Changes: Blind links

Latest revision as of 19:52, 21 February 2019

On this page you will find blindness related resources. Most of them provide a lot of other resources, so it will not be necessary to add every blindness related site to this link list which should just offer qualitative starting points. You can discuss this collection on the Talk page.

Blind blogger[]

AccessWatch by Jamie Pauls
AFB Blog by the American Foundation for the Blind
Blind Access Journal by Darrell Shandrow from Tempe (Arizona/USA)
BlindConfidential by Christian Hofstader
emacspeak Blog, "the complete audio desktop" by T.V. Raman
Fred's Head Companion by the American Printing House for the Blind
Karen's Corner by Karen Shandrow
JulesFlute's Musings by Julia Mosen
Marco's Accessibility Blog by Marco Zehe from Hamburg (Germany), a former employee of Freedom Scientific, works for Mozilla Foundation now.
Marlaina's Musings by marlaina lieberg (Seattle/USA)
Mobile Space by Amir from Tehran (Iran). Good resource for mobile applications & hardware in combination with screen readers
NBP Books Update by Anna Dresner from National Braille Press (USA)
News Aggregator from Blind Planet
The Blind Geck Zone Blog by Rick Harmon (Ohio/USA)
The Mark Taylor Candleshore Blog by Mark Taylor from southern California
The Ranger Station, based in Austin (TexasUSA)
Voice of the Nation's Blind from the National Federation of the Blind (USA)
Wayne's Blog by Wayne Merritt from Austin (Texas/USA).
Wise Adwice by Helen McFadyen from Canada
Tasmanian Living Technology by Wayne McLean

Sites[]

Access World by the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
Blind Bargains by JJ Meddaugh
Blind Geek Zone by Rick Harmon (Ohio/USA)
Blind Planet by Chetan Bakhru
Bookshare.org is sponsored by Benetech
Nonvisual Development by Jamal Mazrui
WhiteStick Website by Tom Lorimer (UK)
LibriVox - Free audio recordings of books in the public domain (USA)

Audio and games[]

ACB Radio
AudioGames
Blind Cool Tech
The Blind Hour Podcast - this podcast contains adult content.
Blind Inspiration Cast

Open Source Projects[]

Loadstone-GPS is a software which runs on Nokia Symbian cell phones
NVAccess
The Speakup Project (no updates for a long time)
Orca is a screen reader for Linux, it work on GNOME Desktop engine and it is already provided by default on a number of operating system distributions

Organisations[]

Braille without Borders (BWB), founded by Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kronenberg
CBM International (Christoffel Blindenmission/Christian Blind Mission)
European Blind Union (EBU)
Eyeway.org
International Blind Sports Federation (English)
IISE, International Institute for social Entrepreneurs, Kerala/India, started by Braille without Borders
Sight Savers International
World Blind Union (WBU)

Wikipedia[]

Article Categorie: Blindness
Accessibility WikiProject: If you have accessibility problems with Wikipedia, you can report them on the project discussion page.
Wikipedia Accessibility Guidelines

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-On this page you will find blindness related resources. Most of them provide a lot of other resources, so it will not be necessary to add every blindness related site to this link list which should just offer qualitative starting points.
+On this page you will find blindness related resources. Most of them provide a lot of other resources, so it will not be necessary to add every blindness related site to this link list which should just offer qualitative starting points. You can discuss this collection on the [[Talk:Blind_links|Talk page]].
-== Blind bloggers ==
+== Blind blogger ==
 * [http://accesswatch.wordpress.com/ AccessWatch] by Jamie Pauls
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 * [http://karen4ever.blogspot.com/ Karen's Corner] by Karen Shandrow
 * [http://www.julesflute.com/ JulesFlute's Musings] by Julia Mosen
-* [http://www.marcozehe.de/ Marco's Accessibility Blog] by Marco Zehe from Hamburg (Germany). He is a former employee of Freedom Scientific and is now working for the Mozilla Foundation to improve the accessibility of their products.
+* [http://www.marcozehe.de/ Marco's Accessibility Blog] by Marco Zehe from Hamburg (Germany), a former employee of Freedom Scientific, works for Mozilla Foundation now.
 * [http://www.blindcast.com/ Marlaina's Musings] by marlaina lieberg (Seattle/USA)
 * [http://mobilespace.wordpress.com/ Mobile Space] by Amir from Tehran (Iran). Good resource for mobile applications & hardware in combination with screen readers
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 * [http://www.blind-planet.com/aggregator News Aggregator] from Blind Planet
 * [http://blind-geek-zone.blogspot.com/ The Blind Geck Zone Blog] by Rick Harmon (Ohio/USA)
-* [http://tdspodcast.com/default.aspx The Desert Skies] by Jeff Bishop
 * [http://mark.candleshoreblog.com/ The Mark Taylor Candleshore Blog] by Mark Taylor from southern California
 * [http://www.therangerstation.blogspot.com/ The Ranger Station], based in Austin (TexasUSA)
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 * [http://wayneism.blogspot.com/ Wayne's Blog] by Wayne Merritt from Austin (Texas/USA).
 * [http://wiseadvice.wordpress.com/ Wise Adwice] by Helen McFadyen from Canada
+* [http://www.taslivingtech.com.au Tasmanian Living Technology] by Wayne McLean
 == Sites ==
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 * [http://NonvisualDevelopment.org Nonvisual Development] by Jamal Mazrui
 * [http://www.whitestick.co.uk/index.shtml WhiteStick Website] by Tom Lorimer (UK)
+* [https://librivox.org/ LibriVox] - Free audio recordings of books in the public domain (USA)
 ==Audio and games==
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 *[http://www.audiogames.net/ AudioGames]
 *[http://www.blindcooltech.com Blind Cool Tech]
+*[http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/bhmode/the-blind-hour-podcast The Blind Hour Podcast] - ''this podcast contains adult content.''
+*[http://www.blindinspirationcast.com/ Blind Inspiration Cast]
 == Open Source Projects ==
+* [http://www.loadstone-gps.com/ Loadstone-GPS] is a software which runs on Nokia Symbian cell phones
-*[http://www.nvaccess.org/ NVAccess]]
-*[http://www.linux-speakup.org/ The Speakup Project]
+*[http://www.nvaccess.org/ NVAccess]
+*[http://www.linux-speakup.org/ The Speakup Project] (no updates for a long time)
+* [http://live.gnome.org/Orca Orca] is a screen reader for Linux, it work on GNOME Desktop engine and it is already provided by default on a number of operating system distributions
 == Organisations ==
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 * [http://www.braillewithoutborders.org/ENGLISH/conceptkerala.html IISE], International Institute for social Entrepreneurs, Kerala/India, started by Braille without Borders
 * [http://www.sightsavers.org/default.asp Sight Savers International]
-* [http://www.worldblindunion.org/en/ World Blind Union] (WBU)
+* [http://www.worldblindunion.org World Blind Union] (WBU)
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 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Accessibility Accessibility WikiProject]: If you have accessibility problems with Wikipedia, you can report them on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Accessibility project discussion page].
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Accessibility Wikipedia Accessibility Guidelines]
+Articles:
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook_Express Outlook Express]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook Outlook]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer Internet Explorer]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox Firefox]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screen_readers List of screen reader software]