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ADA Guide for Places of Lodging: Serving Guests Who Are Blind Or Who Have Low Vision
All About Vision provides patient information about vision
American Council of the Blind
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
Armor-Tile provides detectable warning and wayfinding solutions for the visually impaired.
“Bibliography for Performance Systems Technology (PST) and Computer-based Instruction (CBI)” published in the ACM [...]

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Each year, the National Federation of the Blind grants thirty scholarships to legally blind persons in higher education from college freshmen to doctoral candidates for academic excellence, community service, and financial need. The scholarships range in value from $3000 to $12,000.

Title: Kenneth Jernigan Scholarship
One scholarship of $12,000 supports a blind scholar pursuing or planning to [...]

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Web-Braille is a data file format that can be read on a Braille display or transmitted to a Braille embosser. Web-Braille files have the extension .brf. The Braille codes in Braille-ready files allow blind people to read electronic documents from computer disks or from the Internet.
Web-Braille files contain 25 lines per page. Each line holds [...]

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We received an inquiry from a student about the shape of the human field of vision. The following Web sites provide information about this.

How We See: The First Steps of Human Vision
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/vision_background.html
Newton’s Apple teacher guides: Human Eye. How does the human eye see? How does the eyeball work? http://www.newtonsapple.tv/TeacherGuide.php?id=1539
Sensitivity for global shape detection
http://journalofvision.org/3/10/4/article.aspx
Glossary of Lasik [...]

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Visual accessibility problems involve blindness, low vision, and color-blindness.
Reference Books and Resources
There are several excellent books related to vision. See the suggested reading list for general information and detailed reference books for your library.
Recent and Relevant
Macular Degeneration
“UCSB Studies Link Alzheimer’s Disease, Macular Degeneration“, by Josh Braun, Staff Writer. Published Wednesday, May 28, 2003. Issue 135 [...]

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