Apple and AT&T Partner to Help Hearing-Impaired Experience Better With iPhone
Apple and AT&T, along with ZVRS, a developer of video relay software for the hearing and speaking impaired, are teaming up to help make the experience of the iOS more accessible by bringing video relaying software to the iPhone 4. Video relay software allow people who cannot speak, hear, or are hard of hearing to communicate with anyone as the software interprets what they are saying and translates it to the receiver. iZ, the name for their new software, will not be brought to the iPhone 4 with the help of Apple and AT&T.
ZVRS hosted a show-and-tell party at the Hard Rock Café in Philadelphia on Wednesday, July 8. The company showcased the software and announced that it will be released on July 26 of 2010 to honor the 20th anniversary of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. It wasnt disclosed at the event, however, whether the service would be conducted over Wi-Fi only or AT&Ts data network. At the moment, Apples FaceTime is only available through Wireless Fidelities (Wi-Fi).
The software garnered high praise at the event, including from Karen Putz, author of the blog A Deaf Mom Shares Her World. She stated on her blog that hundreds of people watched in amazement as three people from the attendance conducted a FaceTime call.
“It was absolutely amazing to watch each of them communicate via using a cell phone. How many of us have dreamed of that day? The day is here!”
Prior to this engagement, Apple has already been marketing the FaceTime feature and video capabilities of the new iPhone as a means for people who are mute and deaf to communicate.
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Uh, it’s ok to call them “the Deaf,” seriously: that’s what they call themselves. Deaf people – with a capital D – are those that use ASL as their primary form of communication.
Deaf people never call themselves “the Hearing Impaired” (to them that means hard of hearing folks)
All these articles tripping over themselves and not just calling the Deaf what they are.
(I worked for years in the Deaf community, am fluent in ASL and even went to Gallaudet for grad school so trust me on this)
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