These links are home pages of various companies and organizations who work with assistive technology. Each of them have links to other organizations as well.
Trace Center for Research and
Development, http://www.trace.wisc.edu
The Trace Center conducts research to make technology more accessible to
the disabled. They have developed many exciting products and ideas to
aid in assistive technology. They are also currently working with the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications to develope accessible
materials for NCSA clients.
Web Accessibility Initiative,
http://www.w3.org/WAI
The World Wide Web Consortium governs standards for all material on the
web. This page explains the Web Accessibility Initiative, a program to
help make the web accessible to people with disabilities.
The Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation,
http://www.yuri.org
YRIF is a foundation which promotes global information accessibility.
Their web site explains and demonstrates this mission.
Microsoft Accessibility Home
Page, http://www.microsoft.com/enable
Microsoft is doing some interesting work to make their products more useable
by disabled customers.
Apple Computers Disability
Page, http://www2.apple.com/disability
Apple Computers is doing extensive work to make their computers
accessible to disabled users.
Sun Microsystems' Enabling
Technologies, http://www.sun.com/tech/access
Take a look at the work Sun Microsystems is doing to aid disabled users.
In addition to development on their own products, they are working to
make the Java programming language more accessible, as well.
Yahoo
- Disabilities,
http://www.yahoo.com/text/Society_and_Culture/Disabilities
Yahoo maintains a thorough list of disability-related web sites,
including a collection of adaptive technology web pages. This list is
always changing, with new information being added constantly.