List Of Companies Selling Products For Blind Persons and Persons With Low-Vision
ABISee Inc. - manufactures a portable instant scanning/reading machine for the
blind and deaf-blind that allows output to a Braille display and speech; an
instant book-to-speech tool with a fast, 20-page-per-minute scanner and OCR of
bound books; and a flexible CCTV.
Call 800-681-5909
Or visit www.abisee.com .
AI Squared - sells ZoomText magnification and reading software, now on USB flash
drives, as well as a large-print keyboard.
Call 800-859-0270
Or visit www.aisquared.com .
American Association of the Deaf-Blind - is a
national consumer organization that provides: advocacy; an information
clearinghouse, referral and technical assistance; a listserv; e-newsletters;
national conferences; and The Deaf-Blind American magazine.
Contact AADB, 8630 Fenton St. #121
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3803.
Or call TTY: 301-495-4402; voice: 301-495- 4403
Or visit aadb-info@aadb.org .
American Printing House for the Blind - is a
150-year-old producer of Braille and a provider of a wide variety of accessible
educational and daily living products.
For catalogs, call 800-223-1839
Or visit www.aph.org .
American Thermoform Corp./ATC Low Vision -
offers Braille production equipment, Braille paper and supplies as well as a new
line of low-vision products.
Call 800-331-3676 or 909-593-6711
Or visit www.americanthermoform.com
.
AT&T - offers residential and wireless calling
services, and has special services for customers with disabilities.
Call 800-222-0300 for residential and 800-331-0500 for wireless
Or visit www.att.com .
Aurora Ministries - provides Bibles on CD and cassette to more than 135
countries in 67 languages. They have the King James Version, the New King James
Version, and the International Children's Bible.
Call 941-748-3031
Write to
bibles@auroraministries.org
Or at P.O. Box 621
Bradenton, FL 34206.
Visit
www.audiobiblesfortheblind.org ,
Bay Area Digital - researches, develops and
markets accessible medical products.
Contact Christopher Gray - President
870 Market St. #653,
San Francisco, CA 94102.
Call 415-217- 6667
Or visit www.bayareadigital.us .
Bookshare.org increases access to books by
enabling book scans to be shared, thereby leveraging the collections of
thousands of individuals who regularly scan books. Individual subscriptions cost
$25 to sign up, and $50 annually.
Visit www.bookshare.org
Or send e-mail to info@bookshare.org .
Braulio Thorne is a blind entrepreneur who
sells a variety of merchandise, including essential oils, perfumes, clothing,
accessories and more.
Call him at 212-929-7453.
Cambium Learning Technologies is comprised of three companies, one of which is
Kurzweil Educational Systems, makers of the Kurzweil 1000. This award-winning
software makes printed or electronic text accessible.
Call 800-894-5374 or 781-276-0600
Or visit www.kurzweiledu.com .
Diagnostic Devices sells two talking blood
glucose monitors: the Prodigy Voice, a totally audible, no-coding system, and
the Prodigy Autocode, a Spanish-English, no-coding system.
Call 800-366-5901
Or visit www.prodigymeter.com .
Dolphin Computer Access has a range of
software products, including screen reading, screen magnification, and reading
and writing tools.
Call 609- 803-2171 or 866-797-5921.
Or visit www.yourdolphin.com
Duxbury Systems Inc. produces software for
Braille, including the Duxbury Braille Translator (DBT) and MegaDots. DBT
supports Grade 1 and Grade 2 translation in English, Spanish, French, German,
Portuguese, Arabic, Malaysian, Swedish and other languages. Duxbury's software
can produce contracted and un-contracted Braille, mathematics and technical
Braille.
Visit www.duxburysystems.com
Or call 978-692-3000.
E.M. Vitu Inc. sells standalone print readers,
scanning and reading software, screen readers, screen magnifiers, Braille
displays and embossers, translation software, accessible PDAs and CCTVs, and
complete PC systems.
Call 888-367-4004 or 847-367-4004.
En-Vision America Inc. provides high-tech voice-enabled products, such as the
i.d. mate OMNI, the talking bar code reader, and ScripTalk, the talking
pharmaceutical reader.
Call 800-890-1180
Or visit www.envisionamerica.com .
Enabling Technologies offers braillers and
reading machines.
Call 772-225-3687 or 800-777-3687
Or visit www.brailler.com .
Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation
103 Old Iron Ore Road,
Bloomfield, CT 06002
Call 860- 243-5200
Or visit www.fidelco.org .
