The Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing communities depend on Video Relay Service, an essential platform that ensures equal access to telecommunications services. Every American with a phone bill pays ...
"CUTTING OUR health care is a sick idea!" read the signs carried by strikers on a picket line outside Purple Communications in San Diego, where American Sign Language (ASL) video relay service (VRS) ...
For people who are deaf or hearing-impaired and use traditional phone relay services, making a phone call to order pizza or just getting a call from a friend can be a lengthy process. Although the ...
SALT LAKE CITY, UT--(Marketwired - Aug 11, 2016) - Today, Sorenson Communications, the leader in breaking down communication barriers between the Deaf and hearing, announced it will expand its ...
Meta's Portal devices are now much more practical for the deaf and hard of hearing. The social media giant has teamed with ZP Better Together to enable Video Relay Services (VRS) on Portal hardware ...
Jeff Kelly used to tell his girlfriend, Terri Vincent, that before calling him at work she should “be prepared with what you want to say.” Kelly, a 29-year-old Frederick, Md., resident, wasn’t being ...
Trent Gobble stands at the front of a Spectrum store in Henrietta, opens the camera on his phone and scans a QR code on a sheet of paper stationed on a small stand facing the door. A link pops up, ...
Priya May has been the voice of hundreds. “You have a customer using sign language contacting you with the Purple VRS system,” May, 31, spoke into a headset to the man who picked up at Seattle’s MOD ...