ActiveForever
(a division of Independent Living Products)
10799 N. 90th Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
800-377-8033 (Toll free)
480-767-6800
602-296-0297 Fax
www.activeforever.com
E-mail: CustomerService@ActiveForever.com

ActiveForever [all links on this page open the ActiveForever web site in a new window]specializes in practical solutions for a range of medical problems, rehabilitation, and accessibility. A section of their online store is devoted to low vision products.

ActiveForever's Low Vision Department offers a wide selection of daily living aids, large print products, magnifiers, CCTVs, talking watches, magnifying mirrors, lighting, and other low vision products. A list of these products can also be downloaded in PDF format.

American Bible Society
1865 Broadway
New York, NY 10023-7505
212-408-1200
www.americanbible.org [link opens in new window]

E-mail: info@americanbible.org

Provides the Bible in braille, large print, and cassette, in English and Spanish. Call for ordering and price information.

The American Printing House for the Blind, Inc. and Adult Life Products
1839 Frankfort Avenue
P.O. Box 6085
Louisville, Kentucky 40206-0085
800-223-1839 (U.S. and Canada)
502-895-2405
502-899-2274 Fax
[link opens in new window]E-mail: info@aph.org
catalogs@aph.org (request a catalog)

American Printing House for the Blind (APH) offers braille products, books, and supplies; large-print books; computer software and access; labeling and marking; lighting; low vision; mobility devices; personal care; recreation and leisure; talking products; and writing and reading devices.

Ann Morris Enterprises, Inc.
Division of Independent Living Aids, Inc.
P.O. Box 9022
Hicksville, NY 11802-9022
1-800-537-2118 (Toll free)
516-937-1848
516-937-3906 Fax
www.annmorris.com
E-mail: can-do@independentliving.com
[link opens in a new window]

Ann Morris supplies the following independent living products[all links open Ann Morris web site in a new window]: bath accessories, canes and walkers, CCTVs, clocks and timers, computers and technology, cooking, educational, electronics, food and novelties, games, recreation, health care, household, jewelry, lamps, magnifiers, personal care, pet supplies, talking items, telephones, watches, writing, and financial management.

Audible.com downloads radio shows, newspapers, magazines, and books in digital audio and offers several subscription options under the AudibleListener Program. Audible offers 23,000 digital audiobooks, audio magazines, newspapers, and radio shows. Compatible with Apple® iPod™, Palm handheld, Pocket PC, or other compatible handhelds.

P.O. Box 621
Bradenton, FL 34206
941-748-3031
941-748-2625 (Fax)
aurora.gospelcom.net [link opens in new window]
E-mail: tapes@auroraministries.org

Provides free audio Bibles to people throughout the world who are legally blind and print-handicapped.

BBC Audiobooks America

42 Whitecap Drive
North Kingston, RI 02852-7445
800-621-0182 (Toll free)
877-492-0873 (Toll free Fax)
www.bbcaudiobooksamerica.com  
E-mail: CustomerService@BBCAudiobooksAmerica

BBC Audiobooks America publishes and distributes unabridged audiobooks and radio dramatizations.

Beyond Sight, Inc.
5650 S. Windermere St.
Littleton, CO 80120
303-795-6455
303-795-6425 Fax
E-mail: support@beyondsight.com

Beyond Sight offers braille displays and embossers; computers; software; mobility aids; clocks and watches; adapted games; kitchen aids; health and beauty aids; lamps and bulbs; writing aids; magnifiers; helpful gadgets; note takers; recorders and players; telephones; video magnifiers.

BookCourier
Springer Design, Inc.
3160 Crow Canyon Place, Suite 145
San Ramon, CA 94583
925-242-0310
925-242-0357 (Fax)
E-mail: mailto:sales@bookcourier.comor support@bookcourier.com

BookCourier is designed for people with vision and learning disabilities that make reading difficult. BookCourier is a portable tool for listening to electronic text, digital files, and music. Downloads files from PCs or the Internet using the BookCourier-supplied transfer software.

