Public and Non-Profit Resources
This is a list of public and non-profit agencies which provide information or services related to information technology access for persons with disabilities. It is provided by the Center on Information Technology Accommodation (CITA) at the General Services Administration.
We want to keep it as accurate as possible. If you find anything in this list which is not accurate, please send mail to Paul.Fontaine@GSA.GOV.
The American Council of the Blind (ACB)
The American Council of the Blind
1155 15th Street, NW, Suite 720,
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 467-5081
(800) 424-8666
FAX: (202) 467-5085American Foundation for the Blind
A non-profit organization founded in 1921 and recognized as Helen Keller's cause in the United States, the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is a leading national resource for people who are blind or visually impaired, the organizations that serve them, and the general public. The mission of the American Foundation for the Blind is to enable people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve equality of access and opportunity that will ensure freedom of choice in their lives.
The Archimedes Project
... providing leverage for individuals with disabilities through information technology, from the Center for the Study for Language and Information
Stanford UniversityAssistive Technology On-Line.
At the Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories (ASEL) at the University of Delaware and the A.I. Dupont Institute. The purpose of Assistive Technology On-Line is to provide a wide range of information on AT to consumers, family members and professionals.
AsTeR - Audio System for Technical Readings
Project by T.V. Raman. Demonstration and technical information.
The Cornucopia of Disability Information
intended to serve as a community resource for consumers and professionals by providing disability related information, via an internet Gopher, in a wide variety of areas.
Do-It Gopher server
- The Do-It program at the University of Washington, with partial funding from the National Science Foundation, has compiled a concise listing of mailing lists, newsletters, newsgroups, and gopher servers containing information of interest to people with disabilities.
Equal Access to Software and Information EASI
an affiliate of the American Association for Higher Education, is dedicated to disseminate up-to-date information about providing equal access for persons with disabilities to computing and information technology. EASI provides both E-mail Workshops and on-site seminars on Adaptive Computing to universities, colleges, schools, businesses and non-profit organizations and assists them in making information technology accessible with the use of state-of-the-art adaptive computing technology.
ICADD - The International Committee on Accessible Document Design
is chartered "to develop and encourage the document transformations that print disabled persons are working toward. Members of this committee are working to ensure that the emerging HTML standards include enhanced accessibility for print disabled users.
Library of Congress, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)
National Association of the Deaf
Wooland Executive Center1218 Reidville Rd. Suite I
Spartinburg, SC 29306
(803) 576-9303 (voice)
(803) 576-9175 (TTY)The National Federation of the Blind
The National Federation of the Blind
1800 Johnson Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21230
410-659-9314The National Rehabilitation Information Center, (NARIC)
is a library and information center on disability and rehabilitation. Funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), NARIC collects and disseminates the results of federally funded research projects. The collection also includes commercially published books, journal articles, and audiovisuals.
Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) in London.
Contact information for Technology Related Assistance Act (Tech Act) State Programs
The Technology Accessment Program
at Gallaudet University conducts research and demonstration projects on visual technologies for deaf and hard of hearing people.
Trace Research and Development Center
at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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Public and non-profit Resources / August 16, 1995