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- New Zealand
- Australian and Pacific blindness and disability organisations
- Other overseas blindness and disability organisations
- About blindness, deafblindness and vision impairment
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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.
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New Zealand
NZ blindness, disability and support organisations
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
NZ Guidelines
Group
NZ Radio For The Print Disabled
Inc
Parents of Visually Impaired
NZ
Retina New Zealand Inc
Ripple
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
Education: access standards
Group Special Education
Health and Disability
Commissioner
Ministry of
Education
Ministry of
Health
New Zealand Disability
Strategy
NZ Legislation
site
Office for Disability
Issues
Statistics NZ Disabilities pages
WEKA disability
information website
NZ optometry and ophthalmology
NZ Association of
Optometrists
NZ College of Optometrists
Inc
NZ
Optometric Vision Research Foundation
Optometry Dept.,
University of Auckland
Royal Australian and NZ
College of Ophthalmologists
NZ research
Health Research
Council
Social Policy
Evaluation and Research Committee
Universities
NZ tertiary study
Code of Practice: Inclusive Tertiary Education for Students with Impairments
NZ vision education
Blind & Low
Vision Education Network NZ
Education: access standards
Group Special Education
Homai National
School
NZ Ministry of
Education
Vision Education
Agency
NZ voluntary and community sector
ANZ Third Sector
Research
Charities
Commission
CommunityNet Aotearoa
Funding Information
Service
NZ Federation of Voluntary Welfare
Organisations
Pictures for Schools
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 of 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)
National Industries for the
Blind (USA)
Royal National Institute of the
Blind (UK)
RNIB Scientific Research
Unit
UN
Global Programme on Disability
Vision Connection
World Blind
Union
About blindness, deafblindness and vision impairment
Accessibility and universal design
CAST
universal design for learning
Dive Into
Accessibility
Education: access standards (NZ)
Kansas
State University Universal Design pages
NIMAS (XML-based
standard)
Trace Center
(accessible web sites)
W3C World Wide Web
Consortium
Web Accessibility
Initiative
World Summit on the
Information Society
Adaptive technology
Ai
Squared
Dolphin
Group
Freedom
Scientific
FreedomBox
GW Micro
HumanWare
Lexia
Microsoft
Accessibility technology (101k)
Pacific
Vision Equipment and Services
WEBSpeak
software for Windows
Java TM Access
Bridge 1.0
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)
Deafblindness
DB-Link
(deafblind children)
DeafBlindInfo.org
Deafblind International
Helen Keller Center
(youths and adults)
Sense (UK)
Equipment
American Printing House for the Blind
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
Social
Exclusion Unit (UK)
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
National Library
for the Blind (UK)
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
Macquarie Customised Accessibility Services
(Australia)
National
Disability Team (UK)
NIMAS (XML-based
textbook production)
Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind
Children (New South Wales, Australia)
Space Camp for Visually
Impaired Students