Self-Help Associations / Additional Services

Austria

Federal association for people with disabilities / Bundesverband für Menschen mit Behinderung ÖZIV (Österreichweite zukunftsorientierte Interessenvertretung): https://www.oeziv.org/ (in German)

Accessibility: Implementation tips for companies, WKO Austria: https://www.wko.at/service/unternehmensfuehrung-finanzierung-foerderungen/barrierefreiheit.html (in German)

Association for the blind and visually impaired in Austria (in German): https://www.hilfsgemeinschaft.at/

Germany

Aktion Mensch: https://www.aktion-mensch.de/ (in German)

Artemisia e.V. - Inclusion for All is a Berlin-based association for people with or without disabilities and their families, especially of Italian and German-Italian origin, as well as professional helpers in disability care. More about the association in German and Italian: www.artemisiaprojekt.de (in German and Italian)

German Deaf Association / Deutscher Gehörlosen-Bund e.V.: http://www.gehoerlosen-bund.de/ (in German)

German Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired / Deutscher Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband e.V. (DBSV): https://www.dbsv.org/ (in German)

German Disability Council - the action alliance of German disability associations / Deutscher Behindertenrat (DBR) - das Aktionsbündnis deutscher Behindertenverbände: https://www.deutscher-behindertenrat.de/ (in German)

The Bundesvereinigung Lebenshilfe defines itself as a self-help association, parents', professional and supporting association for people with intellectual disabilities and their families / Die Bundesvereinigung Lebenshilfe: https://www.lebenshilfe.de/ (in German)

Wahrsmannshof - Natur- und Umweltbildung am Reeser Meer gGmbH: Training courses for nature and landscape guides. On request - informative training material, with special attention to the visually impaired and blind (in German): https://www.wahrsmannshof.de/

Hungary

Hungary4all - a Hungarian organisation offering barrier free tours but also consultancy on barrier free access: http://www.hungary4all.com/ (in English, German, Hungarian)

Spain

ONCE Foundation for Cooperation and the Social Inclusion of the Disabled (English, Spanish): https://www.once.es/otras-webs/english

UK

Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB): https://www.rnib.org.uk/

Easy Read Online: making information easy: https://www.easy-read-online.co.uk/