Useful Links

Listed below are some links to websites that blind people and their families may find useful.

Main organisations and charities for blind people

http://www.rnib.org.uk/

Royal National Institute for the Blind.- The UK’s leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight problems.

http://www.gdba.org.uk/

Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

http://www.whitestick.co.uk

Whitestick listing information and services relating to blind people.

Computers and technology for blind people

http://www.abilitynet.co.uk/

Making mainstream computer technology accessible to people with disabilities.

http://www.blindcooltech.com/

Blind Cool Tech – a podcast that discusses life and technology, especially technology that blind people can use.

http://www.itcanhelp.org.uk/

IT Can Help (ITCH) - network of volunteers who are able to offer free local computer assistance to disabled people.

http://www.ucandoit.org.uk/

U Can do IT - charity which provides computer training for blind people in their own homes.

Talking books and newspapers

http://www.nlb-online.org/

National Library for the Blind - free library service for blind and partially sighted readers who want books in accessible formats

http://www.buyaudiobooks.co.uk/

Whilst hunting for audio books all over the internet, from shops to auctions, we have discovered that there is no site providing all the information that we would want when choosing an audio book.

http://www.talkingbooks.co.uk/

The Talking Book shop specialises exclusively in audio books on CD, cassettes and MP3CD.

http://www.bbcaudiobooks.com/

Welcome to BBC Audiobooks, the UK's leading audiobook publisher and to a broad, diverse and inclusive range of spoken word and large print titles geared specifically to the requirements of libraries and their users.

http://www.tnauk.org.uk/

Talking Newspaper Association of the UK - records on to audio cassette over 185 national newspapers and magazines for blind and partially sighted and disabled people

http://www.yrguk.com/

UK Audio Network - streamed audio, offering links to other audio content freely available on the web

http://www.calibre.org.uk/

Calibre -free cassette library for blind and print disabled people

My technology providers and support

http://www.tandt-consultancy.com/

These are the guys to speak to with regards to voice recognition software and its application in computing for blind and visually impared people.

http://www.accessequality.com/

David Fullerton, Assisted Technology expert who installed & set up my system and achieved the impossibile by teaching me how to use it.

http://www.one2onecomputertuition.co.uk/

Andy Hutchinson, my local IT support

Out and about

http://www.traveleyes.co.uk/