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Podcasts and Podcasting:

The Randomage Podcast of Valiant8086. Talking about, anything from cars, to trucks, to phones, to anima ls.

Blind Cool Tech is a great place to hear all kinds of things related to blindness and blind technology. You can also find sound seeing tours and many social podcasts of interest here too.

Blind Podcasters is another good source for podcasts relating to blindness and technology as well as other blind interests.

ACB Radio is an excellent source for lots of audio programming for the blind.

Mary's Podcast is a fun filled site with lots of podcasts for you to enjoy.

ds2adventurers is another source for blind related podcasts.

MaLyn's Slice of Life Podcast is another blindness related podcast by Maria and Linda.

Accessible World is a great place for technical podcasts and live audio events. Check the web site for their schedule of live events.

Feedburner is the place where you can get your podcasts noticed by the rest of the world.

Welcome to Mary's home page. Here you can find a number of blindness related links as well as lots of interesting podcasts for you to listen to.

The FS podcast is a monthly podcast from Freedom Scientific.

This is Shane Jackson's Blind World Podcast feed. Shane and his friends offer all kinds of podcasts here, including demonstrations of the Mac and Voice Over.

Retro radio is ran by Keith Heltsley. Here he has a OTR podcast that is worth checking out. Lots of old radio shows for all of you OTR fans.

Audio Programs and Audio Streaming:

dodgeradio.net is an online radio station featuring all kinds of music.

Anything but iPod is a place to get info on many mp3 players besides iPods.

Goldwave is a very accessible and inexpensive audio editor, file converter, player and much more. I highly recommend it if you are looking for a powerful but inexpensive accessible audio editing program.

Winamp is a great alternative to windows media player. It's powerful, flexible and very accessible.

Total Recorder is an inexpensive audio program that lets you record audio streams from the web as well as letting you record and edit audio files on the PC.

NCH is the home for wavepad an audio editor that is free and popular for those on a budget.

www.2020theblink/net is an online radio station run by several blind people in the US, playing most kinds of music.

Dancing Dots serves blind musicians and their educators through technology and training. "Where Music Meets Technology for the Blind"

Sound Forge is an extremely powerful audio editor that is very popular with blind audio professionals.

Replay AV is a program that will allow you to record Audio and Video streams from the internet.

Magnatunes is a very nice place where you can purchase great music by lots of independent artists. Half the purchase price of the music goes directly to the musicians.

Louddcity has hundreds of internet radio streams to choose from and best of all it's totally free.

Shoutcast is another great free internet audio stream site.

Tuner2 is another internet source for streaming audio from around the world.

A Windows Media Player 11 Guide for Jaws users. This is an excellent reference.

Another Windows Media Player 11 Guide For anyone that uses WMP 11.

The Q Online is another internet radio station. It's fairly new and growing.

OTRCAT.com, which is dedicated to the preservation of the golden era of radio (old time radio). OTRCAT.com offers vast resources about nostalgic radio shows. As well as being able to hear thousands of old time radio episodes online, visitors to OTRCAT.com can stream or download full episodes in Mp3 format as well as read detailed descriptions of the performers and series broadcast in the era 1920 through 1959. In the daily downloads, there are the broadcasts of the day throughout history (from the last 50-70+years).

Applian Technologies Info for Blind Users is ran by Petro Gianaknopoulos. Users will find links, discount codes and 2 interviews with the company.

In Touch Listen to the latest edition of In Touch, another program bringing you news for the blind and partially sighted.

Insight Radio the radio station of RNIB.

Spotify listen to music using this player on your computer. Premium (paying) members can also use the player on their mobile phones.

Musician and Artist Corner

John Watt Is the website for John Watt, a musician friend of mine. Check out his website and have a listen, buy some tunes and most of all enjoy!.

Scott Treeman is a Jazz pianist and producer out of Miami Florda. His website is just getting started, so check often for new goodies. If you need a song created make sure you contact Scott.

Stash Skate is the home of Stash Serafin who is a blind Ice Skater out of Philidelphia. Make sure to visit his very Inspirational website to learn more about him.

Shawn Brock is a very highly qualified piano tuner and artist. If you need your piano tuned by the best, be sure to give Shawn a call. He currently services the Greater Cincinnatti Ohio area.

Information / Organizations / Web Blogs and Other Peoples Blind web sites:

Blogs:

The Blind Geek Zone Blog is the Blog for the Blind Geek Zone web site. I will post things here that I feel my audience will want to know about for various goings on in the blind community.