Bookshare.org
The Benetech Initiative
480 California Avenue, Suite 201
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609
E-mail: info@bookshare.org

The Bookshare.org online community enables thousands of book scans to be shared. Bookshare.org uses a special exemption in the U.S. copyright law that permits the reproduction of publications into specialized formats for people with disabilities. Individual subscriptions enable “all you can read” access to books in easy-to-use digital formats. Proof of disability is required. Group rates are also available.

P.O. Box 378
Liberty, MO 64069-0378
800-522-4253
877-882-4253 (Fax)
www.braillebibles.org
E-mail: info@braillebibles.org

Provides Bibles in braille, large print, and audio formats.

Braille Co., Inc.

65-B Town Hall Square
Falmouth, MA 02540
508-540-0800
508-548-6116 (Fax)
http://home.capecod.net/~braillinc
E-mail: braillinc@capecod.net

Braille Co., Inc., is a professional braille publishing company that specializes in transcription services for vocational and educational needs.

Braille Co., Inc. is capable of transcribing all languages using the Roman, Greek, or Cyrillic alphabet into literary, mathematics, computer, or music braille and can produce textbooks, workbooks, computer manuals, training guides, complex regulatory manuals, schedules, charts, graphs, and tables.

Choice Magazine Listening
5 Channel Drive
Port Washington, NY 11050
888-724-6423 (Toll free)
516-883-8280
516-944-6849 (Fax)
E-mail: ChoiceMag@aol.com

Choice Magazine Listening is a free monthly anthology of current articles chosen from over 100 leading magazines, recorded in 4-track Library of Congress format. Choice Magazine is distributed free through regional libraries. Also available through individual subscription.  

Christian Record Services

4444 South 52nd Street
P.O. Box 6097
Lincoln, NE 68516-1302
402-488-0981
402-488-7582 (Fax)
www.christianrecord.org  
E-mail: info@christianrecord.org

Christian Record Services is an international organization serving blind and visually impaired individuals in approximately 80 countries worldwide and employs about 160 people throughout the United States and Canada.

They operate National Camps for Blind Children and provide free Christian publications and programs for people with visual impairments. Materials are available in braille, large print, and audio cassette.

Copper Dots
Craft Books in Braille
Marjorie Arnott
4233 East La Costa Drive
Sungroves, AZ 85249
480-345-8773
[link opens in new window]E-mail marnott@extremezone.com

Copper Dots offers patterns and books in braille for knitting and crocheting. Recipe books are also available.

Doubleday Large Print Home Library
Member Services
1225 South Market Street
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
E-mail: service@doubledaylargeprint.com

The Doubleday Large Print Home Library offers a wide selection of large print best sellers, romance, self-help, health, mysteries, and more in easy-to-read books and large print publications. Doubleday also offers a Large Print Book Club.

1845 East Hovey Avenue
Normal, IL 61761
309-452-3088
800-890-1180 (Toll free)
www.envisionamerica.com  
E-mail: envision@envisionamerica.com

En-Vision America, Inc. provides high-tech products aimed at solving problems for people with visual impairments, including voice-enabled products such as i.d. mate OMNI, the talking bar code reader, and ScripTalk, the talking pharmaceutical reader.

Extra-Large Print Books
A service of the Virginia M. Woolf Foundation
310-379-8321
www.text-key.com  
E-mail: info@extralargeprint.org

Reformats books and other publications from smaller type into 18-, 28-, and 48-point extra large print type. You can read the publications on a computer screen or print them out in large type. No additional software is required; the large print publications can be read and printed with Adobe Reader. Publications are compatible with most screen readers, but an ASCII version is also included.

