With the Uni, hearing people and deaf people can talk to each other like it’s no thing. In the 1960s, when phone companies launched an early version of texting called TTY, deaf customers could ...

Paul Taylor was born deaf, this in 1939, an era when people so physically different were labeled misfits. As such, his parents did not see a promising future for their son in Alabama. By the time ...

The system is rife with problems. Most deaf households have switched to some kind of videophone, which allows users to speak in sign language. But prisons across the country still use the outmoded ...

found that only 19% of deaf inmates have access to TTY systems in "good working condition." But TTYs are also just outdated. The deaf community has largely moved on to video relay screens ...

For the deaf like Niesluchowski and Hager, advances in wireless communications represent a breakthrough perhaps more significant than the text teletypewriter, or TTY, which first allowed the deaf ...

A message can be e-mailed, faxed or sent to a text telephone, or TTY device, a standard tool for the deaf that allows text messages to be sent over telephone lines. The pager, supported by Wynd ...

A piece of communications history that allowed people who are deaf to make their own phone calls for the first time is on permanent display at RIT’s Wallace Library. One of the two modems used for the ...

If you are a deaf person in an emergency ... answering all calls as RTT/TTY, and turning on hardware TTY (you will need specialized TTY hardware to use this feature). Is RTT a replacement for ...

Before technology expanded to include the Internet, those with hearing impairments relied on TTY (a teletypewriter for the deaf) and TDD (a telecommunication device for the deaf) for communicating ...

Most deaf households have switched to some kind of videophone, which allows users to speak in sign language. But prisons across the country still use the outmoded system, known as TTY or TDD ...