The Blind Access Journal is Darrell Shandrow's Blog and podcast web site. He always has great comments and information on blind issues.

Blind Bargains is a great blog with lots of bargains from all around the internet with an emphesis on items for the blind.

Chairman-mals-little-red-book is another very well done blindness blog. Well worth reading

Blind Computing is Rick Justice's web site, here you will find lots of programs, utilities and blind resources.

Blind Confidential serves as a commentary on issues regarding people with vision impairments.

Blindsea's blog and website.

blogger.com another site for creating a free blog and also see what others have written.

Perspectives From a Blind Point of View is another blog

The Ranger Station has ramblings from some dude in the Assistive Technology industry.

The Serotek Blog is where you can get all the latest information on what Serotek is working on.

Blind Resources Blog is a Blog for the Blind Resources web site.

Corry's Madness Get to know Cory Kadlik!

Jeffrey Shockley's Blog Is a personal tech Blog that is done by Jeffrey Shockley. He talks about his personal life and also posts technical goodies as well.

gwmicro's blog. Thoughts and insights into the GWMicro team.

Live Journal write a personal blog here.

Nikckie's Nook live journal blog.

Raul Gallegos' blog page.

Tech Talk Radio Blog is a interesting blog that has lots of tech postings.

Texplosion is a new technology Blog that will discuss the latest technology news from both a sighted and visually impaired view point. Ran by James Scholes, texplosion is sure to become a favorite technology Blog for all of us techno geeks. Be sure to check daily for updates.

Serotalk podcast and blog.

Wayne's personal blog, including information on technology.

Friends of the Zone Web pages:

Tony Broome Ministries This is Tony Broome's web site where you will find links to his ministry and links to other tech web sites.

ATCB Adaptive Technology Center for the Blind (ATCB) is a non-profit resource and Information Technology center. We are committed to fulfilling the fundamental rights of access to all expressions of knowledge, intellect and creativity and to providing an environment that supports self-determination for visually challenged people, based upon the principles of choice, equality, cooperation and mutual respect.

The visually impaired page of First UCC of Millvale is done by Gary G. Schindler. Here you can find many spiritual and informational links of interest to visually impaired people.

Blind bridges is a new and growing web site where you can have some fun.

Tomi's Tech Reviews web site is another source for various tech reviews.

Lisa Hall's World is another good source of info for blind users, especially those interested in the NFB and Braille services.

Blind Resources Info page is another good resource web site for the blind.

the personal website of Valiant8086, who including technology and things related to blindness.

Blind Planet is ran by Chetan Bakhru and is another good place for finding all of your blindness related resources.

Lynn White's Web Site is a blindness related web site that is done by Lynn White. there you will find links and other info for you to read.

Stacy Bleeks.com is a personal website. Here you will find Audio and Accessibility goodness ranging from the coolest old time radio dramas, music I have recorded using Dancing Dots CakeTalking scripts with Sonar, as well as an "Accessibility" section offering some new accessibility tips for blind and visually impaired computer users.

Heltsley.net is a site containing various goodies such as clean jokes, commentaries and Retro radio. Check it out and have a good clean laugh.

Organizations:

Freedom Scientific makes products for the blind and also provides training for JAWS for Windows and Magic through webinars.

Book share is a web site where you can become a member and download from over 30,000 electronic books.

RFBD is another source for electronic books for the blind.

Audible is a very good place to purchase audio books.

the Royal National college for the Blind is one of the best colleges for blind and partially sighted students over the age of 16 years in the UK.

RNIB college Loughborough is another college for students over the age of 16 in the UK

The Hadley School for the Blind offers more than 90 distance education courses to eligible students completely free of charge.

American Council for the Blind is an organization for the blind community.

American Foundation for the Blind is an organization for the blind community.

IBSA is the International Blind Sports Federation. This includes all the rules for several sports that have been adapted for visually impaired players.

Royal Blind is an organization for the blind in Scotland and is in charge of a number of services in the UK, including the Scottish Braille Press which produces books and information in Braille.

National Federation of the Blind is an organization for the blind community.

RNIB is the Royal National Institute for the blind in the UK.

Informational:

IBSA Goalball Rules 2006-2010.doc this is a word document containing all the official rules for international goalball, a sport for totally blind players.

Working dogs Recoursese Page is a website containing links to resources for working dogs for all disabilities, not just those of guide dogs and hearing dogs.

