Welcome to the Accessibility Information Desk. Here you will find various links to interesting sites which are accessible and of interest to people using speech access software. There are also links to electronic books, audio, accessible software, online language courses and dictionaries, news media and to some search Engines. I hope you will find these sites as interesting and useful as I have.
GW Micro home page - Manufacturers of Vocal-Eyes and Window-Eyes speech access programs. Click here for the GW Micro FTP site.
Freedom Scientific - Manufacturers of the Braille 'n Speak, the Type 'n Speak, Type Lite and Braille Lite notetakers; dealers in wide range of adaptive technology; programs to download; catalog, etc. Manufacturers of the Jaws For Windows (JFW) screen-reading software (visit the JFW Mailing List Home Page) and Manufacturers of the Arkenstone Ruby OCR scanning system.
Cobolt Systems Vendors of wide range of adaptive appliances, including many talking devices and sound samples.
Independent Living Aids - Vendors of magnifiers, talking watches, many other adaptive devices and braille books.
HumanWare - Dealers in adaptive technology.
American Printing House for the Blind - Vendors of a range of adaptive devices, including the ColorTest.
Blind SA - formerly The South African Blind Workers Organisation.
- South African Guidedog Association.
R N I B - Royal National Institute for the Blind, U K.
NFB - National Federation of the Blind, U S A.
ACB - American Council of the Blind.
Listen to ACB Radio or download a free audio player.
Zenith Tube - Phone book of blindness related Web sites.
Camera Obscura - the largest hypertext list of blindness related resources, e-texts, search engines and many more.
The Blind Readers' Page - many links to sites with reading material in various formats and other resources for the blind.
Project Gutenberg - Thousands of e-texts to download.
Project Gutenberg of Australia - Some e-texts to download that are not at the main PG site due to copyright restrictions in the US.
BUBL Link - book and text collections - a comprehensive collection of links to books and information about authors.
The On-line Books Page - Over 11000 on-line books and search engines to search texts.
Internet Public Library - over 10000 e-texts and many related links.
KnowledgeRush.com - big collection of free on-line books and a dictionary.
The Empowerment Zone - Great collection of technical books in e-text format.
Electronic texts and publishing resources - A well organised collection of links to sources of e-texts.
RealAudio - Listen to on-line audio.
Listen to on-line radio broadcasts
Listen to radio and CDs
Read poems by great American poets like Robert Frost, E.E. Cummings, Ezra Pound and many others
Listen to poets reading their own poetry and workshops on poetry and submit your own.
In Touch - Reading Services for the Blind, on-line audio.
Enter The Arena for all kinds of audio adventures and more.
Visit The Outpost.
Cathy's News Stand - links to a variety of accessible newspapers and magazines.
Paul Henrichsen's web site - many MB of speech friendly games and other programs to download as well as many links to accessible sites.
Take a leisurely stroll down Lindy's Lane and discover many paths to accessible and interesting sites.
Consult the Bobby approved, text based Probert Encyclopaedia to help you research a wide range of topics.
Foreign languages for travelers (text mode).
Free on-line language courses.
YourDictionary.com - a large collection of links to many different language resources.
Online Etymology Dictionary - a very comprehensive online etymology dictionary of English.
Online Spanish-English Dictionary - a comprehensive bidirectional Spanish-English dictionary.
Online dictionaries.
Geocities Language Support - language tools: translators, language identification, sound samples, dictionaries, etc.
Martindale's Reference Desk: Language Center - a huge site with many links to foreign language resources: courses, dictionaries, online translators, braille and much more.
Encarta World English Dictionary - speaks the words through your sound card.
Consult the American Heritage Dictionary for definitions and etomology and to hear the pronunciation of words.
Look up translations between English, Spanish, French, German and Italian.
Online Sesotho course.
Take an excellent online course in Old English from the University of Calgary
Independent Online - South African newspapers, The Star, Cape Argus, and others.
News24 - a South African site: news, weather, sport, the Stock Market, on-line debates, links to other S A Papers.
CNN - news from all over the world (text).
Reuters - World news, financial indicators and news.
Use the following form to perform a search,either on the web, for MP3 files, FTP sites or newsgroups respectively, with the AlltheWeb search engine:
Fill in the form below to use AltaVista Simple Search to find information on the Web:
Search the Web Usenet and Display the Results in Standard Form in Compact Form in Detailed Form Search for:
Fill in the form below to use AltaVista Advanced Search to find information on the Web:
Google simple interface.
Web Crawler search engine.
Yahoo search engine.
Or click here for more search engines
Mail me here for any comments or suggestions.