101. PC Squared: National Discount Distributor For Low Vision Software And Assistive Distributor of low vision and blindness products, including speech software. http://www.pcsquared.com

P ersonal C omputer Products for the Visually P hysically C hallenged PC SQUARED www.pcsquared.com NEVER @ RETAIL Home Products About Contact Welcome to the other PC Squared The mission of PC Squared, founded in 1990 as Circuit Rider Connection, is to provide you with the highest quality adaptive computer products at the lowest possible prices. Our goal is to be the National Discount Distributor for: ZoomText, Dragon NS Pro, Window-Eyes, TripleTalk, JAWBone, etc. About PC Squared - Information about PC Squared Products - Products from PC Squared ZoomText Writing Guides, RollerMouse Contact us - Information to contact us Home Products About Contact Purchase Orders are welcomed from Government, Call or E-mail for Net Terms or personal check approval. We also accept cash or PayPal. PC Squared 2914 Russell Ave N Minneapolis MN 55411-1068 Phone (612) 588-7019, (888) 588-7019, FAX (612) 588-6700 E-mail: help@pcsquared.com Site design by the BT Crew-ser

102. Fight For Sight A nonprofit organization funding fellowships and grants for vision research and children's eye clinics in the U.S. and internationally to prevent blindness and find cures for all eye diseases. http://fightforsight.com

103. BLINDNESS By Jose Saramago blindness. I believe I lean much more to this notion that we are to understand blindness not as an allegory, but as an exploration of an alternative reality. http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/personal/reading/saramago-blindness.html

BLINDNESS By Jose Saramago. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero from the 1995 Ensaio sombre a Cegueira. 309 pages London: The Harvill Press, 1997 ISBN: 0-15-136700-9 Comments of Bob Corbett October 2001 Also appended remarks from George Snedeker December 2001 How are we to imagine a world in which some central part of our meaning system suddenly disappears? I've played with the idea in thinking about having survived an atomic war which destroyed most humans, and all the basic infrastructures of everyday life. The problems one runs into even in such a game of imagination is to be consistent and being able to step far enough away to see what it is that really changes. In my day-dreaming imaginings I never went so far as to even dare to consider the inner changes in my person or the other survivors around me. It was much more than I could do to even anticipate and manage the physical problems of change and how to deal with them. Jose Saramago presents us with exactly such a problematic, yet his masterful analysis deals not only with the physical aspects of change and how his characters deal with them, but he inters into the psychological realm and astounds us with his insights and brilliance. A man is sitting at a traffic light one day waiting for the light to turn green and he suddenly goes blind. This is the "first blind man." Slowly this mysterious form of blindness, the like not known in the literature of modern medicine, spreads to the whole nation. As best we know, there is only one sighted person left in the realm. We follow a cast of fewer than 10 characters in detail. We have no names, only descriptors. After all one character tells us "blind people need no names." There is the first blind man, the first blind man's wife. The blind man had a seeming good semaritan who helps him home and but then steals his car and is thus called the man who had stole the car. There is the doctor whom he consults and the doctor's wife, the girl with dark glasses, the boy with the squint and the man with the black eye patch. There are a few others, but these become our key characters, later on adding the dog of tears.

104. Deaf-Blindness Information Deafblindness Information Web Page. Webmaster Ed Keller. (Facts about Deaf-blindness, Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adult (HKNC).). http://www.as.wvu.edu/~scidis/deaf-blindness.html

Deaf-Blindness Information Web Page Webmaster Ed Keller Table of Contents: Introduction General Strategies Introduction People who are deaf-blind have problems of communication, mobility and other daily living skills that are unique and make independent living more dificult to achieve. It can be a dark, silent and isolating world. The term "deaf-blind" doesn't necessarily mean total lack of hearing and vision. Some people who are deaf-blind are partially "hearing and visually impaired." They may have enough hearing to understand speech, especially when using a hearing aid, and may have some usable vision with or without corrective lenses. "Legal blindness" is defined as the ability to see at a distance of 20 feet what a normally sighted person can see at 200 feet , or to have peripheral vision that is restricted to 20 degrees or less (like tunnel vision). However deaf-blindness does mean that the combination of impairments of both senses interferes with the ability of a person to function effectively in the "hearing-sighted" world. ( Facts about Deaf-Blindness , Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adult (HKNC).)

