deaf
RSS deaf1:1 Learning Solution Opens Vistas for Low-Vision Students
White Paper The Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (FSDB) is part of the Florida public school system. Founded in 1885, the school serves over 850 students who are blind/visually-impaired or deaf/hard-of-hearing and their families in pre-kindergarten... [02 Mar 2006]
MobileASL: Intelligibility of Sign Language Video as Constrained by Mobile Phone Technology
White Paper For Deaf people, access to the mobile telephone network in the United States is currently limited to text messaging, forcing communication in English as opposed to American Sign Language (ASL), the preferred language. [01 Aug 2007]
Enabling Communication With the Help of Technology
White Paper The critical component of the Kansas School for the Deaf's communication initiative was in its keyboarding curriculum. The Kansas School for the Deaf began by purchasing Dell OptiPlex desktops and a PowerEdge 2650 server. [27 Sep 2005]
Harnessing the Power of IP Telephony in the Contact Center
White Paper Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD) has been providing communication services for the nation's deaf and hard of hearing community for over 30 years. For CSD, the initial challenge was to get their new subsidiary up and running, using the most... [10 Jan 2008]
Nildram's Broadband Solutions Silence Leased-Line Services
White Paper As part of its commitment of achieving a better quality of life for deaf and hard of hearing people, RNID campaigns vigorously for equal opportunities, provides information and raises awareness of deafness and hearing conditions such as tinnitus... [03 Jul 2008]
"NTS 6.0 Security Issues"
White Paper Once the NTS client software program is installed on a networked computer, this computer becomes accessible to the TTY devices used by the deaf and other NTS users for both incoming and outgoing calls and messages. [05 Dec 2007]
"NTS 6.0 Security Issues"
Once the NTS client software program is installed on a networked computer, this computer becomes accessible to the TTY devices used by the deaf and other NTS users for both incoming and outgoing calls and messages. [06 Dec 2007]
Cyber Britain welcomes the 'disadvantaged'
Comment John Low, chief executive of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf described the internet as "critical" for deaf people, who become the equal of hearing people in both the workplace and at home when using things like chat rooms and instant... [13 May 2003]
MPs call for better web access
News Wyatt said that more websites should use text-to-speech or text-to-Braille software to include deaf and blind people. APIG has said that pre-lingually deaf people could benefit from such software because English could be almost as inaccessible as... [19 Nov 2004]
With partners like these... more Dome doom
Comment My mum explained that my dad was deaf and that BT should send a special handset for deaf people. More buttons than you could shake a stick at but not for deaf people. The old handset works a treat as it is specially for deaf people and the new... [24 Nov 2000]
The Hearing Majority of Caption Viewers
White Paper Summary: Hearing people are now almost certainly the main audience of closed-captioning, outnumbering deaf viewers by a factor of several hundred. [06 Aug 2004]
Multichat: Persistent, Text-as-You-Type Messaging in a Web Browser for Fluid Multi-Person Interaction and Collaboration
White Paper To facilitate face to face conversation between deaf and hearing participants, the authors created a cross-platform, browser-based, persistent text-as-you-type system that aggregates each individual's utterances in revisable personal notes on a... [07 Mar 2006]
IT managers: How well do you communicate?
White Paper Do you turn a deaf ear to your staff when they suggest there are merits to Enterprise JavaBeans? Do you tend to zealously defend technology, even if it has not been proven yet? Perhaps your communication skills aren't what they should be. [17 May 2006]
Disabled and elderly excluded by new technology
News The Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) and the Disabled Living Foundation (DLF) claim many disabled and older people are still excluded from the "information society", and have drawn up an eInclusion charter to try and address the problem. [15 May 2006]
NTS Security Issues
White Paper An organization-wide NTS system can make potentially every employee with a networked computer accessible to the deaf in a cost effective manner. NTS improves network security by removing analog phone lines from networked computers, but it focuses... [24 Feb 2004]
