Visual Access to Communication Technologies

Paradigm Shift in Society’s View of Visual Communication

Overview

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Recent Public Policy on Communications Technology

The ‘90s:  A Golden Age of Visual Communications                          

Internet Live Chat

WorldWide Web

The TTY            

Moving from Analog to Digital

Computer-TTY Integration

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Examples of VCO Phones

Internet Relay?

Video Relay Service and Video Relay Interpreting

Video Telecommunications

Video Conversation over Internet

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The Wireless Future

Wireless Telephones and TTYs

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Phone and Personal Digital Assistant Combinations

Captioned Television

Captioned Computer Video

Transcription Services

Automatic Speech Recognition

What areas of research will be important?