105. Duke University Eye Center > ENVISION A World Without Blindness! Flash presentation on the research at the Duke University Eye Center to eliminate blindness. http://www.dukeeye.org/envision/index.html

= 0) document.write(""); else document.write(""); //> ENVISION: Presentation Home ENVISION a world without blindness! Thank you for your interest in our vision to eliminate blindness! please Visit the ENVISION presentation (Flash plug-in required) If you know for sure that you do not have the Flash plug-in, please download it for free: download Shockwave now! Questions or comments? Contact us! Site forged by the websmiths @ CrossComm, Inc.

106. A Philosophy Of Blindness A Blind Net. A Philosophy Of blindness. The reason is simple, how you view blindness will determine your reaction to being blind or to those of us who are blind. http://www.blind.net/bphiloso.htm

A Blind Net A Philosophy Of Blindness At first glance it might seem strange to have a section about a philosophy of blindness, however I think it is an extremely important topic to cover. The reason is simple, how you view blindness will determine your reaction to being blind or to those of us who are blind. There are as many ":philosophies" of blindness as there are people so obviously I won't be trying to cover EVERY point here. What I want to do is present you with some ideas about what blindness is, a positive outlook if you will, and thereby let you know what blindness DOES NOT NEED TO BE. Whether we think about it or not we all have a philosophy of blindness. It determines how we treat blind people and how we think about ourselves if we are or become blind. Of course one question to answer is who is blind ? Then there's the ":sensitive": question of what do you call someone who is blind ? My short answer would be blind, but God help us some people are offended by that "nasty five letter word." So here are some discussions about different aspects of blindness, incidents that have happened to blind people and the affects of different philosophies of blindness.

107. Division Of Parasitic Diseases - River Blindness Factsheet and press releases concerning the disease. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/riverblindness/

Alphabetical Listing Travel River Blindness Filariasis Onchocerciasis Other Links The Carter Center Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Implementation of Health Initiatives During a Cease-Fire-Sudan, 1995 (June 16, 1995/Vol. 44/No. 23) Global Disease Elimination and Eradication as Public Health Strategies (December 31, 1999 / Vol. 48 / Supplement) Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Resurgent Vector-Borne Diseases as a Global Health Problem (Vol. 4/No. 3 July-September 1998) Top Home Professional Info Public Info ... CDC Health Topics A-Z This page last reviewed December 9, 2003 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Infectious Diseases Division of Parasitic Diseases

108. Banner Blindness, Human Cognition And Web Design ( Jnd.org ) Banner blindness, human cognition, and web design by Don Norman of the Nielsen Norman Group. Banner blindness, Human Cognition and Web Design. http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/Banner_Blindness.html

Books Essays Interviews Recommended Readings Press Kit home ... essays Banner Blindness, Human Cognition and Web Design ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN INTERNETWORKING, MARCH 1999 Benway and Lane have studied "Banner Blindness" (ITG Newsletter, Dec. 1998: 1.3) – the fact that people tend to ignore those big, flashy, colorful banners at the top of web pages. This is pretty interesting stuff, for the entire reason they are so big and obnoxious is to attract attention, yet they fail. Evidently nobody ever studied real users before – they simply assumed that big, colorful items were visible. This paper, shows once again the importance of observations over logic when it comes to predicting human behavior. People behave the way they behave, not the way our logical analyses and wishes would have them behave. People follow their interests, their needs, their customs. They are driven by curiosity, boredom, emotion. And the "they" refers to "we": us. Benway and Lane showed that if something is too obvious, too big, too powerful, it is overlooked (a point well known to Sherlock Holmes, by the way – or perhaps more precisely, known to Conan Doyle). What Benway and Lane found was this. Suppose a designer wants to make sure that people browsing a site can find "important-information." The designer carefully makes the link to "important-information" big, bold, colorful. Nobody could possibly miss it. Lo and behold, Benway and Lane showed, it was the rare individual who noticed that this bold and salient banner contained the information being sought.

