Groups for Deaf, Hard of Hearing Concerned About ‘Process’ for Relay Equipment
Consumer groups for the deaf and hard of hearing want the video relay services access technology reference platform open-source user software and interoperability profile for relay user equipment (RUE profile) to continue, provided that “concerns about process and direction have…
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been addressed.” In a Friday filing in docket 03-123, the groups told the FCC it's “essential that the process follow inclusive design practices, further to the principle of ‘nothing about us without us.’” The FCC last year gave VRS providers another year, until April 29, to implement the RUE profile with certain VRS devices (see 1804270020). The letter’s signers include Telecommunications for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, National Association of the Deaf, American Association of the DeafBlind, Deaf Seniors of America, Cerebral Palsy and Deaf Organization, Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf and the Hearing Loss Association of America.