Talking Book Library - Links

Links to National and State TBL Resources

The National Library Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, NLS, provides eligibility criteria, frequently asked questions with answers, searching and viewing the talking book catalog online, fact sheets and reference documents, and other relevant information for people interested in our program.

The Bureau of Braille and Talking Book Library Services, BBTBLS, is the primary source for talking book services in Florida. We place loan requests in the BBTBLS computer on behalf of Pinellas County readers who want talking books that are older than two years. Their website covers eligibility, services available to Florida residents, location of subregional libraries in metropolitan areas, and information on Friends of the Library.

Links to Tampa Bay Area Agencies and Organizations Serving People With Disabilities or Older Adults

Neighborly Senior Services through the Neighborly Care Network has been providing health and wellness programs to seniors and their families for 44 years.

Lighthouse of Pinellas has provided services to meet the needs of the blind or visually impaired for over 50 years.

The Area Agency on Aging develops, and coordinates services for older adults in Pinellas and Pasco Counties.

The Florida Alliance of Assistive Services and Technology displays and demonstrates high-tech and low-tech assistive devices, plus maintains a clearinghouse of information on AD products.

Goodwill-Suncoast emphasizes training and support for employment of people with disabilities.

Links to Information About Books, Blindness, and Access

Note: All of the following websites have been designed, and are maintained by, legally blind individuals.

The Worldwide Virtual Community of the Disabled, Inc., WWVCD, displays homepages, resumes, and profiles of disabled individuals. Resumes and Profiles are hosted for free for disabled individuals and a free webpage program includes business opportunities for the disabled. The site includes over 150 links to homepages of blind individuals which can be viewed alphabetically, regionally, and some by type of eye condition.

Cathy's Newsstand invites you to pull up a chair and dive into the many magazines, newspapers, and other entertaining spots here in Cathy's little corner of the web.

Assistive Media is the net's first audio-literary service for persons with print reading/access barriers.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 includes specifications for web access by people with disabilities have been released by the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C).

Links to Adaptive Technology Web Sites

Center for Applied Special Technology suggests that you ask Bobby to check out your web site's accessibility

disABILITY Information and Resources

Equal Access to Software and Information, EASI, has online workshops that focus on adaptive computing technology and on creating accessible Web pages.

Lists of vendors of adaptive technology