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205 lines
3.5 KiB
HTML
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>Hearing Impaired</TITLE
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NAME="GENERATOR"
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+
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TITLE="Linux Accessibility HOWTO"
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TITLE="Visual Impairments"
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>Linux Accessibility HOWTO</TH
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NAME="hearing">4. Hearing Impaired</H1
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>For users who have hearing impairments the audio output must be conveyed visually on the screen. Most desktops provide
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visual audio alerts and warnings. In console mode the system can also be configured to provide visual bells. There is a
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"Visual Bells mini-HOWTO" written by Alessandro Rubini that provides the configuration details available at:
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HREF="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/</A
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NAME="AEN315">4.1. Assistive Technologies for the Hearing Impaired</H2
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>The following is a list of assistive technologies for the hearing impaired:</P
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NAME="AEN318">4.1.1. Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf (TDD)</H3
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>TDD allows for the user you to communicate over the telephone using the
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computer as a text terminal.</P
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> Zapata </STRONG
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>is a computer-based, high-density telephony project. The current version
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is available for download as source code on at:
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HREF="http://www.zapatatelephony.org/project.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.zapatatelephony.org/project.html</A
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NAME="AEN326">4.1.2. Closed Captioning</H3
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>Closed captioning provides text translation of spoken words to video display. Closed captioning can be used for distance
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learning, video-teleconferencing, audio from a CD-ROM, and other types of interactive technology.</P
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><STRONG
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>Ccdecoder </STRONG
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>is a closed captioned, extended data services decoder for the bttv
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and video4linux based tv video cards:
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HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ccdecoder/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://sourceforge.net/projects/ccdecoder/</A
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>Prev</A
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