21. Major Causes Of Blindness Major causes of blindness. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

22. Blindness Resource Center: A Service Of The New York Institute For Special Educa The blindness Resource Center has thousands of links related to braille, eyeconditions, vendors and access technology for the blind and visually impaired. http://www.nyise.org/blind.htm

Our Sponsors: (This site is also available in a text version ,and large print format Universal Access: Lynx, Windows Resource Sites on Blindness BRL Literacy, Translators, Advocacy ... Bobby is a free web-based service that will help you make web pages accessible to people with disabilities. Featured site in Lightspan's StudyWeb For additional information contact: The New York Institute for Special Education attn: Office of Development 999 Pelham Parkway Bronx, New York 10469 USA Phone: (718) 519-7000 Ext. 315 Fax: (718) 231-9314 Return to Index Visitor # since 3/1/98 LE FastCounter Comments and/or suggestions on this site can be addressed to: John Hernandez, Media Coordinator-NYISE last revised July 2002

23. Q42 Color Blindness Check View your website as someone with color blindness would. Appears to work only in IE. Bookmarklet available. http://www.q42.nl/demos/colorblindnesssimulator/

Home Products Projects Research Demos Contact 1 in 12 people suffer from some sort of color deficiency CBC: Color Blindness Check For this little tool we got our inspiration from Cal Henderson , who made a page showing the effects several types of color blindness can have on the readability of a web site. We thought Cal did a nice job and since we are doing two projects where accessibility for people with a disability is a major issue, we thought we might add a little of our own to his work. CBC is a little tool we made for people to test their webpages with. It re-colorizes any webpage you like into a palette that closely resembles the typical palette available to a person having a red/green color vision deficiency. (This is the most common color blindness. Comparing Cal Henderson's data, it comes closest to Protanopia.) Below we describe two ways to use CBC. Both require Internet Explorer 5.0 or more on a Windows PC. There is some chance that even then CBC will not work... in that case you need to install the latest DirectX drivers. CBC as a tool Click here to run CBC CBC as a bookmarklet If you add CBS to your bookmarks you can decide at any moment to check a page.

24. Growing Strong In Heart And Mind Provides articles and links to information about the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual impact of blindness. http://blindness.growingstrong.org

GROWING STRONG IN HEART AND MIND HURRICANE HELP Please take a moment to consider what you can do to help people living in hurricane-prone areas as you visit this site. Read Sarah's story about her experiences living in Florida during the fall of 2004, and learn how hurricanes affect people with disabilities and people who live in poverty and what you can do to help. Introduction This site is designed with two purposes in mind: 1. to provide encouragement to people who are dealing with mental illness. I have dealt with it in my life as well as observed as friends have dealt with it in theirs. I also have my BA in psychology and plan to go into pastoral counseling. While this does not give me the qualifications to offer professional counseling, it has given me some basic knowledge of how research is conducted, how to find the information I want, and what the various mental illnesses are. I hope to help other people to understand what they are going through and to know that there is hope and help. 2. I hope to help therapists by providing a patient's perspective on issues which are not often discussed and to raise questions which may provoke additional research or discussion. Part of helping others obtain the help they need is helping therapists understand the issues their clients face. There is a lot more to the average client than is in the textbooks, and I am sure that therapists know this. Of course, I wouldn't advocate getting rid of the textbooks and scientific studies. However, I do advocate listening to the perspectives of clientsyours or someone else'sbecause they are equally valuable in determining whether or not a given type of therapy hits the mark.

25. What Is Blindness? Legal blindness is visual acuity of not greater than 20/200 in the better eye with best correction or a visual field of less than 20 degrees. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

26. Blindness Resource Center: Access To The Internet And Web Access to the Internet by persons with blindness or visual impairment withaccessible web design, lynx, nettamer, emacspeak, UltraSonix, and XWindows. http://www.nyise.org/access.htm

Access to the Internet, Web and Windows Accessible Web Design LYNX Web Browser Unix Access Windows Access ... Other Blindness Links THIS PAGE IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN: Text, Large Print and Frames Format GO TO: Blindness Resource Center Accessible Web Design WGBH'S NATIONAL CENTER FOR ACCESSIBLE MEDIA WAI Quick Tips Reference Card Adaptive Technology for the Internet : Making Electronic Resources Accessible to All - is a handbook for accessability at Amazon.com. Accessible Web Page Design Links from the disABILITY website Accessibility Home Page : at Microsoft Design Considerations: An excellently written essay on accessible web design for persons with visual impairments. Designing an Accessible Web: Trace Center Site Hints for designing accessible Websites - RNIB Resources on Web Access from The Adaptive Technology Resource Centre of University of Toronto Royal National Institute for the Blind's Campaign for Good Web Design Usability of Information and the WWW: UCLA Disabilities and Computing Program Return to Access Index LYNX Web Browser Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100 terminals, vt100 emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other "curses-oriented" display). It will display hypertext markup language (HTML) hypertext documents containing links to files residing on the local system, as well as files residing on remote systems running Gopher, HTTP, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP servers. Current versions of Lynx run on DOS, UNIX and VMS.

