The Federal Communications Commission is making big moves to help those with disabilities communicate. In a recent ruling, the FCC determined that it would replace the long-standing teletypewriter ...

Calling home from prison is cumbersome and expensive. For deaf people behind bars, it’s even tougher, sometimes impossible. The technology provided to deaf people in most US prisons is a ...

AT&T yesterday accused T-Mobile and Sprint of violating federal rules that require wireless networks to be compatible with technology for people with hearing and speech disabilities. AT&T says ...

When there's an emergency, a deaf person's primary way of calling 911 is still a clunky machine that looks like it should've gone the way of the fax machine and typewriter. For Aaron Bangor, the lead ...

Deaf people don’t usually carry cell phones, but they haven’t been shut out of the communications revolution. Over the last three years, their lives have been transformed by two-way pagers. The pagers ...

DANBURY - Morton Warnow is "a good man whose heart is in the right place." With these words, Dianne Wixted, director of counseling services for the state Commission on Deaf & Hearing Impaired, ...

RTT, or real-time text, sends text messages immediately as you type them, without requiring you to hit send. For RTT to work, you need a wireless handset like an iPhone or Android phone using IP-based ...

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