Freedom Scientific develops, manufactures and
markets technology-based products that provide equal access to information and
computing for those with vision impairments or learning disabilities. Products
for the blind include PAC Mate Omni accessible pocket PC; PAC Mate portable
Braille displays; JAWS screen-reading software; MAGic screen- magnification
software; OpenBook scanning and reading software; Focus Braille displays;
FSReader DAISY player; SARA scanning and reading appliance; StreetTalk GPS
solution; ScanTalker talking barcode reader solution; FSTTY deaf-blind telephone
communications; and FaceToFace deaf- blind personal communications.
Call 800-444-4443
Or visit www.freedomscientific.com
.
Guide Dogs for the Blind has campuses in California and Boring, OR.
Contact P.O. Box 151200
San Rafael, CA 94915-1200.
Or call 800-295-4050 or 415-499- 4000.
Or visit www.guidedogs.com .
Guide Dogs of America
13445 Glenoaks Boulevard
Sylmar, CA 91342.
Call 818- 362-5834
Or visit www.guidedogsofamerica.org
.
Guide Dogs of the Desert
P.O. Box 1692
Palm Springs, CA 92263.
Call 760-329- 6257
Or visit
www.guidedogsofthedesert.org .
Guiding Eyes for the Blind
611 Granite Springs Road
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598.
Call 800-942-0149 or 914-245-4024
Or visit www.guidingeyes.org .
GW Micro sells the Window-Eyes screen reader,
the Braille Sense notetaker, the SmallTalk Ultra mini-PC; the portable SenseView
magnifiers/CCTVs; the VoiceSense PDA; and the SyncBraille display.
Call 260-489-3671
Or visit www.gwmicro.com .
Hadley School for the Blind serves more than 10,000 students annually in all 50
states and 100 countries. Hadley has a course for you if you are: a blind or
visually impaired individual over 14 years of age; a relative of a blind or
visually impaired child or adult; or a professional in the blindness field.
Classes are free of charge to blind and visually impaired students and their
families and are affordable for blindness professionals.
Contact 700 Elm St., Winnetka, IL 60093.
Call 847-446-8111 or 800-323-4238
Or visit www.hadley.edu .
Handy Tech North America sells: accessible
mobile phones and PDAs; bar-code scanners; Handy Tech Braille notetakers and
displays; Index Braille embossers; the BrailleSense Plus and the VoiceSense;
screen-reading and magnification software; and video magnification and OCR
systems.
Call 651- 636-5184
Or visit www.handytech.us .
Humanware markets products in the following areas: Braille and speech;
low-vision aids; orientation; digital talking book players; and learning
disabilities. In the Braille and speech area, they sell notetakers; handheld
computers; Braille embossers and writers; Braille displays; the ScannaR reading
machine; and screen readers. For low-vision they have portable magnifiers.
Orientation products include the Trekker line and the BrailleNote GPS.
Call 800-722-3393
Or visit www.humanware.com .
Itex makes the SiRecognizer, a portable OCR
system able to recognize and read the text on objects regardless of their shape
or position. The unit takes a snapshot and reads out the result in less than 10
seconds. It can read and speak in over 130 languages--even text on TVs or LCD
displays.
Visit www.itex.info .
KNFB Reading Technology sells the Reader
Classic, a handheld personal reading device, and the Mobile Reader, a personal
reader combined with a cell phone. Developed in cooperation with the National
Federation of the Blind, these devices read most print documents, including U.S.
currency, and include a voice recorder, music player and more.
Call 877-547- 1500
Or visit www.knfbreader.com .
Leader Dogs for the Blind
1039 S. Rochester Road
Rochester, MI 48307.
Call 888-777- 5332 or 248-651-9011.
LevelStar has introduced the Icon plus Docking Station, a mobile manager and
note taker. Engineered with a two-part design, the Icon can be in your hand like
a PDA, or, when plugged into the Docking Station, it can be used as a note
taker.
Visit www.levelstar.com
Or call 800-315-2305 or 303-926-4334.
Lutheran Braille Workers publishes biblical, Christ-centered literature in
Braille and large print in more than 30 languages. Its publications, which are
free of charge, are produced by thousands of volunteers and distributed to 120
countries.
Contact 13471 California St., P.O. Box 5000
Yucaipa, CA 92399.
Call 909-795-8977
Or visit www.lbwinc.org.
Maxi-Aids is a superstore of assistive products
for independent living.
Visit www.maxiaids.com
Or call 800-522-6294 or TTY: 800-281-3555.
Media Access Group at WGBH has been pioneering and delivering accessible media
for more than 30 years. There are three components: The Caption Center, the
world's first captioning agency, which pioneered access to television for
viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing. Descriptive Video Service provides
descriptive narration of key visual elements, which is then inserted within the
natural pauses in dialogue to help low-vision viewers to better understand the
story. CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) was founded in 1993
to build on WGBH's expertise in the field of media access. NCAM is a research,
development and advocacy entity that works to make existing and emerging
technologies in a broad range of media more accessible to all audiences.
