Able Informer - "International Disability Resource Magazine."

Accessibility Support - Microsoft - "Accessibility Home Page -

Welcome to Microsoft's Accessibility and Disabilities Web site. We hope you'll find here information about what we're doing and the tools that can help you remove barriers and make the world more accessible."

ADA & Disability Information - Iowa State University -
"State Listing of Centers for Independent Living
ADA resources
general disability information
university based disability information
products and services
non-profit organizations
commercial products and services
communication and computers
netnews, listservs, newsletters, announcements and writings
specific disabilities
legal resources"

Alphabet Signs - "Alphabet Signs specializes in well built, attention-getting, effective signage for businesses just like you. Signs for storefronts or roadsides. From ADA signs to changeable letter signs. We do it right the first time. We want you to know that from start to finish, you are entrusting your order with a courteous, competent, professional staff, who will inform you of your best options, manufacture and deliver your sign, on time, and within your budget.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provides that all public accommodations must provide for the special needs of individuals with disabilities by removing physical and communication barriers. Permanent rooms and spaces must be designated by signs with raised and Braille characters. The following signs are ADA compliant."

American Foundation for Blind - "Information Resources, Reports, Fact Sheets and More!
Quick Facts about AFB
Newsletters & Press Releases
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
AFB Press Catalog (Check out our NEW TITLES for 1998; NOTE: We're now linked to for on-line ordering!)
Helen Keller Photograph Collection and Biography
75 Reasons to Give to AFB
AFB HighSights '96 - The Ascent of El Capitan
NEW! Interested in working for AFB? Follow this link for AFB Job Postings"

(Reports from) Annenberg Washington Program - "In 1983 Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg founded The Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies as a nonprofit, neutral forum in the nation`s capital for examining pressing communications policy issues. The Program's creation coincided with explosive advances in communications technologies and the growing dominance of information services and products in global markets. Ambassador Annenberg wisely predicted the need, in light of new technologies, for a place in Washington where policymakers, industry officials, academics, the public, and the press could come together, speak frankly with each other, listen, and reach a deeper understanding.

The Program reaches diverse audiences by publishing a monthly newsletter, distributing every Program publication to nearly 400 college and university libraries in the United States, providing publications electronically through the Program's World Wide Web site on the Internet, and averaging 150 print, television, and radio appearances a month. Through these efforts, the Program encourages dialogue about communications policy issues and improves the quality and cost-effectiveness of communications resources and policymaking."

Assistive Media - "The net's first audio-literary service for persons with print reading/access barriers..."

Aurora Systems Inc. - "Software for Augmentative Communication and Learning Disabilities."

Better Life On-Line - "Disability Products."

BILBO Inovations - "Programmable Foot Switches."

BookWire - " Book-related resources."

California Department of Industrial Relations - "The Department of Industrial Relations was established to improve working conditions for California's wage earners, and to advance opportunities for profitable employment in California."

Canine Companions For Independence - "Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) is a nonprofit organization that provides highly trained assistance dogs to people with disabilities and to professional caregivers providing pet assisted therapy."

(Welcome to) CaptionMax - "CaptionMax is a team of highly skilled experts dedicated to absolute professionalism in closed captioning. Whether your job is a 30 second spot or an entire film collection, your project will be delivered on time, on budget and exactly to your specifications. Our promise to you is to provide captioning that exceeds national captioning standards.

CaptionMax is associated with one of the largest all-digital post facilities in the nation, enabling us to offer any additional services your project may require.

CaptionMax combines the best equipment with a talented friendly staff to ensure that you are completely satisfied on every job."

Closed Captioning Web - All kinds of closed captioning information.

Command Corp Inc. - "Speech recognition products."

Computer Centre for People with Disabilities - University of Westminster, London, UK

Cyber Clinic of Roger Park-Cunningham, CSW, ACSW - "Welcome. Here you can learn about some of the the pros and cons of online counseling and therapy, read some cautions about the limitations of this exciting new field, and consider a free consultation to decide if this type of service is appropriate for you. You can also read my resume and you can find some links to other mental health related web sites. Finally, there are some pages that handle the nuts and bolts like, Frequently Asked Questions,bill-paying and Informed Consent."

Deaf World Web - "Deaf World Web is the largest and leading multi-purpose deaf Web site, providing deaf-related information around the world."