7850 South U.S. Highway 1
P.O. Box 1162
Bunnell, FL 32110-8770
386-586-5885
No web site at this time

The Gospel Association for the Blind offers a wide range of topics including Bible studies, biographies, fiction and current issues, science, and music. Services are free and offered in print, cassette, or braille. Also operates a lending library and radio broadcasting.

Huge Print Press
1700 Commerce Street, Suite 1140
Dallas, TX 75201
866-484-3774 (Toll free)
972-701-8288
972-701-8088 (Fax)
www.hugeprint.com  
E-mail: info@hugeprint.com

Huge Print Press custom-enlarges everything from Bibles to textbooks to novels to cookbooks. Unlike other large print providers, you determine what font size you need and want. Font sizes are available in 16- to 36-point type and books are bound in a convenient 8.5"x11" size.

International Association of Audio Information Services
800-280-5325 (Toll free)
http://iaais.org

An international organization that provides radio reading services for persons who are print disabled.  Services include news, feature stories, sports, advertisements, and other special programs.

International Christian Braille Mission

5210 MacCorkle Avenue SW
South Charleston, WV 25309-1010
304-768-8876
www.icbminc.org

International Christian Braille Mission, Inc. (ICBM) produces and distributes New Testament Christian literature in formats readable by blind and visually impaired individuals. ICBM currently distributes material for evangelism and edification in approximately 20 countries worldwide, including England, Malawi, Thailand, India, Australia, Bangladesh, Cuba, and the United States.

InternetSpeech
877-312-4638

Provides access to the World Wide Web via any telephone, cell phone, or personal digital assistant (PDA). Information on any web site, whether voice-enabled or not, is available. A computer is not required. A variety of subscription plans are available.

InTouch Networks, Inc.
15 West 65th Street
New York, NY 10023
212-769-6270
www.jgb.org/InTouch
E-mail: intouchinfo@jgb.org

InTouch is a national reading service for people who are blind, visually impaired, and physically disabled. Stories from major magazines and newspapers are broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week. All readers are volunteers. Offers closed circuit radio broadcasts of national and local newspapers and magazines. Visit the InTouch web site to find a provider in your area.

JBI International (formerly Jewish Braille Institute of America)
110 East 30th Street
New York, NY 10016
800-433-1531 (Toll free)
212-889-2525
212-689-3692 (Fax)
www.jewishbraille.org[link opens in new window]

E-mail: admin@jbilibrary.org

Provides the visually impaired, blind, physically handicapped, and reading disabled of all backgrounds and ages with books, magazines and cultural programs in audio (seven languages), large print and braille. JBI has a broad range of titles, with the largest collection of Jewish interest books for the blind and visually impaired. Free of charge to eligible persons.

LS&S Group
P.O. Box 673
Northbrook, IL 60065
800-468-4789 (Toll free)
866-317-8533 (TDD)
847-498-1482 (Fax)
www.lssgroup.com[all links on this page open in a new window
E-mail: info@lssonline.net

LS&S specializes in products for people who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, and hard of hearing, including talking watches, talking calculators, magnifying glasses, lighting, recorded book players, daily living products, mobility and orientation, assistive technology, amplified telephones, assistive listening devices, alerting systems, vibrating alarm clocks, TTYs, and other communication devices.

Lutheran Braille Workers, Inc.
P.O. Box 5000
Yucaipa, CA 92399
909-795-8977
909-795-8970 (Fax)
www.lbwinc.org [link opens in new window]
E-mail: lbw@lbwinc.org

Provides Christian books, pamphlets, and tracts in braille in 30 languages.

Lutheran Blind Mission

7550 Watson Road
St. Louis, MO 63119
888-215-2455 (Toll free)
314-918-0415
www.blindmission.org
E-mail: blind.mission@blindmission.org

The Lutheran Blind Mission Society (LBMS) encourages, trains, and support blind people and trains blind leaders and missionaries.

The Lutheran Library for the Blind has 4,000 braille, large print, and audiocassette religious tracts, publications, and religious education materials, which it loans free of charge.

