The Enabling Support Foundation

 
Internet Resources

the following is a list of resources for materials and tutorials which can supplement any materials from Portal Tutoring. These may change as new resources become available, so be sure to check this section of the web page often.

• Access Technology Institute
• American Printing House for the Blind
• Bookshare, fee based source for electronic texts
• Crisscross Technologies
• Freedom Scientific Tutorials
• Tutoreial for Nemeth Code from Humanware
• Iowa Department for the Blind's Tutorials
• National Braille Press, source for hard copy and electronic books and magazines
• National Library Service for the Blind, Library of Congress, USA
• O'Reilly Publishing, computer books in electronic text and in print
• Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, source for recorded and digital books, USA
• Sound Computing, for excellent sound based tutorials

Adaptive Technology Resources

the following are links to vendors of various products for the blind which are of a technical nature. Most of them are either hardware or software which has been adapted or designed especially for the blind.

• AI Squared, manufacturers of Zoomtext, magnification software
• Freedom Scientific, manufacturer of Jaws, Magic, Oben Book, Pac Mate and more.
• GW Micro, manufacturers and vendors of Window-Eyes, Braille Sense, Voice Sense, Book Sense and more
• Humanware, manufacturers of BrailleNote, VoiceNote, magnification products, Victor Reader Stream and more.
• NVDA, Non-Visual Desktop Access, a free screen reader
• System Access To Go, free screen reader for the blind.

Web Portals, Centers for Information
The following are web portals, large sites whose business it is to collect and disseminate information on subjects having to do with disability, medical treatment, access issues and more.

• The Accessible World
• American Foundation for the Blind
• American Printing House for the Blind
• Blind Cool Tech
• Equal Access to Software and Information
• Everything Blind
• Web Portal for all things blind for India
• Fred's Head Companion Database for blind
• Easter Seals Project Action Site
• Ocusource for vision impaired and blind seniors

Education And Literature Resources .br
The following are resources for obtaining books and tutorials, educational materials and other literature.

• American Printing House for the Blind
• National Library Service BARD site for audio digital books

http://www.bookshare.org">Bookshare, a library for the blind of etexts

• Baen Books, Science Fiction collection, free to blind
• Oldest site for Public Domain etexts.
• The Hadley School for the Blind, correspondence courses
• National Braille Press
• National Library Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
• NLS Web Braille for downloading books in Braille Format
• O'Reilly Publishing, an excellent source for books on computers and computer programs
• Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic
• The Samizdat Store for public domain books in collections for sale at reasonable prices
• Seedlings Braille books for kids