Disability Discrimination in Workplace - "Despite increased sensitivity to physical and mental disabilities, many of America's workers find themselves to be victims of employment discrimination due to their disability. The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal law which prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of a "qualified" disability. Employees living with a physical disability have the protection of federal law, not to give them preferential treatment, but to level the playing field. With the protection of the ADA, a worker who, despite a disability, is able to perform the essential functions of his job, is entitled to reasonable accommodation from the employer, if needed. If you feel that you have been a victim of disability discrimination, it is important that you know your legal rights, and the actions you must take to prevent loss of your right to a remedy."

Disaster Mitigation for Persons with Disabilities - "The Annenberg Washington Program provides a neutral forum, open to diverse opinion, for assessing the impact of communications technologies and public policies. This report bridges two of the Program's major areas of inquiry: communications policy in disaster relief and mitigation, and communications and disability policy.

As part of the examination of communications in times of disaster, the Program has worked to promote the effective use of communications technologies and policies to inform the public, save lives, and reduce suffering in the face of tragedy.

The Program first explored the link between communications and disaster mitigation just days after the world learned of the disaster at Chernobyl. Since then the Program has sponsored 10 major meetings and published six reports on the use of communications technologies and media to mitigate natural and complex disasters."

Down Syndrome Resources - "This is the original World Wide Web site composed of contributions from experienced professionals and knowledgeable parents who are subscribers to the Down Syndrome listserv and newsgroup, by the parents of a wonderful son who was diagnosed with Down Syndrome at birth in 1993.

They researched the best information available at that time and discovered that it was difficult to find the most up to date resources, support and information available even with internet connections. Discovering the veteran parents and knowledgeable professionals on the Down Syndrome listserv made a significant difference in the opportunities and support they provided for their charming little boy."

Dragon Systems, Inc. - "...is a leading worldwide supplier of speech and language technology, including award-winning speech recognition software. Dragon's goal is to "humanize" the interface between people and machines by expanding the use of speech, which is the most natural and efficient way for people to communicate. The speech capabilities available from Dragon Systems include continuous and discrete dictation systems, voice command systems, text-to-speech systems, customized telephony solutions, and developer tools which enable users to build interactive dialogues or custom vocabularies that do not need to be retrained."

Educational Funding Strategies - "Grant writing consultants for Non-Profits."

Elwyn, Inc - "Human services organization."

Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - US Department of Labor -

"Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs Administers anti-discrimination provisions pertaining to government contractors and subcontractors.

Office of Labor-Management Standards Administers and enforces provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, as amended (LMRDA), and sections of various other acts (Postal Reorganization Act, Civil Service Reform Act and Foreign Service Act) within the responsibility of the Secretary of Labor. OLMS seeks to promote internal union democracy and financial integrity and to protect the rights of union members. OLMS also administers the Secretary of Labor's statutory responsibilities for the Transit Employee Protection Program and for other employee protection programs.

Office of Workers' Compensation Programs Administers three major disability compensation programs which provide wage replacement benefits, medical treatment, vocational rehabilitation and other benefits to certain workers or their dependents who experience work-related injury or occupational disease.

Wage and Hour Division Administers the wage, hour and child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act as well as several other programs covering farm labor, family and medical leave, immigration and polygraph testing."

1st Impressions - "Resumes and Career Strategy. Disabilities Corner: Employment Disability Q&A's; ADA Employment Fact Sheet; Project ABLE; Resources; etc."

Frontier Computing - "Blind and low vision products."

GPO Access - "GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted. This free service is funded by the Federal Depository Library Program and has grown out of Public Law 103-40, known as the Government Printing Office Electronic Information Enhancement Act of 1993.

The free services of GPO Access fall within the following categories:

Government information databases for your online use.
Individual Federal agency files available for download.
Tools to assist you in finding Government Information.
Collections of Government information available for free use at a library near you.
User Support. "

Gus Communications - "Multimedia speech system."

Handi-Capable Reporter - "Monthly Newsletter."

(The) Institute on Independant Living - "The Institute serves self-help organizations of disabled people who work for equal opportunities, self-determination and self-respect. We provide information, training materials and technical assistance on personal assistance, advocacy, accessibility, legislation and peer support. We publish your articles, reports, manuals or comments and other materials related to Independent Living."

Internet Archive: Building a Digital Library for Future - "Internet Archive is collecting and storing public materials from the Internet such as the World Wide Web, Netnews, and downloadable software which have been donated by Alexa Internet.

The Archive will provide historians, researchers, scholars, and others access to this vast collection of data (reaching ten terabytes), and ensure the longevity of this information."

Journey Out of Silence - "An autobiography by William Rush"

LAB Resources - "LAB Resources is a company which specializes in software and hardware for special needs and education. We are a resource for educators, therapists, and families and offer our products at an educational discount."

