Accessibility Recommendations

• Transition

  • Backward compatibility with TTY needs to be maintained -- in spite of problems of VoIP carriage of TTY

    • Gateway conversion recommended

  • Wireless: It would "ease the transition" to build TTY calling capability into smartphones (SK, Blackberry, Treo for example) in the meantime

    • Location identification is provided already

    • PSAPs already equipped to take the call

    • Network already equipped to handle TTY

    • Just the handset need software changes