Blind Sea is a website containing information about blind technology and mobile phones in particular. The website also has it's own blog.

JFW Lite is a very good web site with lots of program links and helpful hints for using many different programs. It was done by Debbie Scales who passed away in September 2006. It's no longer being updated but will remain a great source of information for a long time to come.

Computing.net is a vast source of computing information. Very useful with many members contributing answers to questions.

White stick program site Tom Lorimer's white stick site is a great source of information for anyone in the UK.

The Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday is a great source for tech goodies. Check here every Thursday for a new list.

The LangaList is a great source of tech articles, while not a blind web site the list offers a lot of great info for any techie out there.

Accessible Search link to the google accessible search engine.

Access watch is a valuable source of information for the blind that is done by Jamie Pauls. You can find reviews of accessible software, info about accessible cell phones and much more.

The Blind Webring is a good source for blindness related web pages made by other blind people.

The MSFN Windows unattended installation is a tremendous source of information on doing unattended installation of windows on your PC.

Brian Hartgens home page is another very good source of useful info.

Free guides from John Wilson is a series of free tutorials that will show you how to use several popular applications with the keyboard. These are now free and will not be updated any longer but will still be a good reference for quite a while.

Zap 2 it is an online source for TV listings and movie guides.

The Housing & Mortgages for People with Disabilities is a great resource for anyone with a disability needing information about buying a new house. The guides are in both text and audio formats for added flexability.

Music For The Blind IS a music website that is ran by Bill brown that offers many music courses for the blind that are done completely by audio and require no Braille skills to learn.

WebAIM.org Expanding the web's potential for people with disabilities.

ICanWorkThisThing.com contains information about technology for the visually impaired, including using the mac and iPhone with voiceover and information about other mobile phones. You will also find a link to Holly Anderson's list of accessible aps for the iPhone.

Wayne's personal website where he has information about technology and blindinformation in general.

Programming:

Inthane's Grab Bag is an excellent source for all you VI programmers out there. There are many links to programming utilities and links to other programming sites.

Jamal Mazrui's EMPOWERMENT ZONE is another technical and programming source with lots of other valuable information.

The Freedom Scientific Developers Network contains a large reference file for anyone wanting to make scripts for JAWS.

The model talker SAPI speech synthesizer project can be found here. You can use this to create SAPI voices that you can use with your screen reader that can be in your own voice.

HTML coding and Utilities:

Introduction to HTML is a good source for someone wanting to learn to code in HTML to produce a web page.

Introduction to XHTML is a good tutorial from W3C to teach you how to code in XHTML which is becoming the new standard for coding web pages.

Introduction to CSS tutorial is another tutorial from W3C schools that teaches CSS coding.

CSE HTML validator is a very good tool for editing and validating your HTML code. There is a free and a pay version of the software.

arachnophilia 4.0 is an older but accessible HTML coding program.

W3C CSS validation service is where you can validate your CSS code for free.

W3C Markup validation service is where you can validate your HTML code for free.

Script socket is where you can go to get remotely hosted CGI scripts in case your server doesn't allow you to host your own CGI scripts.

XML checker for checking your podcast XML files for correct syntax.

Accessible HTML from the accessible web design group shows you many ways for making accessible web sites.

html.net is a site for learning HTML and CSS coding.

Games:

7-128 Software Computer Games for Everyone SIMPLY ENTERTAINMENT GAMES. Here you can get FREE demos. Serialized stories, an on-line trivia game, poetry, and other engaging cultural info and articles.

All in play accessible games is a excellent site where you can play poker, Texas hold-em and crazy eights with players around the world.

Kitchens Inc. has quite a few free speech based games for both DOS and Windows.

Meebo is another place with accessible games for you blind gamers out there.

USA Games Interactive also has accessible games for blind gamers.

PCS Games is a site selling audio games and the owner, Phil Vlasak is the maker of Sarah and the Castle Of Witchcraft.

Alteraeon is a site for other accessible games, including role playing games.

G M A Games is another accessible games site for blind gamers.

V I P game zone is another great source for accessible games online.

Accessible Games links to more accessible games.

Simons Games is a new and growing games website for blind gamers.

Blind Gamers is part of Spoonville Software. The games are all free of charge. Games include chess, solitaire, cribbage, hearts and many more.

The Zone BBS The Zone BBS, Games, community and more.

l-works another site for games for the blind,.

