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From: Stu.Turk@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Stu Turk)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Deaf And/or Hearing Impai
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Date: 22 Mar 91 05:52:21 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

 KK>  The Compact TDD is a new TDD that is very portable--you just fold
 KK>  it up and snap it shut when you are done on the phone.  It is
 KK>  fairly small--about the size of  slightly more than a third of a
 KK>  standard sheet of paper. (9" x  5"?) (folded up)  It has a
 KK>  backlit LCD display with two lines of dialogue visible.  You can

    The problem I can see is that the LCD displays are often hard to read and
unlike LED's, you more or less need to be right in front of the screen to read
it - making it unuseable for typing to someone standing next to you (that is,
someone who doesn't use sign language.  One advantage it has over the regular
TDD's LEDs though is that the letters don't move...

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