Text communication gets a new look

A new website, http://www.textrelay.org/ has been designed to ensure that deaf, hearing impaired and speech impaired people, their families, friends and business contacts are all aware of all the communication options available to them.

The site includes information on how to use the UK’s Text Relay service and highlights other options such as using the Internet to make a text relay call using VOIP as well as other online alternatives such as using a web cam, which is popular amongst British Sign Language (BSL) users. The site also includes content in BSL.

Lilian Lawson, OBE, SCoD Director, “The Scottish Council on Deafness welcomes the new website because it offers a one stop shop for text communication, thus making it easier for deaf people to find relevant information about text communication and equipment. This will enable deaf people to make right communication choices for their daily life.”

http://www.textrelay.org/ replaces the typetalk website and marks the consolidation of UK text-based communications services under the one name - Text Relay. The text relay service, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, enables deaf, hearing impaired and speech impaired people to communicate directly using textphones or via a text relay assistant for text-to-voice and voice-to-text translation if they wish to communicate with someone using a standard telephone.

For more information visit http://www.textrelay.org/ or contact Text Relay Customer Support on 18001 0800 7311 888.

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