This category contains a list of web sites providing educational and informational resources for all levels of vision impairment.
Recommended Resources
ACB, the American Council of the Blind's web site includes a forum, radio stations specifically created for the visually imparied, as well as news and resources.
http://www.acb.org
American Foundation for the Blind
AFB, the American Foundation for the Blind, is a non-profit organization which provides information and referrals about living with blindness or other visual impairments.
http://www.afb.org
The Blind Readers' Page is a web directory that provides alternative information formatted in a way that is accessible to the visually impaired. The site has listings of Braille texts, large print resources, web audio and recorded cassettes. The site has more than two thousand links, which have all been annotated and evaluated.
http://www.blindreaders.info
The Blindskills web site offers solutions and answers to questions regarding blindness, visual impairment and vision loss for persons suffering from either, as well as their families.
http://www.blindskills.com/
The Braille Institute is non-profit organization that seeks to help blind and visually impaired people. You can find out about the Institute's Library Services from this website. You can also find out how to volunteer or donate money to the Institute.
http://www.brailleinstitute.org/
The Foundation Fighting Blindness is a non-profit organization which funds research at over 50 institutions in the USA and around the world in the area of eye diseases and disorders.
http://www.blindness.org/
The Helen Keller Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mandate to research and to educate the public about blindness. Web site contains testimonials, and contact information.
http://www.helenkellerfoundation.org/
Helen Keller International is a non-profit organization which helps institutions in countries where blindness and visual impairment is rampant.
http://www.hki.org/
International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
IAPB, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, is a non-profit organization which provides information about diseases and disorders of the eye which ultimately lead to blindness.
http://www.iapb.org/
International Society for Low Vision Research & Rehabilitation
ISLRR, the International Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation, is a non-profit organization which conducts scientific research in the field of low vision and rehabilitation of people with low vision.
http://www.islrr.org
The Keystone Blind Association is a non-profit organization which offers orientation and mobility services and employment help for the blind, or otherwise visually impaired.
http://www.keystoneblind.org/
The Low Vision Gateway is a website that provides information on vision loss, low vision, blindness and other vision problems. The Gateway also has details on books on vision. You can also find out about coping strategies on coping with declining blindness.
http://www.lowvision.org
National Braille Press (NBP) is a nonprofit publisher of magazines, textbooks, and other materials in the Braille alphabet, widely used by those with vision impairments. You can also find materials for children at the Press's Children's Book Press. The Press also provide prizes names after Louis Braille, the inventor of what is sometimes called the blind alphabet.
http://www.nbp.org
The National Eye Institute is a non-profit organization which funds clinical studies, and gives grants and funds research into blindness, as well as diseases and disorders of the eye.
http://www.nei.nih.gov/
National Federation of the Blind
NFB, the National Federation of the Blind, is a non-profit organization which provides resources for the blind; web site includes technology news, visual aids and research information.
http://www.nfb.org
The Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) is a non-profit organization providing information for the blind or partially sighted people in the United Kingdom.
http://www.rnib.org.uk/
Sight Savers International is a non-profit organization which seeks to combat and prevent blindness globally. Web site provides donation and volunteering information.
http://www.sightsavers.org.uk/
The Associated Blind (TAB) Inc. is a non-profit organization which offers programs for and to help blind, or otherwise visually impaired people.
http://www.tabinc.org/
The Accessible Friends Network
TAFN, the Accessible Friends Network is a non-profit organization created to improve the quality of life for and by blind, visually impaired, using the internet.
http://www.tafn.org.uk/
Unite For Sight is a non-profit organization that develops sustainable solutions to reduce incidents of blindness caused by obvious health disparities.
http://www.uniteforsight.org/
THe V. I. Guide is a comprehensive web site which includes resources for parents and teachers of blind and visually impaired children.
http://www.viguide.com/
The Vision of Children Foundation is a non-profit organization whose aims include the eradication of hereditary childhood blindness, and the prevention of the onset of blindness in latter years.
http://www.visionofchildren.org/
