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December 24, 2005

ADA and Relay Calls (US) NAD lawsuit.

by @ 4:45 pm. Filed under Politics, Accessibility

The URL below links to an article which describes a case taken against an organisation for refusing to accept relay calls, who also didn’t provide a TTY number for customers to use. For those of you who don’t use telephones for voice it may be a useful reference.

http://www.nad.org/site/pp.asp?c=foINKQMBF&b=1153171

I don’t know if there have been similar cases anywhere else, but if anyone knows of any, shove them in comments for archives purposes.

3 Responses to “ADA and Relay Calls (US) NAD lawsuit.”

  1. Sara :

    Huh. I can’t even begin to imagine how an organization would go about refusing a relay call. They’d have to have their heads buried *so* far up their… UGH. Idiots. *grr*

  2. Sanctum1972 :

    Sara, I agree…they are this dumb and need to go the way of the dodo.

  3. Natalya (User Verified) :

    Half the problem is that people just don’t know about relay calls either in their own homes or at workplaces. I’ll start a new thread on it, cos it’s UK specific, and I posted this as a legislation/lawsuit topic.

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