Monopoly free internet based monopoly game for the blind, which includes both an installable version to put on your desktop and also a web browser version.

Screen Readers:

Freedom Scientific is the home of Job Access With Speech or JAWS for short screen reader.

GW Micro is the home of Window Eyes a screen reader for Windows on the PC.

Thunder is a free screen reader from the United Kingdom.

NVDA is a free and open source screen reader for Windows XP.

Serotek System Access is another fairly inexpensive screen reader for the PC.

Dolphin offers many types of assistive technology including HAL a screen reader for the PC and Luna a piece of magnification software for the PC.

Next Up offers many different SAPI voices for your screen reader as well as several programs that take full advantage of the voices. These include Text Aloud, News Aloud and Weather Aloud.

Text and Audio Chatting:

For the people is a web community where you can find many tutorials and talking chat rooms.

Skype is what all your blind friends are talking about. It's quickly becoming one of the most popular communications programs on the net. You can call other PCs and make calls around the world to regular phones as well. It's accessible and very fun to use.

Scripts for Skype can be downloaded here to help you use Skype with JAWS easier.

Doug Lee's Skype Scripts Is the new web site to get the latest Skype scripts from. This replaces the older web site listed above for newer scripts.

VIP Conduit is another community for visually impaired persons. A great site with lots of goodies here.

AOL Instant Messenger an instant messenger that is simple to use.

Windows Live messenger is probably the most popular messenger that everyone uses!

Qwitter is a free twitter client that works on computers, making twitter easier to use.

Mobile Facebook site, which is easier to use than the normal site.

Facebook a very popular social networking site where you can talk to friends. The full site also includes a lot of applications and games.

Twitter is another social networking site, although not as popular as facebook.

Online File Transfers:

Yousendit is an online site where you can transfer large files to anyone for free.

Sendspace is another online site that you can transfer large files for free.

Blind File Sharing, Like the name implies, it is a service designed for blind and visually impaired people who want to share files or need a way to send files to people that are too large to be accomodated by an email client as an attachment. The site does not incorporate graphics or capchas of any kind. The content within the site explains all the aspects of how to use the service. The site supports M3U audio streaming. The plans are very affordable.

Dropbox share files with specific friends or publically.

Utilities and Scripts:

Accessible Programs has scripts for Ad-Aware and SpyBot search and destroy and several other popular programs.

Avast Antivirus is another antivirus program. The home edition is free, although the professional edition costs a bit.

FireFox is an alternative web browser that you might want to look at. It's faster and better to use than IE.

Blind Crawler is the JAWS search engine, where you can find most scripts you need.

Juice is a very good pod catcher you can use to receive podcasts from around the net.

Nero Burning Rom is a powerful and easy to use CD and DVD burning program. It's very accessible.

Cdex a free and open source CD ripping software.

Rockbox is a screen reader for the blind that works on mp3 players.

The Accessible RSS Feed Reader is a simple to use news feed reader.

AVG Anti Virus is a free anti virus program. It's a great alternative to the higher priced and often less accessible anti virus programs out there.

all the podcasts out on the net.

Major Geeks is an excellent site where you can download free and shareware utilities that never contain any spyware.

Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Is your PC ready for Vista?

The software patch software site is where you can download various patches for Windows and many other programs.

Process Library is an online site where you can find out information for all the processes running on your PC.

NoteTab is a nice replacement for NotePad. It's very flexible and powerful.

DVD Video Soft has downloads for free software including a free youtube to MP3 converter.

The Accessible PodCatcher is Simpler to use than Juice to catch podcasts for the beginner wanting to get into listening to

Shopping:

Ebay although not a blind related website, items can be bbought or sold here.

Blind Mice Mart is a online store where you can buy lots of items for people with disabilities.

ILA is another good online store with lots of items for the disabled.

Speak to me catalog is a good source for talking items for the blind.

badger is another online store with many items for the blind.

Braille Books Superstore is a good place to find many Braille items for the blind.

RNIB Online Shop is the online shop for blind related products sold by RNIB in the UK.

Dynamic-Living is yet another great source for items for the disabled.

Blind bargains is a great place to find the lowest prices on products for the blind.

Cobolt sells talking products and some easy to see products for the visually impaired. Their website has recently been updated.

The Whitestick website has a list of online shops that are accessible, as well as those specifically for the blind.

Computer room Services offers products and services for the visually impaired in the UK.

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