Hearing Aid Compatibility
Final Rule (1995)

  • Elaborate schedule for phones in workplaces, hotels, health care facilities

  • Amplification required

  • Labeling on phones required

  • Consumer-industry success . . .

  • . . . until H.R. 1892 introduced by Rep. Hoekstra and Oxley, supported by Rep. Ehrlich . . . but defeated.

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