A new civil right : telecommunications equality for deaf and hard of hearing Americans

A new civil right : telecommunications equality for deaf and hard of hearing Americans / Karen Peltz Strauss.

"More than 300 years ago a physicist, Guillaume Amontons, stood on a hillside in Meudon, France, and, using a series of windmills, sent a message to Belleville and then to Paris. He received a response by similar signals, letters of the alphabet attached to the windmill vanes, which were read w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strauss, Karen Peltz (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Telecommunications devices for deaf people > History.
Closed captioning.
Deaf people > Government policy.
Deaf people > Civil rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
LAW / General
Closed captioning
Deaf > Civil rights
Deaf > Government policy
Telecommunications devices for the deaf
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • A Movement is born
  • The Focus shifts
  • Entering the mainstream of telephone communications
  • A Federal relay interlude
  • Relay goes nation
  • Relay reality
  • David versus Goliath
  • In case of an emergency
  • Captioning is launched
  • The stage is set
  • Full and equal television access
  • A Compatible world becomes undone
  • The Restoration of hearing aid compatible telephones
  • A Wireless world
  • A Federal law for universal design
  • The Access law takes on meaing
  • TTYs and wireless retrofittiing
  • Postscript: A Light at the end of the tunnel.

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