May I suggest Bill Brown Guitar by ear.  His webpage is:
http://www.musicvi.com
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> Steve, I've played guitar for about 36 years.  There is no system out
there for
> learning fretting for chords.  All the charts used by sighted folks are
pretty
> much useless for blind folks.  The state library system has a few books
> available for beginning guitar players but I've found the best way to
learn
> chords for me is knowing the notes of the strings (ebgdae) and figuring
out
> where notes are located from there.  This requires a little music theory
so may
> not work for you.  If you're looking for specific chords drop me a note
and I'd
> be glad to help.  Remember that there are no absolutely correct fingerings
but
> some will make chord changes easier than others and you will want to use
one
> fingering for a specific chord in some situations and another in others.
>
> The guitar is what my students call "good fun" once you've got the chords
and
> can work on learning right hand techniques without having to think about
where
> your left fingrs go so often.  With restringing your guitar could be a
right
> handed guitar if you want to play backward -- well probably more correctly
its
> called a left handed because its what left handed folks play <g>.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>