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Reading for the Blind

DAISY Consortium The DAISY Consortium was founded in 1996 and consists of organizations around the world who are committed to developing the Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY). DAISY is a digital standard for producing accessible and navigable multimedia documents. These documents are Digital Talking Books, digital text books, or a combination of synchronised audio and text books that permit everyone, but especially people who are blind, visually impaired, or have another print disability, to experience a better way to read.
ReadThisToMe.org allows blind and low-vision people (clients) to have printed or handwritten documents read to them over the phone. The service is available throughout the U.S. and Canada. A ReadThisToMe volunteer receives a fax of a document, calls the client back, and reads the document over the phone.
Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) "Helping you live with sight loss" [United Kingdom]
"See It Right Pack" provided by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB). The See it Right pack is a series of 12 booklets giving comprehensive practical advice on designing, producing, and planning for accessible information. [United Kingdom]
Unabridged Narrated Digital Audio Books for the Blind