For eight weeks during the summer, Camp Marcella offers free one- or two-week camping sessions for visually impaired children and teens ages 5 through 16.
Chakshumathi is a nongovernmental, not for profit organization based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, working for developing resources for the use of visually impaired people.
Christian Record Services for the Blind (CRSB) is a non-profit organization designed to benefit the blind and visually impaired.
DTBook was developed by the Daisy Consortium as an accessible file format similar to HTML, with special regard to the requirements of the visually impaired.
In 1923, the Michigan State Legislature passed bills that gave school districts state funds if they included and established special schools for handicapped students: those of cognitive impairment, those of the deaf, those who were crippled or those who were visually impaired.
Facing Goliath is a 2006 documentary film about a competitive bodybuilder (Sebastian MacLean) who assists a visually impaired friend (Ray Taylor) transform from middle aged, over weight, couch potato to natural bodybuilder.
The guidance is particularly concerned with provisions to assist the disabled, including those who are visually impaired.
The company has a particular interest in producing texts for visually impaired people, including large print books in Italian, English and French.
Located in the northeast corner of Baltimore, The Maryland School for the Blind (MSB) is a private, statewide resource center providing outreach, school and residential programs to children and youth from infancy to age 21 who are blind or visually impaired including those with multiple disabilities.
The Missouri School for the Blind is an educational institution in the United States specially designed for students who are blind or visually impaired.
Orientation and Mobility or O&M is a profession which focuses on instructing individuals who are blind or visually impaired with safe and effective travel through their environment.
The statue was manufactured, modelled, polished and painted by visually impaired children under the supervision of by French artist Bernard Romain, who wanted to demonstrate that disability was not a disqualifying factor.
Tactile graphics, including tactile pictures, tactile diagrams, tactile maps and tactile graphs, are images that use raised surfaces so that a visually impaired person can feel them.
Based in West Bengal, India, it has in the last 10 years developed and commercialized a host of systems for visually impaired, cerebral palsy-affected, hearing handicapped, and autistic persons.
The visually impaired constitute a 'special group' to whom society must pay concerted attention.
Aural Cascading Style Sheets, part of Cascading Style Sheets that makes a website more accessible to visually impaired and screen readers
Much of the programming is produced by AdapTV, colleges for the hearing and visually impaired and the BBC
Australia competed at the 1984 Summer Paralympics that were held in two locations - Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom (wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries) and in the Mitchel Athletic Complex and Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, United States of America (wheelchair and ambulatory athletes with cerebral palsy, amputees, and "Les Autres" (the others) conditions as well as blind and visually impaired athletes).
BlindArt, a charity which promotes the enjoyment of art for visually impaired people
French author Jacques Lusseyran, who was visually impaired at the age of 7 when he injured his eyes on the sharp corner of a teacher's desk, became part of the French resistance during World War II.
Founded in 1958 by Henry Bloomfield and the Junior Blind of America, the non-profit camp runs several sessions every summer for those who are blind and visually impaired.
In 2005 Dolphin worked alongside BT and the National Library for the Blind to develop a prototype synthetic voice application enabling books, magazines and newspapers to be converted into audio format, thus enabling them to be read by visually impaired computer users.
NIMAS (National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard) – an U.S. standard for electronic books for the visually impaired – defines a subset of DTBook XML elements.
The charity now provides many services to over 7000 blind and visually impaired people across the County and has offices in Chorley, Penwortham Southport and Morecambe.
New Scientist magazine reported on research as to whether a device similar to a VISOR can actually be created for blind or visually impaired people.
Gerd Gradwohl (born January 16, 1960 in Kempten) is a visually impaired alpine skier from Germany.
Founded in 1920 by William A. Hadley, a Chicago high school teacher who lost his sight at age 55, and Dr. E.V.L. Brown, the Hadley School for the Blind offers classes free-of-charge to its blind and visually impaired students and their families and affordable tuition classes to blindness professionals.
His mother Grace brought him to the Kikuyu Eye Clinic (a nearby hospital supported by Christian Blind Mission International (CBMI), recognised as one of the best centers for the visually impaired in East Africa.
Duygu Çete (born 1989), 2012 Summer Paralympics bronze medalist female visually impaired judoka
Paralympic judo has been a Paralympic sport (for the visually impaired) since 1988; it is also one of the sports at the Special Olympics.
He was deeply involved in the community of visually impaired computer users, and had assisted several such individuals in setting up the "Audio Desktop" of Emacspeak.
Their fates are intertwined with the women they love—Ji-won (Lee Bo-young), a volunteer reader for visually impaired people who now works as a VIP party planner at a five-star hotel, and Soo-mi (Im Jung-eun), a hyper-realism painter.
The Narrative Television Network has received an Emmy Award, a Media Access Award and an International Film and Video Award for its pioneering work in making movies, television and educational programming accessible for the visually impaired.
Phi Beta has completed several national projects including: hand enlarging music for the visually impaired, service in USO shows, aid to music programs in Mexico, and most notably her continued work with the MacDowell Colony.
A conference organised by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Marrakesh, Morocco, in June 2013 adopted a special treaty called "A Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities" (briefly Marrakesh Treaty).
He is best known for his appearance in, and producing/co-directing of, the documentary film Facing Goliath, which both covers his natural bodybuilding career and his efforts to transform a visually impaired, middle aged, friend from couch potato to competitive bodybuilder.
Local series and movies are usually broadcast in NICAM stereo, although sometimes an audio narration track for blind and visually impaired viewers is provided as well.
Maguire v SOCOG 2000 (Australian legal case about making a website accessible to a visually impaired person)
The Washington School for the Blind, also known as the Washington State School for the Blind, is a school for visually-impaired, blind, or deaf-blind students, located in Vancouver, Washington in the United States.
Bill G. Chapman (1928–2007), American advocate for visually impaired persons