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International Blindness Organisations and Services

  • American Council of the Blind
    • ACB Radio
  • American Foundation for the Blind – a site containing articles, product reviews, and sells products that meet the needs of people who are vision impaired of all ages.
  • American Printing House for the Blind
  • Blind Citizens New Zealand
  • Blindness Resource Center – contains many links to blindness related websites.
  • Bookshare – an international library available to people with print reading disabilities and/or vision impairments in over 36 countries. It contains over 100,000 books in both Daisy and Braille formats. This library is provided at an affordable yearly subscription, with a one-time creation fee they use to offset the cost of verifying your disability.
  • Canadian National Institute for the Blind
  • DAISY Consortium – Digital Audiobased Information System – a talking book system.
  • EnableLink – the online community for people who are blind or vision impaired, their families, friends and colleagues.
  • Equipment for Kenya
  • Hadley School for the Blind
  • Library of Congress (USA)
  • MD Support: The Eyes of the Macular Degeneration Community – provides information and support for people dealing with macular degeneration and related retinal diseases which lead to a loss of central vision.
  • Narrative Television Network – makes movies and television programming accessible to blind and vision impaired people through narration, including free narrated programming on the web.
  • National Federation of the Blind (USA)
  • National Federation of the Blind: Advocates for Equality (Canada)
  • Nystagmus Network – a UK-based self-help group providing support for adults and children with nystagmus, their parents and teachers, and fostering research into the condition.
  • Operation Eyesight – a non-profit organisation that helps those threatened with preventable and treatable blindness conditions.
  • Perkins Scout – a searchable database of carefully evaluated online resources related to blindness.
  • Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
  • Royal National Institute for the Blind (UK)
  • Sight Savers International
  • Vision Center – a one-stop shop for all things vision.
  • World Blind Union
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New Horizons is Blind Citizens Australia’s weekly radio show. It is an interview style, with topics relevant to people who are blind or vision impaired.

It runs for about 15 minutes, in MP3 format.

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