Phones for deaf people
– posted May 4th, 2006 by Colm McBarron No comments
How different types of people interact with different technologies has always fascinated me, from observing user tests of websites (do we have that user test article yet?) to watching someone use an iPod for the first time.
One recent observation while onsite with a client was a deaf person using a mobile phone.
Now you say “but they’re deaf how can they use a phone?”
From my work with various disability organisations I had been aware that deaf people use text messages quite a lot from texting out an address for a taxi driver to asking for something in Tescos.
But this person wasn’t texting they were in fact signing to someone using one of those new Vodafone video phones!
I’m sure Vodafone or any of the other mobile operators didn’t imagine that their video service would give deaf people such a improvement in communication.
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