Levy & Davis - "Law Firm Specializing in Disability Litigation."

National Institute on Life Planning for Persons with Disabilities - "NILP is a national organization dedicated to promoting transition, life and person centered planning for all persons with disabilities and their families. Because it is a diverse and the only professional membership association made up of teachers, lawyers, planners, social workers, advocates, etc., it provides this special Web page to help families obtain the latest information on transition, life and person centered planning, government benefits, advocacy, guardianship, aging, housing, supported employment, etc.

If you have a disability or if you have responsibility for a person with a disability, you need to make special plans for the future. Begin today! It is too important to delay any longer. NILP is here to help."

National Library Service for Blind & Physically Handicapped - Library of Congress - "Welcome to the Library of Congress page on the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS). NLS administers a free library program of braille and recorded materials circulated to eligible borrowers through a network of cooperating libraries."

National Organization for Albinism & Hypopigmnetation (NOAH) - "This site exists to provide information about albinism and NOAH. It's a place where people with albinism, their families and those that work with them can ask questions and share their experiences. You do not have to be a NOAH member to use this site, ho wever,we encourage you to become a NOAH member to receive meeting announcements and our bi-annual newsletter."

NCSA Mosaic Access Page - "Welcome to the NCSA Mosaic Access Page, a resource for those interested in how people with disabilities can use the internet and the World Wide Web. Development of this page is under the Mosaic Access Project with support from the National Science Foundation. The short term goals of this project are to identify some of the major barriers people with disabilities encounter using NCSA Mosaic. Where feasible, solutions will be designed and implemented.

The long term goals involve issues of access to the internet, the World Wide Web and Multimedia browsers in general. Ongoing retrofit solutions will be developed for Mosaic and barriers inherent to the Web architecture will be identified. Recommendations will be made to appropriate standards groups. Access solutions will be explored with current and emerging technologies.

NCSA Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign."

Neil Squire Foundation - "Programs & Services - Canada

Computer training and skill upgrading
Computer Comfort, BC
Computer Skills Training, SASK

Employment
Creative Employment Options, BC
Creative Employment Options, SASK
Creative Employment Options, NB
Creative Employment Options, ONT

Education
Computer Comfort, BC
Computer Skills Training, SASK
S.A.R.A.W. Literacy Program, SASK
Education Options, NB
Access to Literacy, ONT
Mentorship Program, BC
Consultation and Assessment
Consultation and Assessment in BC
Consultation and Assessment in SASK
Consultation and Assessment in ONT"

Newslink Service - "Online newspapers and magazines."

OHMR, Inc. - "Eighty-percent of your workers' compensation problems are probably being handled just fine... But, it's that 20 percent that's eating your lunch... OHMR specializes in bringing quick and effective resolution to the toughest workers' compensation management problems nationwide. OHMR is an independent management services company. We identify what the issues are that are keeping those problems alive and what you have to do to end them... Then, if you want us to solve it we will, or we will show you how to do it yourself... We assist our customers lower the threshold of what is considered "acceptable losses" and prevent unnecessary profit erosion."

Parents Helping Parents - "The Family Resource Center Meeting children's special needs through parents helping parents."

(For) Parents of Sick and Worn-Out Children - "When your child persistently suffers from pain, fatigue, heat and exercise intolerance, dizziness, nausea, 'cognitive fog,' and other symptoms of Chronic Fatigue and related syndromes, you as a parent have special kinds of problems. This page is devoted to developing and pointing toward help on these problems."

Physical Activity and Disability Group - Loughborough University, U.K. - "Welcome to the internet resources of the Physical Activity & Disability Research Group.

Wheelchair Sports
International Paralympic Committee"

PrairieLaw.com - "...is a virtual community that aims to empower the individual in their quest for justice. To prove to you that the only person that can take control of your legal problems is you. We know that people that grab a hold of the tools available to them via our civil justice system can and do hold those, who have been careless or indifferent, accountable for the harm they may have caused them. Prairielaw.com is as much about the community of professionals and lay people helping each other and the sense of goodwill created, as it is about obtaining justice. You will be amazed by the people you meet and the information you obtain when an entire community of decent folks with a common passion work together."

(The) Rick Hanson Institute - "In August of 1997, the University of British Columbia and Rick Hansen formed the Rick Hansen Institute (RHI), forging the resources and talents of the five legacies from the Man in Motion World Tour: Man in Motion Foundation, the Rick Hansen National Fellow Programme, the Disability Resource Endowment, the Life Skills Motivation Centre and Rick Hansen Enterprises.