109. Sight Savers International - Saving Sight - Saving Sight In The Developing World UK's leading charity working to prevent and cure blindness in developing countries and bring hope to people who will never see again. http://www.sightsavers.org.uk/html/savingsight/default.htm?treatments/glaucoma.h

110. Vision International Eye Missions, A Public Nonprofit Charity, Combats Unncessar Nonprofit organization dedicated to find blindness via building and improving eye centers and providing training to eye doctors in underserved areas and the developing world. http://www.vision-international.org

e-mail to a friend: Vision International Eye Missions is a non-profit Foundation based in Santa Rosa, California that is dedicated to the preservation of sight at home and abroad. It is a public charity with IRS status of a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization. Madagascar Eye Clinic The Sambava Lions completed building and equipping the Madagascar Eye Clinic. This Clinic is now functional. Vision International Eye Missions is providing all the surgical and medical supplies. See How You Can Help! Laser Treatment in Madagascar Mr. Eckert will be flying to Madagascar on January 19th to setup the newly arrived Treatment Lasers. Following the next month, on February 28th, Dr. Tamara Suslov will fly out to inaugurate the laser setup and train the ophthalmologists to use them. See Accomplishments! New Vision International Fellows are training in India.

111. Disability Advice Centre Fact Sheet - Colour Blindness 4page Royal Mail (UK) pdf about the disability. Includes useful URLs. http://www.consignia.com/dac/factsheets/colour_blindness.pdf

112. The Blind Readers' Page A source of information about books and reading, blindness and other disabilities and library services for the blind and physically handicapped. http://blindreaders.info/

THE BLIND READERS' PAGE This site is a guide to sources of information in alternative formats (braille, recorded cassettes, large print, e-texts, web audio) accessible by people with print disabilitiesthose with visual and physical handicaps as well as dyslexia. It is also a guide to information about blindness, visual handicaps and other physical handicaps, with a special collection of Wisconsin resources. There are about 2,300 individual links, all evaluated, annotated and organized by subject. INFORMATION SOURCES IN ACCESSIBLE FORMATS BRAILLE BOOKS AND MUSIC BRAILLE AND OTHER WRITING SYSTEMS BRAILLE INSTRUCTION FOR SIGHTED PEOPLE/BRAILLE LITERACY TACTILE MAPS AND GRAPHICS ... WISCONSIN REGIONAL LIBRARY FOR THE BLIND AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED : downloadable application form and brochure, reading lists, newsletters, Newsline application. ADAPTIVE COMPUTERS ADAPTIVE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTION/TUTORIALS FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE INDEX TO ADAPTIVE COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ... MAILING LISTS AND E-MAIL ABOUT BLINDNESS AND VISUAL HANDICAPS EYE DISEASES AND CONDITIONS STATISTICS ON BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS DEAF-BLINDNESS DYSLEXIA ... MEGASITES ORGANIZATIONS NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS WISCONSIN ORGANIZATIONS INTERNATIONAL LIBRARIES AND ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE BLIND ACTIVITIES FOR PARENTS OF BLIND AND VISUALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN BOOKS AND WEB SITES ORGANIZATIONS EDUCATIONAL ISSUES ... RELIGION: CHURCHES, SERVICES, SCRIPTURES, DEVOTIONS

113. Inattentional Blindness: An Overview By Arien Mack & Irvin Rock attention. 8. Inattentional blindness. A perceived? These and other questions set our research agenda. 10. Inattention blindness at Fixation. The http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v5/psyche-5-03-mack.html

Inattentional Blindness may be purchased from Amazon.Com Inattentional Blindness Arien Mack Department of Psychology New School for Social Research USA mackarie@newschool.edu and Irvin Rock Department of Psychology University of California, Berkeley USA PSYCHE, 5(3), May, 1999 http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v5/psyche-5-03-mack.html KEYWORDS: vision, attention, perception, consciousness, inattentional blindness. CHAPTER ONE of Arien Mack and Irvin Rock (1998) Inattentional Blindness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1. Motivation for the Research What is the relationship between attention and perception? How much, if anything, of our visual world do we perceive when we are not attending to it? Are there only some kinds of things we see when we are not attending? If there are, do they fall into particular categories? Do we see them because they have captured our attention or because our perception of them is independent of our attention? Most people have the impression that they simply see what is there and do so merely by opening their eyes and looking. Of course, we may look more closely at some things than at others, which is what we ordinarily mean by "paying attention," but it probably seems to many people as if we see nearly everything in our field of view. There is an opposite experience that also raises questions about the relation between perception and attention. When we are intently awaiting something, we often see and hear things that are not there. For example, many people have had the experience of hearing footsteps or seeing someone who is anxiously awaited even though theperson is not there, and there are no footsteps. On these occasions, it is as if our intense expectation and riveted attention create or at least distort a perceptual object. Here, instead of not seeing (or hearing) what is there when we are distracted, we are seeing (or hearing) what is not there, or perhaps more accurately, misperceiving what may actually be there, but which we are anxiously awaiting. Both experiences appear to implicate attention in the act of perceiving. This kind of experience was eloquently described by William James.

