International Blindness Organisations and Services

• American Council of the Blind
  • ACB Radio
• American Foundation for the Blind – a site containing articles, product reviews, and sells products that meet the needs of people who are vision impaired of all ages.
• American Printing House for the Blind
• Blind Citizens New Zealand
• Blindness Resource Center – contains many links to blindness related websites.
• Bookshare – an international library available to people with print reading disabilities and/or vision impairments in over 36 countries. It contains over 100,000 books in both Daisy and Braille formats. This library is provided at an affordable yearly subscription, with a one-time creation fee they use to offset the cost of verifying your disability.
• Canadian National Institute for the Blind
• DAISY Consortium – Digital Audiobased Information System – a talking book system.
• EnableLink – the online community for people who are blind or vision impaired, their families, friends and colleagues.
• Equipment for Kenya
• Hadley School for the Blind
• Library of Congress (USA)
• MD Support: The Eyes of the Macular Degeneration Community – provides information and support for people dealing with macular degeneration and related retinal diseases which lead to a loss of central vision.
• Narrative Television Network – makes movies and television programming accessible to blind and vision impaired people through narration, including free narrated programming on the web.
• National Federation of the Blind (USA)
• National Federation of the Blind: Advocates for Equality (Canada)
• Nystagmus Network – a UK-based self-help group providing support for adults and children with nystagmus, their parents and teachers, and fostering research into the condition.
• Operation Eyesight – a non-profit organisation that helps those threatened with preventable and treatable blindness conditions.
• Perkins Scout – a searchable database of carefully evaluated online resources related to blindness.
• Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
• Royal National Institute for the Blind (UK)
• Sight Savers International
• Vision Center – a one-stop shop for all things vision.
• World Blind Union