The vision of RHI is to remove the barriers that limit people with disabilities from reaching their full potential.

The current strategic focus areas of RHI are to help find a cure for paralysis and to help improve the health and quality of life of people with spinal cord injuries.

RHI provides leadership to the field of disability, with a special emphasis on spinal cord injury, by focusing on four core competency areas:

strategy development and implementation
fund development
fund adjudication and distribution
complete evaluations at all levels and for all initiatives.

RHI is committed to:

generating funds for spinal cord injury;
developing a strong spinal cord injury network;
identifying common objectives within partner and stakeholder groups;
creating, implementing and evaluating innovative strategies that support its goals; and
creating awareness of the needs and issues within the spinal cord injury community.

RHI's major initiatives include the Rick Hansen Neurotrauma Initiative and the Spinal Cord Injury Network."

San Francisco Public Library Home Page - Library Information Resources at SFPL -

"Connect to the SFPL Online System
Search the SFPL Databases using Keywords
Library Hours and Locations
Library News and Information
E-Mail Reference Service."

Synapse - "Synapse adaptive and assistive technologies for productivity enhancement and to mitigate the limitations imposed on people with disabilities.

Synapse in conjunction with Stanford University designs solutions to accomodate individuals with disabilities. The Synapse TAP Workstation is the only solution to provide speech access to any type of computer, totally hands-free. Our ADA Workstation solves problems low vision, blindness and learning disabled users. Please visit our Web site for further information and review our article on Applying Speech Recognition to any type of computer platform."

Tips for negotiating cases with DOJ - "More and more often, in-house counsel for businesses, public entities and non-profits are receiving a call from Washington, D.C. that they hoped would never come, announcing that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating their client for violations of the public access provisions (Titles II or III) of the Americans With Disabilities Act. Sometimes the triggering event is a complaint from a customer, a member of the public, or an advocacy group. It could be a result of audits of blueprints done by DOJ's contractors. Counsel may know or suspect the source, but in many cases the client will not know, and DOJ will seldom say how the complaint arose.

Successfully handling ADA investigations conducted by the DOJ, and resolving these claims in a favorable manner, is somewhat similar to other federal agency investigations (such as EEOC and OSHA), but the differences outnumber the similarities. This is the Department of Justice, not some smaller agency, and special rules apply. The following are a few suggestions."

Tourette Syndrome - "Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterized by tics -- involuntary, rapid, sudden movements or vocalizations that occur repeatedly in the same way. Diagnostic criteria include:

Both multiple motor and one or more vocal tics present at some time, although not necessarily simultaneously;
The occurrence of tics many times a day (usually in bouts) nearly every day or intermittently throughout the span of more than one year;
Periodic changes in the number, frequency, type and location of the tics, and in the waxing and waning of their severity. Symptoms can sometimes disappear for weeks or months at a time;
Onset before the age of 18."

Typing Injuries FAQ's and Links - "(The) Typing Injury FAQ (frequently asked questions) is an educational site provided by the CTD Resource Network - An association of individuals providing information to the RSI community. The TIFAQ contains a wide variety of information about repetitive strain injuries (RSI's), resources for dealing with these ailments, and a broad description of assistive products to reduce injury risk and symptoms. The TIFAQ is primarily targeted towards computer users at risk of injury, however health professionals, researchers, designers, resellers and manufacturers will find a wealth of information of interest. Many of the resources provided here also relate well to other work environments. Reading and following the links below will lead you to all kinds of valuable information, documents, and resources. (see About TIFAQ for more background information.)"

Unicorn Quest - "The Kids' Typing Tutor Game for One or Two Hands. ...lists of many disability related resources. There are literally hundreds of well-organized links. These lists will continue to grow. Individual pages are updated on a weekly basis. For your information and viewing pleasure, I've arranged the resources into a variety of different categories."

U.S. Department of Education - "Some information about disabilities in schools."

Vanduerr Industries - "ADA and Disability Access Compliance Products."

Veterans Employment and Training Service (VETS) - US Department of Labor -

"Information about the Assistant Secretary - Information about the Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training.

What's New - Latest information from Veterans' Employment and Training.

Information about VETS - Information about VETS' organizational structure, mission, history, and key contacts.

Media Releases - A collection of press releases, speeches, and Congressional testimony.

Compliance Assistance Information Reading Room - A collection of Freedom of Information Documents.

Statutory and Regulatory Information - A collection of statutes and regulations relating to VETS.

Information about VETS Programs and Activities - Information about VETS programs and services.

Grants and Contract Awards Information