114. Home Page Features disease information, contacts, programs, and history of the disease. http://www.worldbank.org/gper/

Riverblindness , or Onchocerciasis , is a disease widespread in Africa. It causes blindness, disfigurement, and unbearable itching in its victims, and has rendered large tracts of farmland in Africa uninhabitable. The Onchocerciasis Control Programme ( OCP ) was created in 1974 with two primary objectives. The first is the elimination of onchocerciasis as a public health problem and as an obstacle to socioeconomic development throughout an eleven-country area: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo. The second is to leave participating countries in a position to maintain this achievement by enhancing national capacity to maintain control of the disease. The Programme is sponsored by four agencies: the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Bank, and the World Health Organization (WHO). OCP is widely recognized as one of the most successful multi-donor programsin the short history of development assistance. It has now halted transmission and virtually eliminated prevalence of the disease, onchocerciasis (Riverblindness), throughout the 11-country subregion containing 35 million people. Through donations of Mectizan by its manufacturer, Merck and Co, Inc., as well as financial support from a large pool of donors, OCP is fully funded through its conclusion in 2002.

115. General Information - Blindness blindness. independence. Pets, however, compensate very well and are free of the psychic trauma we associate with blindness. Their http://mesavet.com/library/blindness.htm

Blindness General Information Because we, as people, place such great value on eyesight, we are deeply concerned and saddened when we discover a pet is blind. In people, loss of vision brings a loss of a certain amount of independence. Pets, however, compensate very well and are free of the psychic trauma we associate with blindness. Their senses of smell, hearing and touch allow them to perceive their surroundings much better than a blind person. Special Concerns Working or hunting dogs should be retired to a more restricted life. You must decide whether the dog will be acceptable as a pet. Pets that were nippy or anxious when they could see may present problems after they have become blind. Such individuals generally remain nervous, and the risk of biting may increase, especially when small children are involved. As long as your pet remains in a familiar environment, it can navigate very well. Also, pets can generally adapt to changes in their environment if necessary. Whatever the circumstances, please feel free to discuss any concerns you might have with your veterinarian. They understand your feelings, and will respect your final decision on whether or not you wish to keep your pet as a family member.

116. Trachoma Brief, technical clinical definition. Leading cause of blindness worldwide, and afflicts over 400 million people; preventable with adequate diet, proper sanitation, and education. http://www.spedex.com/resource/documents/veb/trachoma.html

TRACHOMA DESCRIPTION: A form of bilateral keratoconjunctivitis which causes corneal scarring; at its onset, it resembles conjunctivitis with symptoms of tearing, photophobia, pain, swelling of the eyelids, and superior keratitis; as it passes through four stages, the conjunctival tissues become follicular, heal, and finally scar. Lacrimal glands and ducts are often affected as well; the upper lid may turn inward and the lashes then abrade the cornea; corneal ulceration results, becomes infected, and ultimately scars. When scarring is extensive, blindness results. The disease is spread by contact; flies and gnats may also transmit it. TREATMENT: If treated early (with antibiotics, usually tetracycline drugs or sulfonamides), the prognosis is excellent. Untreated, it can cause blindness. IMPLICATIONS: This disease is one the earliest recorded eye diseases; it was identified as early as the 27th century B.C. It is the leading cause of blindness worldwide, and afflicts over 400 million people (primarily in underdeveloped countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia). It is preventable with adequate diet, proper sanitation, and education. It is rare in the United States. Back to Contents or Back to SpEdEx Home

117. BUBL LINK / 5:15 Internet Resources: Blindness Author William Graczyk Subjects blindness DeweyClass 362.4 ResourceType index Location usa Last checked 20001110 blindness Resource Centre Documents and http://bubl.ac.uk/link/b/blindness.htm

