Empowering Visually Impaired Minnesotans
Providing assistive technologies to blind & low vision individuals to give them greater independence in their daily lives.
Providing assistive technologies to blind & low vision individuals to give them greater independence in their daily lives.
The technology we provide often includes text to speech software to make using a computer easier, talking GPS to help with independent mobility, and mobile document readers that work on cell phones.
Eye-Link Minnesota was created to provide funding resources for visually impaired residents who cannot afford these costly assistive technologies.

Combines video magnification and text-to-speech features into a single desktop video magnifier. The OCR camera displays a document on the screen. It then processes the document and reads it aloud.

A portable handheld video magnifier that will aid in viewing pill bottles, menus, stove top dials and shopping lists.

Projects a magnified image of printed text, handwriting, and photographs onto a large monitor. CCTV helps the visually impaired to read printed materials and see what they are writing.

BrailleNote is a specialized computer with a braille keyboard, text-to-speech synthesizer, and braille output display. BrailleNote is commonly used in work and school environments.
Job Access with Speech (JAWS) is software package to convert on-screen text elements into text-to-speech or braille display.
ZoomText Screen Magnifier is a screen magnifier for Microsoft Windows that assists the visually impaired by increasing the size font and characters.
A powerful and reliable computer is necessary to run software such as JAWS.
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Eye-Link Minnesota
PO Box 43985
Minneapolis, MN 55443
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Eye-Link Minnesota
Attn: Jeff Thompson
6835 East River Road
Fridley, MN 55432
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