Visit www.access.wgbh.org
Or call 617-300- 3600.
Mind's Eye Travel creates tours for visually impaired and blind people.
Visit www.mindseyetravel.com
Or call 207-542-4438.
The National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments is a
national non-profit organization that enables parents to find information and
resources for their children who are blind or visually impaired, including those
with additional disabilities.
Write to P.O. Box 317
Watertown, MA 02471.
Or visit napvi@perkins.org
Or call 800-562-6265 or 617-972-7441.
National Statler Center for Careers in Hospitality Service offers a unique
concept in hospitality employment training that provides physically disabled
individuals nationwide with the right tools for successful careers in the
rapidly growing industries of hotel operations, travel and tourism, or sales and
marketing.
Write to 1160 Main St.
Buffalo, NY 14209.
Or call 716-882- 5690
Or visit
www.olmsteadcenter.org/home/statlercenter .
Navi-tech Inc. manufactures and markets the patent-pending Detectable Guidance
Markers, which are new and improved detectable orientation products.
Contact Rob Cook at 541-741-4367
Or robgcook@comcast.net .
Newsreel Magazine is a unique interactive audio monthly produced in the voices
of its blind or visually impaired subscribers. Each issue contains three hours
of content recorded in MP3 format or on a four-track, 90-minute NLS format
cassette with around 50 to 60 articles. Editor Kate Snyderman even came to my
table, microphone in hand, to conduct a quick interview about the Ziegler.
Contact 8 E. Long St. #420
Columbus, OH 43215.
Or call 888-723-8737 or 614-469-0700
Or visit www.newsreelmag.org .
Pilot Dogs Inc.
625 W. Town St.
Columbus, OH 43215.
Call 614-221-6367
Or visit www.pilotdogs.org .
Plextor LLC sells DAISY players and recorders, including the new portable
Plextalk.
Visit www.plextalk.com .
Polara Engineering Inc. manufactures accessible pedestrian signals and
ADA-compliant pedestrian push buttons.
Call 888-340-4872 or 714-521-0900
Or visit www.polara.com .
R. Schaf Toys makes wooden toys and games that are very blind-friendly. To
receive a price list of items that he sells, send an e-mail to
rschaf@bellsouth.net and put "price
list" in the subject line.
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic has an
extensive collection of audiobook titles in a broad variety of subjects at all
academic levels. Anyone with a documented disability that makes reading standard
print difficult is eligible to use RFB&D's audio textbooks.
Call 800- 221-4792
Or visit www.rfbd.org .
Sendero Group develops and sells GPS and maps programs for the BrailleNote
family of products. Sendero also sells the BrailleNote and VoiceNote, Voice
Sense, Braille Sense Plus, Miniguide, i.d. mate OMNI, Talks, Mobile Speak, KNFB
Mobile Reader, VictorReader Stream and Tiger embossers.
Call 530-757-6800
Or visit www.senderogroup.com .
Serotek Corp. has developed a robust network that enables users requiring
adaptive technology to access the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms, shopping and
more while using a simple and easy design interface.
Visit www.serotek.com
Or call 866-202-0520.
Social Security Administration provides pamphlets
and fact sheets in alternative formats, including Braille, large print, 3.5-inch
diskette, cassette and CD. It also provides documents in Spanish, but only in
cassette and CD formats.
Contact The Braille Services Team
L1141 West Low Rise Building
6401 Security Boulevard
Baltimore, MD 21235.
Or call 410-965- 6414 or 800-772-1213 or TTY: 800-325-0778.
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc.
4210 77th St.
E. Palmetto, FL 34221.
Call 941-729-5665 or 800-944-3647.
Talking Tabs develops all-audio guitar instruction CDs that make learning guitar
fast, easy and fun.
Visit www.talkingtabs.com
Or call 800-660-6850.
Talking Thermostats.com sells a talking thermostat that announces day, time,
room temperature and temperature setting. This unit has audio instructions and a
lifetime warranty. Other products available include the Freeze Alarm, which
calls up to three numbers for high/low temperature alerts or when power fails,
and the Water Alarm, which sounds an alarm when it detects water on your
basement floor.
Visit www.talkingthermostats.com
Or call 800-838-8860 or 763-591-9557.
Tenacity Inc. sells the Accessaphone, an accessible telecommunications solution.
Call 337-735-9500.
The Seeing Eye is the oldest existing guide dog school in the world.
Contact P.O. Box 375
Morristown, NJ 07963.
Or call 973-539-4425
Or visit www.seeingeye.org .
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