Comments on: What makes a mobile device “deaf-friendly”?

By: DG

DG — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:55:37 +0000

Did anyone invent a new app that would vibrate much longer and intense whenever we get email or sms from anyone yet?

By: mstrmac

mstrmac — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:44:03 +0000

Correction. If you have a wifi or strong 3g connection, only your iPhone is needed for a WebCapTel call.

By: mstrmac

mstrmac — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:10:15 +0000

Thanks Leslie…I am in the Dark ages. I did not realize a neckloop would help be hear better on a iPhone.. It works. But like you i need captions to see what i miss in conversations, especially those voices which are not familiar.

Mobile web captel is especially promising. Only wish it could be done on one 3g device instead of having two mobile phones.

Oh by the way. I have had trouble getting the volume increased on my iMac in the default. No more room for increase i thought. I recently saw in the system preference panel the Universal access icon and within that panel you can increase the sound much higher than the default.
This will allow higher volume on itunes and amazon movie downloads and on-demand movies as well.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:12:50 +0000

Well now? What exactly is a deaf friendly phone? I am severe/profound loss person. I believed all the garbage about iPHone not being compatible. One day I plugged in my neckloop and found out the phone works fine for me. OH i still have troulbe haering the other party well. However, Hamilton Captel and Sprint Captel web sites have captioning phone service at no charge. I also use phonetag.com to intercept my voice mails and transcribes them to text then sends to me. I dont even ans my phone now. I just let them go to voice/text and read the msgs and athen use hamiltoncaptel and return the calls. Lets get w the program folks. I have been severe hard of hearing all my life. I have never waited ro someone else to do things for me. I am a successful manager and computer consultant thanks greatly to the new services and the excellent interface provided by apple via iPhone. I say all blessings to apple for helping me make things work as well as to Hamilton and Sprint. I use voice dialer app on iPhone as well to make dialing easier. So all praises to the apple community. Much care and regards to my fellow hoh iPhone users. Leslie

By: Mark H

Mark H — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:26:12 +0000

Often I get video messages via several VRS providers and cannot view them on my non-window devices. I’m wondering if anyone can view WMV format via iPhone or iPod Touch?

By: mstrmac

mstrmac — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:34:11 +0000

I would still like to be able to hear using using the iPhone. After playing around with high quality in-the-ear headphones while answering calls, i am unable to get the volume high enough to consistently understand whats being said while not knowing the subject of what is spoken to me.
The iPhone needs a higher volume adjustment. Can’t find any apps to help in answering calls, but the app would need to run in the background anyway in which the iPhone cannot do..
Does anyone know if there are headphones with adjustable volume controls?

By: Jon S.

Jon S. — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:42:57 +0000

Lormar Logic provides free wireless TTY calling services to the deaf community in the United States. Free TTY and relay operator calls can be made from virtually any cell phone browser at our call gateway, http://www.ttycall.com.

We have recently received a number of questions from deaf asking if this service works from the iPhone. We have tested the iPhone, and we are pleased to report that it works. You can call any TTY or relay directly from the browser.

One thing we noticed, though, is that the native fonts are very small on the screen. Zooming is certainly possible, but this tends to disrupt the natural flow of the call. We are considering providing a custom gateway for the iPhone, as we have done with other unique devices.

Of course, the deaf always have the option of carrying around a portable TTY and using voice minutes for these calls, as the manual describes.

By: jk-II

jk-II — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:47:25 +0000

Last week, Apple announced that they will open the iPhone to third party developers. It would be VERY cool if one of the VRS providers jumped right in to make voice to video messages viewable on the iPhone. The iPhone does have excellent video capability but – at present – it cannot display V2V messages sent in WMV or Flash format.

Easy fast solution: send those V2W messages to iPhone users using a Quicktime format!

My guess is that the first VRS provider to make V2V messages compatible with the iPhone will get some loyal customers who will not change providers later.

HINT HINT HINT!!!

By: mac newbie

mac newbie — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:29:06 +0000

I do not see any email address (info@deafmac.org?)to ask questions so i had to post this qtn in this discussion which is off point.
Is there any software that develops homepage like dreamweaver for mac user? any tips? Would iweb be good?

By: Silentredwolf

Silentredwolf — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:51:48 +0000

I like the look of iphone but not Deaf friendly but what about Helio, did compare iPhone and Helio. Helio are far much better than IPhone but dont know if this is Deaf friendly or not. Comments?