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Why won't anyone think of the deaf?
- cfinke 14y agoI implore you Web Developers and Designers to simply have a checkbox: Don’t ring me, I’m deaf. Alternatively, "Don't ring me, I greatly dislike speaking on the phone when e-mail will suffice."
- pavel_lishin 14y agoI was under the impression that most deaf people had phones - they're multi-purpose devices, now, and the phone functionality is a tiny part of what I use mine for. If I were deaf, I'd probably ask someone to record a voicemail explaining that I'm deaf and that calling me will do no good, and offer alternatives, and then enter that phone number into web forms.
- burntwater 14y agoOften these sign-up processes will call the number you give and an automated voice will verbally tell you a PIN type code (numbers or letters) which you have to type into the sign-up screen to continue the process. The voicemail would never be heard by a human.
- meric 14y agoThe automatic voices I imagine will be more easily transcripted by software.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoHey, you just found a niche! I wonder if this is something Google Voice/Twilio could be scripted to handle.
- meric 14y agoIf it hasn't been done already I'd be thoroughly disappointed. =| All the phone software needs to do when receiving a call is 1. Try to transcript the incoming audio and email it to the user. 2. Broadcast the voice message saying the receiver is physically unable to take phone calls.
- Frozenlock 14y agoNot only that, but think of those WHO DON'T HAVE PHONES. I now have a cell phone that I use around 10 min per month. I could easily do without it... but everywhere they expect you to have one. I could understand an email address, but a phone number? Why?
- fossuser 14y agoI'd imagine the overlap between people who are using web applications and don't have cellphones is extremely small.