This page provides links to organisations providing useful resources on the use of ICT to empower people with disabilities (see also Practical Advice sub-page):
- AbilityNet – UK focus – a wide range of free expert resources about the many ways that technology can help people with disabilities
- ADD International – independence, equality, opportunity for disabled people living in poverty.
- Apple – Accessibility – Apple has been a long-standing champion of universal accessibility
- Be My Eyes – connects blind people with volunteer helpers from around the world via live video chat
- Business Taskforce on Accessible Technology
- C-Leg prosthetics – The C-Leg is the original, most popular computerized prosthetic leg
- CAST – Universal Design for Learning – a nonprofit research and development organisation
- Choike‘s feature on accessibility
- Closing the Gap – helping link children with disabilities with the right technologies
- DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) consortium
- Hao2 – social firm promoting inclusive innovation, especially for autism
- IBM Accessibility creating an accessible workplace, including hardware checklist
- Inable – Empowering blind and visually impaired students in Africa through assistive computer technology
- Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCAD University
- ITU Persons with Disabilities pages on digital inclusion
- Lucid Research‘s SPOT online dyslexia screening and positive strengths profiler
- Mada (Qatar Assistive Technology Center)
- Microsoft’s guides and resources: Microsoft’s Accessibility in Education – guides and resources for education for those using Microsoft software; Microsoft’s Accessibility in the Classroom – guides and resources on accessibility in the classroo
- MyAccessible.eu – Collective awareness platform. Developing tools for collectively gathering and sharing information on the accessibility of public places in Europe.
- Natural Reader – Text to Speech software with natural sounding voices
- NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) is a free “screen reader” which enables blind and vision impaired people to use computers
- RNIB Accessibility hardware information for blind and visually impaired people
- Shambles ICT and Special Needs listing
- Sightsavers International seeking to eliminate avoidable blindness and equality for people with disabilities.
- Special Books by Special Kids (and Facebook page) – mission is to show the beauty of our differences while promoting unity
- Swedish Post and Telecom Authority – accessible communications for everyone
- TapTapSee – a mobile camera application designed specifically for the blind and visually impaired iOS users
- Tawasol – bilingual Arabic / English symbol dictionary of the most frequently used words in spoken and written communication (Tawasol in Arabic) represented by images and pictograms
- Teachers with Apps: 50 best iPad Apps for Reading Disabilities
- Telecentre for Disabilities – a group working to promote and improve telecentres’ knowledge on ICTs for people with disabilities
- UK National Association for Special Educational Needs (NASEN)
- UNESCO feature on people with disabilities and ICT
- University of Buffalo Assistive Technology Training Online Project
- University of Toronto Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
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