Wisconsin Council of the Blind
  The Wisconsin Council of the Blind (WCB) is a private, not-for-profit agency. Its mission is to promote the dignity and independence of people in Wisconsin who are blind and visually impared by providing services, advocating legislation and educating the general public.
• World Access for the Blind
  World Access for the Blind is a non-profit organization employing unique teaching strategies to help blind and sighted people throughout the world improve their quality of life.

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