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This page is not designed to include everything out there.  Just the few I have time to check out and approve.  Enjoy!

BlindNess
Deafness
Children's Websites that are Disabled-Friendly
Good Free Simple Sites
Blindness

Phones that talk, everything!  Verizon carries the LG VX8350 and the LG VX5400 phones.  It's tricky to enable to it, though.  Here's the process:
1) Menu
2) Settings and Tools
3) Tools
4) Voice Commands
5) Press the Settings soft button
6) Pick Prompts
7) Pick Mode
8) Select Readout

iPods that speak, everything!  You must have the latest generation Nano (4th gen.) and the latest 8.x iTunes software. When connected, ou’ll find a new option in iTunes to “Enable spoken menus for accessibility.” When you sync, iTunes 8 creates spoken descriptions for the contents of your iPod nano using the text-to-speech engine on your computer (in Mac OS X, Windows XP and Windows Vista) and then syncs them to your iPod nano (4th generation) along with your music.

Games
AudioGames.net
LWorks Games
BSC Games
And here's another site that has a really good list: e-Bility.com

AudioBooks
Librivox
Free Classic Audio Books
Audio Books For Free (not really; the low quality versions are free; others are reasonably priced, especially collections)

Resources
InspiredCode's Resources for the Visually Impaired
Amantha's DiscoverTechnology
Resources for Parents of Blind Children
Deafness
 
Phones that convert your caller's speech to text, immediately! CapTel at <http://www.captionedtelephone.com> provides this phone and service, many times at no charge to the user.  The caller's voice goes to an intermediary computer, which uses advanced speech recognition to send text to the user's phone display, which is quite readable.  I had a conversation with a nice woman who is deaf, Bonnie (thanks!), and she was able to speak with me at a close-to-normal rate, using her CapTel phone.  Very cool!
Children's Websites that are Disabled-Friendly

MightyBook
TumbleBook
ZacBrowser (a web browser linked up with hundreds of disabled-friendly sites)
Tar Heel Readers (very simple books that use robotic text-to-speech (TTS); click desired voice on left to speak)
Good Sites with Free Simple Software
Priory Woods School
SENSwitcher

More????  Now it's your turn to contribute!  Email me at the return address from my email to you.
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