Types of Disability

Types of Disability.

British Computer Society Disability Group. (remote site)
Ability (local file)
AbilityNet (local file)
Ace Centre Advisory Trust (local file)
Ace/Access Centre (local file)
ADSA (local file)
BCS Disability Group (local file)
CENTRA (local file)
Disabled Data Link Group (local file)
Disabledinfo.com (local file)
Innovations in Information (local file)
IT Can Help Network (local file)
Keytools Ltd (local file)
National Federation of Access Centres (local file)
REMAP engineers (local file)
REMAP Yearbook (local file)
Riverside Academy (local file)
Riverside Centre (local file)
Skill (local file)
The Computability Centre (local file)
Workability Project (local file)
www.microsoft.com/enable/ (remote site) concerns ways that Microsoft Windows-based applications can be accessed by people with various disabilities.
British Educational and Communications Technology Agency. (Link not working)
Communication Aids for Language and Learning. (Link not working)
www.disabilitynow.org.uk/ (remote site) On-line publication which gives information about many disability issues including accessibility to computers.

Aids to Physical Disability

Aids to Visual Disability

Sensory Systems (local file)
Information on IBM's new talking Web browser and its Screen reader. Note: the link to this site was http://www-3.ibm.com/able/ but now gets "Access denied". Any information about a substitute link will be welcome.
Information on BrookesTalk Web Browser being developed by Oxford Brookes University. (remote site)
British Computer Association of the Blind. (remote site)
http://www.vi-access.com/index.shtml (this link is now broken -- mending information requested) This web site is (was!) entirely devoted to issues concerning the accessibility of Microsoft Windows-based applications to people with visual impairments.
Isle of Wight Society for the Blind (local file)
Macular Disease Society (local file)

Aids to Hearing

Rehab Services for Deafened People (local file)
www.televirtual.com gives information about software which creates a virtual human able to translate teletext TV subtitles into deaf sign language. (remote site)

Aids for Dyslexics

Aids to Persons with Learning Difficulties