Sailability Victoria, previously Sailing for Everyone
An organisation facilitating sailing for every person, concentrating on
sailing in the Access Dinghy range of yachts. Based in Victoria but growing
and spreading worldwide. I'm president of the Docklands club and designed
and maintain the website. Sailability An organisation facilitating sailing for every person, regardless
of age or disability. This is now an International organisation that has
grown from an Australian base largely using Australian yachts. Access Dinghies Boat designers and
builders of the Access 2.3 and 303 yachts for use by everyone. Albert Park Yacht Club, where Colin
was a member and Class Captain, has their own site detailing the classes
of yachts sailied and other club details. Disabled
WinterSport Australia is a multi-facetted, self help sporting organisation
which prides itself on its ability to enjoy the magnificent environment
that is Australia's Snowy Mountains, and equally importantly, enjoy it
with fellow skiers. Victorian Water Ski Association, Disabled Division A group who concentrate on water-skiing for both enjoyment and
competition for people with disabilities. New
South Wales Wheelchair Sports Association
Interesting site with a great collection of links on one page. The Wheellife the social and lifestyle website Cool Mobility is a company that has a mission to commercialise technology designed and conceived by Colin Johanson and Moira McEwan, as well as others. TrackChair is similar in operation to a conventional wheelchair however it has one very distinctive difference: it has two hand rims on each side of the chair. Drive just with one hand or gain a 2:1 reduction drive for two handed pushing and braking. aIDEAS is an advanced technology project based ideas-house using demonstrators as a way of showing new inclusive design concepts. Lu Papi & Associates Freedom Wheelchair designed for active paraplegics and is intended to reduce barriers to travel and independence. The chair's unique axel-less design allows the user's everyday chair to be quickly converted to a commode for use over a toilet or in a shower.
I have included
links that have quality and mostly free services/products that are useful
to people in a webmaster type role. There are
links on graphics,
general stuff *
Color Cop v5.3 converts RGB decimal values to RGB Hexadecimal
Triplets. It has a built in color picker, color preview, auto copy to
clipboard, and an eyedropper to choose colors anywhere on the screen.
Runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP. Superfast freeware. *
IrfanView, a new improved version, is a fast
and functional (freeware) (with great thumbnail viewing) image viewer/converter
for Win95/98/NT. Supported file formats: JPG/JPEG, GIF, BMP/DIB/RLE, PCX/DCX,
PNG, TIFF, TGA, RAS/SUN, ICO, CUR/ANI, AVI, WAV, MID/RMI, WMF, EMF, PSD,
PSP, CPT, PBM/PGM/PPM, IFF/LBM, EPS, CLP, CAM, LWF, AIF, MPG/MPEG, MOV,
SND/AU, G3, SFW, DAT (Video CD), RealAudio, KDC and Photo-CD. Megaconverter
2 Check out this site as it has ALL the conversions
you'd ever want. Quite an amazing site. Twirl the dial around and around
and you get more and more conversion calculator options. Bed and Breakfast at 62 Langford Parade, Paynesville, Vic. A local BnB of one bedroom with private shower, toilet and access door. I helped to set up their basic website. Sports sites
created for wheelchair users and their
wider community.Disability equipment design
General interest sites
Useful Links
(*
denotes personal favourites).
Last revised 3 February 2001.