161. CNN.com - Study: Smoking Raises Risk Of Blindness - Mar. 5, 2004 CNN http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/conditions/03/05/smoking.blindness.reut/index.html

International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Services CNNtoGO Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com Study: Smoking raises risk of blindness Story Tools RELATED Early exams may prevent common vision loss HEALTH LIBRARY Health Library Macular degeneration YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Follow the news that matters to you. Create your own alert to be notified on topics you're interested in. Or, visit Popular Alerts for suggestions. Manage alerts What is this? LONDON, England (Reuters) Smokers are up to four times more likely than non-smokers to develop a disease that is the leading cause of adult blindness, public health experts said in the British Medical Journal on Friday. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is an irreversible and progressive illness that robs people of their sight. Although its causes are unknown, evidence from three large studies shows smokers have a higher risk of suffering from it. "Smokers are three to four times as likely to develop AMD," Richard Edwards, a public health expert at Manchester University, told Reuters. In Britain an estimated one in five cases of AMD are attributable to smoking. AMD caused by smoking has impaired the sight of about 54,000 people and blinded nearly 18,000.

162. Millions Of Americans At Risk For Vision Loss, Blindness CNN http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/conditions/04/12/vision.impairment.ap/index.html

163. CNN.com - Corn Hybrids To Fight Blindness, Birth Defects - Oct. 16, 2003 CNN http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/diet.fitness/10/16/corn.nutrition.ap/index.html

The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-Mail Services CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com Corn hybrids to fight blindness, birth defects Story Tools DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Plant scientists are working to develop corn fortified with beta carotene to help fight blindness, birth defects and malnutrition in developing nations. HEALTH LIBRARY Health Library YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Follow the news that matters to you. Create your own alert to be notified on topics you're interested in. Or, visit Popular Alerts for suggestions. Manage alerts What is this? The research, under way at Iowa State University in Ames, also involves identifying known hybrids high in beta carotene. The substance is converted by the human body into vitamin A, which is essential for vision, cell division and growth. "Corn is a good way of delivering vitamin A because you to deliver it with fats and oils that help in its uptake," said Stephen Howell, director of the university's Plant Sciences Institute. The project has two components: Geneticist Steve Rodermel will lead a team in developing the new corn varieties and nutrition expert Wendy White will examine how vitamin A enrichment works. "The crucial question is how much the beta carotene needs to be increased in this corn kernel," White said in a statement. "To answer this question, we first have to understand how much of the beta carotene is absorbed by the body and converted into vitamin A to meet daily requirements."

164. Fortified Peanut Butter May Help Fight Childhood Blindness CNN http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/diet.fitness/04/25/fortified.pb.ap/index.html

165. CNN.com - Could Bionic Eye End Blindness? - June 13, 2002 CNN http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/06/13/bionic.eye/index.html

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166. New Ways To Save Preemies From Blindness CNN http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/parenting/10/25/preemie.blindness.ap/index.html

167. CNN.com - Health - Plan Underway To Squash Preventable Blindness Disease - Decem CNN http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/12/04/health.trachoma.reut/index.html

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168. CNN - Webcast Aims To Raise Awareness Of Blindness As Global Problem - October 1 CNN http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9910/14/worldsightday/index.html

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169. Colorblind Web Page Filter View your actual web pages through the eyes of visitors with three different types of color blindness. http://colorfilter.wickline.org/

Colorblind Web Page Filter I'd like to express my appreciation to pair.com for donating a dedicated server to host this utility. As soon as I've secured employment in Portland (Oregon) and finished with all of the house purchasing and cross-continent moving craziness, I'll be porting the tool to . In the mean time, jpg/png processing and the handling of arbitrary file extensions may be disabled on occasion, and the maximum file size (currently at 100KB) may be adjusted in order to reduce server load. Potential employers may request a private demo of an unlimited version if interested. The development of additional filtering features (JavaScript, SVG, Flash, etc) will be on hold until my life settles down a bit. This tool is still under active development. Some features may not work at all. Documentation has not yet been created. However, you're welcome to use the tool while I work on it. If you have any feedback, please let me know . If you only use one filter, use the grayscale filter which will not only point out potential problem areas, but will also let you see more clearly which areas the filter is unable to process. While this color filter will show your existing web site through color blind eyes, you can save time by using the

