The Massachusetts Alliance of Visually Impaired Students (MAVIS) is a non-profit organization committed to giving visually impaired students in New England a strong network of support and a powerful public voice on issues like textbook accessibility and fairness in standardized testing. We support OurMoneyToo.org, a volunteer group working to make U.S. paper money accessible by feel.
Click here to become a MAVIS member or renew your membership.
Click here to play welcome message.
There are currently no MAVIS notices.
We offer a couple of weekly
conference calls to help our members
stay in touch and do the business of the organization. We also
schedule social events where
our members can meet and relax together. Our
recent outings have included a dinner out, a trip to a described
play, and a holiday party.
MAVIS was founded to increase
educational opportunities for visually impaired students within
Massachusetts.
To read about the political efforts of MAVIS so far, and to find out what we have planned for the future, visit our business page. So that we can better inform our members and other interested people about the political issues currently affecting the lives of visually impaired students in Massachusetts, we have created our political issues page. We also include a summary of disability rights laws.
A number of organizations offer scholarships for visually impaired
college students. We offer a list of these on our
scholarships page.
We have compiled a list of resources on the internet.
Our list includes information about organizations,
sports, dog guide schools, technology vendors, and much more.
Note: being listed here does not necessarily imply an endorsement by
the Massachusetts Alliance of Visually Impaired Students.
MAVIS offers an email list that we use to keep
in touch with each other, share announcements such as
new scholarships and MAVIS events, and to stay on top of issues
of interest to blind and low-vision students. If you
would like to subscribe to this email list, please
send email by clicking this
link: add me to the MAVIS mailing list.
By the way, we recently left Yahoo as our mailing list because of their
unresponsiveness to the concerns of the blind community in requiring
the use of vision in their registration process (this is called CAPTCHA).
If you do not wish to participate in the general discussion list,
but would like to receive our public announcements, please send this fact,
along with your email
address, to us (see "contact MAVIS" below).
Some of our members maintain Blogs and Websites that reflect their interests.
You can browse them from the Members' Websites page.
Other MAVIS pages you may find useful include
Assistive Technology,
Games,
Sports and Sports Organizations,
The Bookport Cheat Sheet,
Books for Leisure Reading,
E-Books,
Textbooks and Educational Materials,
Catalogues: Gadgets and Novelties,
Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts,
Dog Guides,
Legislative Resources,
Massachusetts Resources, and
Research at NIST.
MAVIS would like to thank the following for their generous support:
You can donate to MAVIS online.