Lutheran Braille Evangelism Association

1740 Eugene Street
White Bear Lake, MN 55110-3312
651-426-0469
www.users.qwest.net/~lbea
E-mail: lbea@qwest.net

The Lutheran Braille Evangelism Association is a non-profit ministry, founded in 1952 by the blind Lutheran pastor John Gustav Erickson. Its mission is to provide Scripture and other Christian materials to blind and sight-impaired persons throughout the world. Materials are available in braille, large print, audiotape, CD, and in digital format via BibleCourier, an electronic pocket Bible.

Magnifying Aids
1780 Main Street, Suite A
Dunedin, FL 34698
866-691-2450 (Toll free)
727-234-0664
727-491-3857 (Fax)

Magnifying Aids offers braille; clocks and watches; computer software and access; diabetes management; kitchen and housekeeping; labeling and marking; lighting; low vision; mobility devices; personal care; recreation and leisure; talking products; telephones and accessories; writing and reading devices.

Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind
80 Eighth Avenue, Room 1304
New York, NY 10011
212-242-0263
212-633-1601 (Fax)
E-mail: blind@verizon.net

The Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind collects a wide range of articles and covers a wide range of interests from leading newspapers and periodicals. Free monthly distribution to people who are legally blind. Information is provided in braille, cassette, e-mail, and diskette.

Maxi-Aids
42 Executive Boulevard
Farmingdale, NY 11735
800-522-6294 (orders)
631-752-0521 (information)
631-752-0738 (TDD)
631-752-0689 (Fax)
E-mail: sales@maxiaids.com

Maxi-Aids offers alerting indicators; assistive tools; braille products; canes for the blind; labeling and marking; large print; lighting; low vision products; magnification; players/recorders; radios; games, recreation, and leisure; sewing aids; talking products; writing and reading aids.

Find Vision Rehabilitation and Low Vision Information

National Association for Visually Handicapped (NAVH) (NAVH) assists clients in locating services and resources in their area, which are appropriate for the visually impaired. These services and resources include low vision services, eye care specialists, state agencies and nonprofits committed to serving the visually impaired, and emotional support services. Some information on international services is also available.

NAVH New York City
22 West 21st Street 6th Floor
New York, NY 10010
888-205-5951
212-255 2804
212-727 2931 Fax
E-mail: staff@navh.org

NAVH San Francisco
507 Polk Street, Suite 420
San Francisco, CA 94102
888-205-5951
415-775-NAVH (6284)
415-346-9593 Fax
E-mail: staffca@navh.org

NAVH's mission is to help the "hard of seeing" worldwide cope with the psychological effects of visual impairment and to provide low vision services, visual aids and training to anyone in need of these services.

NAVH's Low Vision Aids Catalog offers magnifiers, light bulbs, lamps, clocks and watches, writing aids, electronic devices, and other products. NAVH's large print free-by-mail library offers over 9000 titles and is accessible to anyone in the United States.

National Braille Press
88 St. Stephen Street
Boston, MA 02115
888-965-8965 (Toll free)
617-266-6160
617-437-0456 (Fax)

National Braille Press[link opens in new window] (NBP) is a nonprofit braille printer and publisher offering braille books, magazines, textbooks, tests, and customized embossing services.

The National Braille Press Bookstore[link opens in new window] has books for adults and children, print books for sighted teachers and parents, and braille gifts. 

Everything Braille provides sources of braille publications, adaptive technology, tactile graphics, braille fun and games, and braille music.

2314 River Park Circle, #2111
Orlando, FL 32817-4828
407-281-0274
407-382-1594 (Fax)
No web site at present

The National Large Cell Braille Foundation was founded in 1996 to address the lack of availability of large cell and jumbo dot braille.

Large cell braille uses the same size dot as standard braille. The difference is that the dots in large cell braille are spread slightly farther apart. This feature can make it easier for blind people who learn braille later in life, or who have sensitivity problems, to feel the individual braille dots. Another difference is that the letters and lines in large cell braille are slightly farther apart than in standard braille. 