27. Action For Blind People - Helping Blind And Partially Sighted And UK charity. Site contains a good range of information covering the practical aspects of dealing with visual impairment and blindness. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

28. Blindness Resource Center A Service Of The New York Institute For The blindness Resource Center has thousands of links related to braille, eye conditions, vendors and access technology for the blind and visually http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

29. Moved — Yellow Book: Diseases: River Blindness | CDC Travelers' Health Brief information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/oncho.htm

Home About CDC Press Room Funding ... Contact Us Search: Travelers' Health Travelers' Health Home Yellow Book The page "Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)" has been moved. Please click here to go to the current page. Date: June 21, 2005 Content Source: National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine Destinations Vaccinations Diseases Yellow Book ... References and Resources Travelers' Health Automated Information Line PHONE: 877-FYI-TRIP toll free (Information about our fax service, ordering the Yellow Book and International Certificates of Vaccination, and voice messages about disease outbreaks) CDC to Streamline Voice/Fax Services (Released September 7) VIA EMAIL: Contact Us Form FAX: Toll Free (Any info available by fax is also posted on this site.) Home Policies and Regulations e-Government FOIA ... and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, U.S.A Tel: (404) 639-3311 / Public Inquiries: (404) 639-3534 / (800) 311-3435

30. AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND Helpful Resources Resources and information about braille, education, technology, and blindness. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

31. Fight For Sight Information about the work and fundraising efforts of charity supporting research into blindness. http://www.fightforsight.org.uk/

Home Register Accessibility Links ... Events Every 5 seconds one person in the world will go blind Every 15 minutes in the UK someone starts to lose his or her sight. By the time you have read this one person in the world will have gone blind. For 40 years now Fight for Sight has been at the forefront of research into the prevention of blindness and treatment of eye disease in the UK. We've made considerable progress but there's still so much to be done. Thanks to Fight for Sight major medical advances have been made possible. However the fight against eye disease is far from over. With your help we can work towards our vision of a future free from the fear of sight loss. From the very latest developments in eye research to information on Fight for Sight events, publications and other activities - you'll find it all in our latest news publications and facts and figures sections. Without the help of our supporters our vital research simply could not happen. Fight for Sight launches new range of Christmas cards. To order online click here Make a donation Fight for Sight launches major 40th anniversary appeal for 2005 Sponsorship Find out how your company can benefit from supporting us What's new?

32. National Eye Institute [NEI] NEI, of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, conducts and supports vision research. Information on eye diseases and disorders, press releases http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

33. Action For Blind People - Helping Blind And Partially Sighted And Visually Impai UK charity. Site contains a good range of information covering the practical aspects of dealing with visual impairment and blindness. http://www.afbp.org/

News/Campaigns Support Us Information Employment ... Work for Us Welcome to Action for Blind People Action for Blind People is a national charity that provides practical support to blind and partially sighted people through work, housing, leisure and support. Our vision is quite simple. We believe in a world where people who are blind or partially sighted are enabled to actively participate in society and have equal access to the choices and opportunities that so many take for granted. Action for Blind People is more than just a name; it is what we do. National Freephone Helpline: 0800 915 4666 Action for Blind People is now able to offer legal advice to visually impaired people and people with other serious disabilities through their online Legal Helpline. The Helpline comprises a number of the country’s leading law firms who deal with legal queries on employment, housing, education, community care, health services, DDA, personal injury and clinical negligence. Action's National Freephone Helpline 0800 915 4666 (9-5 Mon-Fri) or email info@afbp.org or complete the online enquiry form

34. What Is Blindness? What is blindness and Visual Impairment? http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

35. Ishihara Test For Color Blindness Tests for color blindness Ishihara. An individual with Red/Green (the mostcommon) color blindness will see a 2 revealed in the dots. http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html

Ishihara Test for Color Blindness Main Page About Color Deficiency Tests for Color Blindness Shareware software for the color blind ... Links to other Sites about Color Deficiency What numbers do you see revealed in the patterns of dots below? I am color blind, as is about 12 - 20 percent (depending on whose figures you want to believe) of the white, male population and a tiny fraction of the female population. Most of these circles are nothing but spots to me. Below are the correct answers to what a person with normal color vision would see - and what I see (and most people with Red-Green color blindness). When you see what we can't see, you may understand why it's so tough to find the right sox and why we like bright colors, which are often identifiable. Normal Color Vision Red-Green Color Blind Left Right Left Right Top Top Spots Middle Middle Spots Bottom Bottom Spots Spots Another interesting color blindness test is below The test to the left is simpler.