BUBL LINK / 5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources Home Search Subject Menus A-Z ... About Blindness See also: eyes A-Z Index Titles Descriptions Betsie: BBC Education Text to Speech Internet Enhancer Blind Readers Page Blindness Resource Centre Braille It ... Topica: Health Page last updated: 17 March 2003 Comments: bubl@bubl.ac.uk Betsie: BBC Education Text to Speech Internet Enhancer Betsie is software (a Perl script) which is intended to make it easier for people using text to speech systems for Web browsing. It rearranges the content of Web pages, renders text in a large, clear font, makes all frames horizontal, removes all table related tags, removes Javascript, and carries out numerous other operations. Most BBC pages are accessible via Betsie, but results from other pages are less reliable. Author: BBC Subjects: blindness, speech processing DeweyClass: ResourceType: service, software Location: uk Last checked: Blind Readers Page Listing of information sources for the blind which offer material in a range of formats such as Braille, recorded cassettes, large print, and electronic texts. Also features links to national organisations, adaptive computer technology suppliers, government agencies, information on guide dogs and mobility, audio books, tactile maps and graphics, and greeting cards. Author: William Graczyk Subjects: blindness DeweyClass: ResourceType: index Location: usa Last checked: Blindness Resource Centre Documents and links to Internet blindness resources. Headings include Braille history, literacy, translators and advocacy, deaf-blind, other disabilities, eye conditions, organisations and research news.

118. An Overview Of Retinitis Pigmentosa Information on night blindness, including the relationship between retinal degenerative diseases and the retina as well as basics on genetics and heredity. http://www.geocities.com/retinitis_pigmentosa_rp

Retinitis Pigmentosa var site="sm5retinitis" An overview of retinitis pigmentosa (RP) Retinitis pigmentosa is a group of hereditary diseases that causes the degeneration of the retina. Often called night blindness, retinitis pigmentosa may develop in a family where either one parent or both parents are affected or where there is seemingly no familial history of the disease. In other cases, RP is observed in only the males of the family. Typically, symptoms start in childhood and early adolescents. They include decreased ability to see in dim light such as movie theaters or ball games, night blindness and bumping into or tripping over objects. There may also be loss of color vision and the inability to focus or see objects in detail. The symptoms experienced depend entirely on the type of retinitis pigmentosa. Long-term affects of RP include so called 'tunnel vision'. This loss of peripheral vision is usually gradual, reducing the visual field to a narrow area of the eye, directly in front of the individual. In many cases, people with retinitis pigmentosa are considered 'legally blind' by the time they're 40. In cases where retinitis pigmentosa and hearing loss or deafness occur, there is a chance of Ushers Syndrome. Ushers Syndrome is an inherited disease affecting 3-6 % of the deaf and is usually diagnosed in childhood.

119. The Church And Blindness News and information on the groups work to make religious materials available to the blind. Based in the UK. http://www.church4blind.org.uk

The Church and Blindness Registered Charity No. 1078425 - campaigning for large-print books in pews recognition for the charity's work from The Prince of Wales - read more inside read the words of support from the Archbishop inside WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPONSOR A WELSH TRANSLATION? Please contact vip@church4blind.org.uk Our new unframed site can be heard in English by blind people or displayed via a Braillepad. For text to voice software, try IBM's Home Page Reader, or Window Eyes click here to explore our unframed site alternatively, click on the buttons below for the framed site in: English French German Spanish ... Italian ALL ARE AVAILABLE IN 4 FONT SIZES AND 3 BACKGROUND COLOURS FOR EASE OF USE BY PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE The website is now available in Braille. Free for VIP without a PC Free via e-mail or post to V.I.P's Dippers, Water Lane, Charlton Horethorne, Sherborne, DORSET why not join our 2004, 2005 and 2006 site sponsors?

120. This Page Has Moved !!! www.sandia.gov/itg/newsletter/mar99/commentary.html bbc.co.uk Health - Men s Health - Colour blindness Men s Health - Physical health. Colour blindness by Dr Rob Hicks What is it? Colour blindness is the reduced ability to distinguish between certain colours. http://www.sandia.gov/itg/newsletter/dec98/banner_blindness.html

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