Primary projects include:

• Hooked on Braille, a unique Grade 1 and Grade 2 large cell and jumbo dot braille course to help increase braille literacy among people who are blind and could benefit from these formats.
• The Large Cell Braille King James Bible, which will create, produce, and distribute a Grade 2 large cell or jumbo dot version of the Bible.
• To make as many materials as possible available in large cell and jumbo dot braille.

The Library of Congress
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
1291 Taylor Street, NW
Washington, DC 20011
202-707-5100
202-707-0744 (TDD)
202-707-0712 (Fax)

Find Braille and Talking Books

The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), [link opens in new window]Library of Congress, administers the Braille and Talking Book Library Service, a free program that loans recorded and braille books and magazines, music scores in braille and large print, and specially designed playback equipment to residents of the United States who are unable to read or use standard print materials because of visual or physical impairment.

Local cooperating libraries throughout the United States mail NLS audiobooks, magazines, audio equipment, braille books, and braille magazines directly to enrollees at no cost. If you or someone you know is interested in receiving Talking Books, please click here to fill out a request form. Talking books and magazines and braille publications are delivered to eligible borrowers by postage-free mail and through a network of cooperative libraries. Religious publications include: Bibles, Other Scriptures, Liturgies, and Hymnals in Special Media.

Search the NLS catalog [link opens in new window] for braille and talking books, braille and large print sheet music, digital books, maps, and more.

Update:

On March 1, 2007, the National Library Service announced that C-1 and E-1 cassette players would no longer be produced. This gradual phase-out of cassette technology will make way for the production and distribution of digital talking books and players.

During the digital transition, NLS will continue to circulate and repair cassette book machines through the year 2011 until the digital transition is complete.

• Read the news release about the phase-out
• Read the news release about the competition to design a new digital talking book player, which will be called a "Dook".

New York Times Large Type Weekly
229 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
1-800-631-2580 (Information and subscriptions)

The New York Times Large Type Weekly publishes a weekly news summary from articles in The New York Times.

The Large Type Weekly offers a select package of the week's news printed in 16-point type, which is approximately twice the size of regular newspaper print. The Large Type Weekly is the only newspaper of its kind in the country offering a select package of the week's news especially for people with low vision. Sections include Foreign, National, Business, Science & Health, Arts, Living, Sports, Editorial/Op Ed, and The New York Times crossword puzzle.

NFB Newsline Service
National Federation of the Blind
1800 Johnson Street
Baltimore, MD 21230-4998
866-504-7300 (Toll free)
410-659-9314
410-685-5653 Fax
E-mail: nfbnewsline@nfb.org

NFB-NEWSLINE is a free service for individuals who cannot read regular newsprint. NFB’s electronic system receives digital transmissions from publishers on the morning of publication, reformats the data for conversion to synthetic speech, and uploads to the NFB-NEWSLINE® servers. By dialing a toll-free number, hundreds of newspapers and magazines are made available on a daily basis.

On the Go Books
P.O. Box 660003
Dallas, TX 75266-0003
877-661-3533
www.onthegobooks.com
E-mail: CustomerService@onthegobooks.com  

Offers online audio book (on CD) rental services. Membership plans are available.

Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest Road
Pleasantville, NY 10570-7000

Reader's Digest distributes Reader's Digest Large Print Magazine for Easier Reading that includes a monthly large print crossword puzzle, extra large type, larger photos and illustrations, and special non-glare paper for reading comfort. 'Reader's Digest Digital Magazine' is also available.

Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation, Inc.
Reader’s Digest Road
Pleasantville, NY 10570-7000

Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation offers Select Editions Large Type and "Sightlines," a large print newsletter. 