36. About Color Blindness - What, Why, How - Problems Information about colorblindness color deficiency - what it is, why it happens,how it works, problems. http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/aboutCB.html

Colors for the Color Blind About Color Blindness (Color Vision Deficiency) What colorblindness is Frustrations / Dangers Clinical information How color blindness works ... Links to other Sites about Color Deficiency What colorblindness is: Color blindness (color vision deficiency) is a condition in which certain colors cannot be distinguished, and is most commonly due to an inherited condition. Red/Green color blindness is by far the most common form, about 99%, and causes problems in distinguishing reds and greens. Another color deficiency Blue/Yellow also exists, but is rare and there is no commonly available test for it. Depending on just which figures you believe, color blindness seems to occur in about 8% - 12% of males of European origin and about one-half of 1% of females. I did not find any figures for frequency in other races. Total color blindness (seeing in only shades of gray) is extremely rare. There is no treatment for color blindness, nor is it usually the cause of any significant disability. However, it can be very frustrating for individuals affected by it. Those who are not color blind seem to have the misconception that color blindness means that a color blind person sees only in black and white or shades of gray. While this sort of condition is possible, it is extremely rare. Being color blind does keep one from performing certain jobs and makes others difficult.

37. Consumer Guide To Glaucoma - AllAboutVision.com Risk factors, symptoms and treatments; also FAQ, doctor Q A, and news about research and new therapies. http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/glaucoma.htm

Glaucoma: The Second-Leading Cause of Blindness in the U.S. By Judith Lee and Gretchyn Bailey reviewed by Dr. Vance Thompson Your eye has pressure just like your blood, and when this intraocular pressure (IOP) increases to dangerous levels, it damages the optic nerve . This can result in decreased peripheral vision and, eventually, blindness. Glaucoma is similar to ocular hypertension but with accompanying optic nerve damage and vision loss. Glaucoma affects an estimated 3 million Americans, with 120,000 blind due to the condition. Elsewhere in the world, glaucoma treatment is less available, and glaucoma ranks as a leading cause of blindness just about everywhere. Even if people with glaucoma do not become blind, vision can be severely impaired. There are two major types of glaucoma: chronic or primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and acute closed-angle glaucoma. Other variations include congenital glaucoma, pigmentary glaucoma and secondary glaucoma. Glaucoma Signs and Symptoms Chronic glaucoma (primary open-angle glaucoma or POAG) is often called "the silent thief of sight" because you have no warning sign, no hint that anything is wrong. About half of Americans with chronic glaucoma don't know they have it. Glaucoma gradually reduces your peripheral vision, but by the time you notice it, permanent damage has already occurred. If your IOP remains high, the destruction can progress until tunnel vision develops, and you will only be able to see objects that are straight ahead.

38. RPB - Research To Prevent Blindness http://www.rpbusa.org/

39. Prevent-blindness.org Best Sites For PREVENT-BLINDNESS.ORG preventblindness.org. Home. Wed, 10 Aug 2005 GMT. Related Searches. • Preventblindness • blindness • Tty • Ameriphone • Hearing Impaired Product http://www.prevent-blindness.org/

40. Face Blind! Bill's Face Blindness (Prosopagnosia) Pages - Introduction A personal account of face blindness (prosopagnosia), by a sufferer. http://www.choisser.com/faceblind/

Preface This is the world's first (and to date only) book about face blindness. It has been published on the Internet so people in all lands can have access to it readily, and so it can be continuously updated. In these pages, you will find information, much of which is not available anywhere else at this time. Until people with this rare condition began to meet each other on the Internet in mid-1996, assembling this kind of information would not have been possible. Even researchers who have had hopes of specializing in this condition have been frustrated by having seen only a handful of subjects over a lifetime. With the advent of the Internet, face blind people are coming together in heretofore unheard of numbers, and much is being learned with each passing month. This document was first published as "Bill's Face Blindness Pages" in January, 1997, based on information learned in the fall of 1996. Since then, it has grown considerably, to become the document you will now see. Face Blind!

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