170. Visualise - Alpha Squared Solutions Ltd. Allows people to see websites the way people with various visual impairments do. Currently it covers varying degrees of colour blindness, diabetic retinopathy, cataracts, macular degeneration and glaucoma. http://www.a2solutions.co.uk/visualise.htm

Main Menu Skip Navigation Home About us Services ... Contact Introduction This tool allows people to see websites the way people with various visual impairments do. Currently it covers varying degrees of colour blindness, diabetic retinopathy, cataracts, macular degeneration and glaucoma. This tool was developed to make people aware of the issues around website accessibility and the difficulties faced by people with visual impairments. More information on how to use the tool can be found below. Warning! Due to the limitations of current browser technology this page does not comply with the WAI Web Accessibility Guidelines and can only be viewed on Windows Internet Explorer version 5.5 and above. Visualisation Tool Please select a site to view: Colour Blindness: The Colour Blindness filter only works if the page viewed below has been selected via the URL field above. The page cannot be changed while this filter is used. The filters below does allow interaction with the site via the keyboard, but not using the mouse. The colour blindness will be reset to 0% before applying the other filters. Colour blindness can be re-applied after a filter below had been selected. Click on the following buttons to toggle each type of disability: Diabetic Retinopathy Cataracts (Affects the whole page) For the following two disabilities, click on the image overlay and move the mouse to view different portions of the website.

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172. Vischeck: Home User quotes This is an AMAZINGLY USEFUL tool! I ma web designer and my company specializes in designing pages that are accessible to the handicapped. http://www.vischeck.com/

Home Vischeck Daltonize Examples Downloads ... People User quotes: Very cool! I've always wondered exactly what colors and what depth of color color blind people could see. It's not as bad as I expected, but still rather bland. Almost like wearing amber-colored sunglasses. Thanks for sharing and informing!!! -Heather Vischeck simulates colorblind vision. Daltonize corrects images for colorblind viewers. Want to know what we're up to? Join our mailing list . Contact: info@vischeck.com . Last modified 2003-Feb-19 19:15 GMT. And now a word from our sponsor...

173. Vischeck: VischeckURL User quotes I was just writing to let you guys know how wonderfull the vischeck engine is! Now my familly and friends know why http://www.vischeck.com/vischeckURL.php3

Home Vischeck Run Images Run Webpages Daltonize Examples Downloads FAQ ... People User quotes: I have always been interested in colorblindness because my grandfather, brother, and I are all protanopes. I have seen various simulations of colorblindness, but never one that works for me as well as vischeck does. -Dr. Neil C. Try Vischeck on a Webpage Select the type of color vision to simulate: Deuteranope (a form of red/green color deficit) Protanope (another form of red/green color deficit) Tritanope (a blue/yellow deficit- very rare) Enter the URL of any webpage- eg. www.google.com URL: Notes: Vischeck URL is still under development. We know that it will fail on many websites. For example, it won't work with sites that do an immediate redirect, use Macromedia Flash, or use certain javascript operations. Frames may also cause problems, but you can run each frame separately to get around this. Style sheets are crudely supported but beware that many variants will give incorrect results. We are currently working on a new version to fix many of these issues, but our day-jobs keep getting in the way or a firm release date. But maybe sometime in late 2004. Processing some pages takes some time- please be patient!

174. Blind Related Links Welcome to Blind Links. Click on the name of the areas you would like to visit Or Just browse down the page. http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/rblind.html

Welcome to Blind Links Click on the name of the areas you would like to visit: Or Just browse down the page. Adaptive Technology Advocacy and Training Books and Magazines Commercial ... Blind U.S. Veterans E-Mail Ron Marriage with any comments or suggestions. If you wish to make a link to this site on your own home page then you have my permission to do so. Thanks for stopping in. WWW by E-Mail: Anyone not having World Wid Web access, but does have internet email can still access this and other pages by email alone. To access text only versions of web pages send an email to: agora@www.undp.org and into the body of the message type the line: send url where url is the page you want sent to you, such as this page: send http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/rblind.html My URL: http://welcome.to/blindlinks I got it for free at http://come.to THE SPEECH FRIENDLY WEB RING This Speech Friendly Web Ring site was created by: Ron Marriage Want to join the Speech Friendly Web Ring Skip Prev Prev Next ... List Sites Items of Note Speech Friendly Ribbon Award Internet Accessable for the disabled Lynx Enhanced Page Best Viewed with Any Browser Campaign ... Ron.Marriage

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