The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), States, exhibited at theinternational Consumer Electronics Show along with the Sendero Group Stevie Wonder was also there to advocate more blind-friendly consumer electronics and mobile devices. Although he currently uses a BlackBerry, he...
Sprint now offers "Call Now' service for deaf and hearing-impaired users. It lets Sprint Relay Customers receive calls through their personal 10-digit local phone number. The services include video viewing and instant messaging. Sprint announced the availability of local,...
Sprint now offers WebCapTel On the Go, a new, free mobile web-based service that allows hard of hearing customers to read word-for-word captions on Windows Mobile 6 Web browsers. The service is also compatible with the Safari 2.0 Web browser....
Nuance Communications, provider of speech and predictive text solutions, and Nokia have entered into a agreement to deliver innovative mobile speech and predictive text capabilities for Nokia mobile devices worldwide. Nokia will use Nuance's mobile input solutions to provide...
A group at the University of Washington has developed software that deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone. UW engineers had phones working together this spring, and recently received a National Science Foundation grant...