Links
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- New Zealand
- Australian and Pacific blindness and disability organisations
- Other overseas blindness and disability organisations
- Other
About these links
Here is a list of handy links that will take you to other websites
in New Zealand and around the world that you may find interesting and
of use. Please note that the Foundation does not take responsibility
for the content of the sites to which it links, nor does linking
constitute an endorsement of the company or organisation
concerned.
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New Zealand
NZ blindness, disability and support organisations
Achieve
Age Concern NZ
Inc
Albinism Trust
Association of Blind Citizens
NZ
Blind Sailing
Blind Sport New
Zealand
Diabetes NZ
DPA NZ Inc
(Disabled Persons Assembly)
Glaucoma NZ
Health and Disability
Advocacy (Health and Disability Commissioner)
NZ Guidelines
Group
NZ Radio For The Print Disabled
Inc
NZ Riding for the Disabled Assn Inc
Parents of Vision Impaired
NZ
Retina New Zealand Inc
Ripple
Trust
Tiaho Trust
WEKA disability information
website
NZ sports organisations
SPARC (Sport and Recreation New Zealand)
NZ government and legislation (general)
Charities
Commission
Human
Rights Commission
National Library of
NZ
NZ Government Online
Statistics NZ
NZ government and legislation (health and disability)
District Health Boards
Health and Disability
Commissioner
Ministry of
Education
Ministry of
Health
NZ Legislation
site
Office for Disability
Issues
Statistics NZ Disabilities pages
NZ optometry and ophthalmology
NZ Association of
Optometrists
NZ College of Optometrists
Inc
NZ
Optometric Vision Research Foundation
Department of Optometry
and Vision Science, The University of Auckland
Royal Australian and NZ
College of Ophthalmologists
NZ research
Health Research
Council
Social Policy Evaluation and
Research Committee
NZ tertiary study
Te Puna Web Directory of Universities
Code of Practice for Tertiary Students with
Impairments
NZ vision education
NZ voluntary and community sector
Australia and New
Zealand Third Sector Research Inc
Charities
Commission
CommunityNet Aotearoa
Funding Information
Service
NZ Federation of Voluntary Welfare
Organisations
Australian and Pacific blindness and disability organisations
Links
provided by Blind Citizens Australia
Round
Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities
Inc
Vision
Australia
Other overseas blindness and disability organisations
E-accessibility
ACB Radio
AMD Alliance
International
American Council of the Blind
American Foundation for the
Blind
Canadian National Institute for the
Blind
Foundation Fighting
Blindness
International Center for Disability
Resources on the Internet
International Federation of Guide
Dog Schools for the Blind
National Federation of the Blind
(USA)
Royal National Institute of the
Blind (UK)
World Blind
Union
Accessibility and universal
design
CAST
universal design for learning
Dive Into
Accessibility
NIMAS (XML-based
standard)
Trace Center
(accessible web sites)
W3C World Wide Web
Consortium
Web Accessibility
Initiative
World Summit on the
Information Society
Google Accessible Web
Search for the Visually Impaired - promotes
results that are accessible
Adaptive technology
Ai
Squared
Dolphin
Group
Freedom
Scientific
GW Micro
HumanWare
Lexia
Microsoft
Accessibility technology (101k)
Pacific
Vision Equipment and Services
WEBSpeak
software for Windows
Java TM Access
Bridge 1.0
Listen and Learn
Recordings has audio introductions, tutorials and walk throughs that
are aimed at everyone from the beginner to the more advanced
professional looking to get a running start with new software or
hardware
Audio described videos
RNIB audio description homepage (UK)
WGBH (USA)
Braille
Australian Braille Authority
Braille Formats (online
version)
BRL:
Braille Reference Desk
HotBraille: free translation
service
International Council on
English Braille
Name game (see your name in braille) (AFB)
Future Aids: the Braille
Superstore has everything from braille books to low vision aids
Deafblindness
DB-Link
(deafblind children)
DeafBlindInfo.org
Deafblind International
Helen Keller Center
(youths and adults)
Sense (UK)
Equipment
American Printing House
for the Blind
Ocutech
Guides for blind, deafblind and vision-impaired people
Family Friendly Fun
and Special Needs Resources
Introduction to the Guitar for
the Visually Impaired
Human rights
Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Internet searching
Gateway to New Zealand Internet
Links and Resources
Text only access
for major search engines
Libraries for the blind and digital libraries
Camera Obscura - electronic
books
CNIB Library for
the Blind (Canada)
DAISY digital talking
books
NLS (USA)
Project
Gutenberg
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
(USA)
Revealweb online
catalogue (UK)
RNIB Talking Book Service (UK)
Vision Australia
Vision education and tertiary study overseas
The Blindness Resource
Center at New York Institute for Special Education
CAST universal
design for learning
NIMAS (XML-based
textbook production)
Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind
Children (New South Wales, Australia)
Space Camp for Visually
Impaired Students
Other
New Zealand Book
Month
Ability Adventures -
accessible travel
Book links - downloadable audio books, electronic texts, electronic
braille and online stores for audio books
Top 25
websites for gamers who are blind
Blind World - a free
online magazine with the latest news and goings-on in the blind
and visually-impaired communities
Eyes2eyes - a website
with tips and articles for the blind and vision-impaired