Readings for the Blind

29350 Southfield Road, Suite 130
Southfield, MI 48076-2060
888-766-1166 (Toll free)
248-557-7776
248-557-5382 (Fax)
www.readingsfortheblind.org
E-mail: rftb@sbcglobal.net

Readings for the Blind is a non-profit organization that records books not available elsewhere for the visually impaired, learning disabled, and those physically unable to hold a book or turn a page. RFB serves people of all ages throughout the United States.

Recordings are available on cassette (2-track and 4-track) and CD. There is no membership cost. Users can borrow or purchase the recordings. RFB stocks over 2,000 titles.

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
20 Roszel Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
866-RFBD-585 (866-732-3585)
800-221-4792 Member Services Department
E-mail: custserv@rfbd.org

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D), a nonprofit volunteer organization, is an educational library that serves people who cannot effectively read standard print because of visual impairment, dyslexia, or other physical disability. Their stated mission is to create opportunities for individual success by providing, and promoting the effective use of, accessible educational materials.

Resources for Rehabilitation

22 Bonad Road
Winchester, MA 01890
781-368-9094
www.rfr.org 
E-mail: info@rfr.org

Publishes a wide range of publications that enable people with disabilities and chronic conditions to remain independent:

• Individuals with a disability or chronic condition
• The parent of a child with a disability
• The adult offspring of an older parent with one or more disabilities
• A professional service provider.

Also produces a series of large print materials designed for distribution to clients and patients.

Seniorstore.com
P.O. Box 738
Auburn, NY 13021
800-704-5913 (Toll free)
www.seniorstore.com  
E-mail: seniorstore@msn.com

Large print books and videos, nostalgia gifts, music, exercise videos. Low vision products, talking products, talking gifts.

Speak To Me Catalog
PMB 154
330 SW 43rd Street, Suite K
Renton, WA 98055-4976
800-248-9965 (Toll free)
www.speaktomecatalog.com [link opens in new window]

Specializes in products that talk, sing, play music, or record messages. Products include talking clocks, watches, greeting cards, music boxes, calculators, novelties, bibles, books on tape, radios, games, toys, talking thermometers, and digital recorders.

Bill Brown's Music Lessons by Ear
Music for the Blind
704 Habersham Road
Valdosta, GA 31602
888-778-1828 (Toll free)
E-mail: Bill@musicvi.com

Learn to play guitar, saxophone, piano, banjo, mandolin, flute, violin, bass, drums, ukulele, and harmonica by ear.

RNIB Transcription Centre Southwest
2 White Oaks Court
Davids Lane
Ivybridge
Devon PL21 0DW
United Kingdom
Resource for information about Talking Scores

Music in large print is available from Library Reproduction Service
800-255-5002
310-354-2601Fax
www.lrs-largeprint.com

Music and Arts Center for Humanity(MACH)
National Resource Center for Blind Musicians
510 Barnum Ave.
Bridgeport, CT 06608
203-366-3300
203-368-2847
www.musicandartscenter.org
E-mail: info@musicandartscenter.org

The Large Print Bookshop
P.O. Box 5375
Englewood, CO 80155
800-305-2743 (Toll free)
303-721-7511
303-721-7512 (Fax)
http://users.aol.com/largeprint
E-mail: LargePrint@aol.com

Located within the Denver Book Mall
32 North Broadway
Denver, CO 80203

Offers over 2,000 titles from a wide range of categories, including Classic Literature, Novels, Humor, Mysteries, Inspirational Books, Westerns, and Non-Fiction. In addition to the Denver Book Mall location, books are also available for sale via mail order.

Scottish Braille Press
Craigmillar Park
Edinburgh EH16 5NB
Scotland
0131 662 4445
0131 662 1968 Fax
E-mail: enquiries.sbp@royalblind.org

The Scottish Braille Press[all links on this page open in a new window] produces a range of magazines and books that are sold to blind subscribers at the price of the original print copy. The range of books and magazines available is provided in their catalogue, which can be downloaded in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF formats.