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Useful websites for visually impaired
The following websites contain a range of resources and information for the visually impaired:
- Calibre Audio Library - Offers a free postal library service of unabridged books on memory sticks, MP3s and CDs for anyone with sight problems or physical disabilities which prevent them from reading print
- Guide Dogs for the Blind Association - Official website for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. They also provide a 'CustomEyes Book Service' producing custom-made large print books in font sizes and formats to suit the individual's eye condition
- Living Paintings - A free library of tactile books with audio description, bringing the visual world to life for blind and partially sighted people. They make special tactile versions of pictures that come to life when fingers feel them. Audio descriptions tell the pictures’ stories while directing the fingertips across the tactile image, describing what is being touched, felt and ‘seen’. Tactile story books for children also include clear braille sheets between each page of text so they can read the story's text themselves
- RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind) - The UK's leading blind charity offering information, support and advice to those with sight loss.
- RNIB Technology and independent learning - Lots of useful up-to-date information on access software, hardware and tablets
- RNIB Library - RNIB's national library service, offering over 60,000 titles in audio, Braille, giant print, music formats available entirely for free
- Scottish Sensory Centre - Useful information on a wide range of topics such as information on various eye conditions (along with implications and useful tips), low vision aids, equipment, braille
- MySight York - An independent local charity working to help people with sight problems be independent
Also see
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