Enjoy exploring this collection of sites that sell assistive technology products specifically for people with low vision or legal blindness. This is by no means meant as a comprehensive list, but as a resource to get you started with your exploration of the range of available low vision devices on the market.
- This list excludes blindness only products such as braille displays in order to focus on those that assist VIP’s in making the most use out of their remaining vision.
- An asterisk in front of a manufacturer/vendor indicates I have had personal experience with some of their products and consider them providers of high-quality, effective equipment.
Vispero Brands
Headquarters: Clearwater, Florida
*Freedom Scientific
- Video Magnifiers
- Desktop
- Portable (larger than handheld, come in multiple forms)
- Transportable (camera on arm variety)
- Handheld (pocket-sized)
- Screen magnification software
Optelec
- Video Magnifiers
- Desktop
- Transportable
- Portable
- Handheld
- Tablet
- Wearable
- Lamps and lighting
Enhanced Vision
- Video Magnifiers
- Desktop
- Portable
- Handheld
- Wearable
Other Primary Brands
*HIMS Inc.
HQ: Austin, Texas
- Video Magnifiers
- Transportable
Humanware
Corporate HQ: Drummondville, Quebec, Canada | US HQ: Concord, California
- Video Magnifiers
- Desktop
- Portable
- Handheld
- Tablet
- Wearable
- OCR reading machines
- Audio assistant software
- Daisy players
*LVI
Stands for Low Vision International
HQ: Växjö, Sweden | US HQ: Riverwoods, Illinois
- Video Magnifiers
- Desktop
- Portable
- Handheld
- Tablet (smart multi-modal devices)
- Wearable
- OCR reading machines
- Magnification software
- Large print keyboards
Patriot Vision Industries aka. Magnifying America
HQ: Ocala, Florida
- Video Magnifiers
- Desktop
- Portable
- Handheld
- Tablet
- Wearable
Eschenback Optik
Based-in: Nuremberg, Germany | US HQ: Danbury, Connecticut
- Video Magnifiers
- Desktop
- Portable
- Handheld
- Specialty glasses/filters
- Stand magnifiers
- Binoculars/monoculars
- Telescopes
- Many types of optical magnifiers
- Used devices
Irie-AT
HQ: Corvallis, Oregon
- Video Magnifiers
- Desktop
- Portable
- Handheld
- Tablet
- Wearable
- Also sells products by other manufactures
- Refurbished units
Zoomax
- Video Magnifiers
- Desktop
- Portable
- Handheld
- Wearable
VisioBraille GmbH
Successor to Baum
- Video Magnifiers
- Desktop
- Portable
Wearable Manufacturers
Cyber Timez
Cyber Eyes VR
Vision Buddy
Vision Buddy V.2
IrisVision
Models:
- Inspire
- Live
Patriot Vision Industries
Patriot Viewpoint
Acesight by Zoomax
- Acesight
- Acesight S
- AceSight VR
NuEyes
- Nueyes Pro 3
- Nueyes E2+
Enhanced Vision
Jordy
Eyedaptic
- Eye2
- Eye3
- Eye4
Third-Party Vendors
Magnified Life
Apex, North Carolina
Quintex
Asheville, North Carolina | Raleigh, North Carolina
New England Low Vision
Worcester, Massachusetts
Maxiaids
Farmingdale, New York
Independent Living Aids
Buffalo, New York
LS&S
Buffalo, New York
The Low Vision Store (.net)
Vancouver, Washington
The Low Vision Store (.com)
St. Paul, Minnesota
Oasis Scientific Inc.
Taylors, South Carolina
Did I miss one?
For suggestions of manufacturers or vendors of low vision products to be added to this resource list, please email [email protected]