Technology links
Access Watch
This is a site where people can post reviews of various technology products. If you want to know if you will be able to use a particular program or piece of technology, this is the place to look!
Blind Access Journal
This is a blog dedicated to accessibility. The author also chronicles life as a blind person.
The Blind Geek Zone
Here you will find many audio tutorials, useful programs, and general information on access technology. There is also a blog and a podcast.
Blind Cool Tech
This is a podcast dedicated to blindness and cool technology! It contains tutorials on various products, news items of interest to the blind, sound seeing tours, audio demonstrations that will help with daily tasks, and much, much more! You can subscribe to the podcast or download the audio files from the
Empowerment Zone
A comprehensive site including many blindness related topics. There are also many free utilities that make computer use easier for blind people.
AI Squared
Makers of Zoomtext, a leading screen magnification software.
Accessible Games
This site contains exactly what it says: games that a blind person can play! They are completely auditory, and in many cases, self voicing. This means that no special software or hardware is required to play.
Access Technology Institute
This is a great place to find training courses and textbooks on various types of access technology
Duxbury Systems, Inc.
Braille translation software.
Freedom Scientific
Makers of many well-known products for the Blind such as JAWS for Windows screenreader.
JAWS For Windows mailing list page
Here you can subscribe to a mailing list that discusses all things related to JAWS. You will also find scripts that will make JAWS work better with some programs.
JFW Lite mailing list page
Due to the death of its author, the mailing list no longer exists, and the web page is not being updated. There is still a lot of helpful information here, and some of it can't be found anywhere else. The programs page is of particular interest.
Kurzweil Educational Systems
Makers of the Kurzweil 1000 scanning and reading software and other reading products.
EASI: Equal access to Software and Information
Provides helpful services including courses, webinars and podcasts. These services are geared toward helping people make software and information accessible to people with all disabilities including those who are blind.
