Wireless Text Devices - Gaps

Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons

• Wireless coverage not uniformly available

• Wireless devices w/text not always interoperable

• Devices and cost of monthly service not affordable for many

• Lack of portable pagers/PDAs with screens and keys readable

for deafblind

• Text message information often brief; assumes consumer will

go to radio or TV for more information, or make phone call