Why is Real Time Text important to people who are deaf or hard of hearing?
In addition to its many applications for fully hearing people, Real-Time Text is important as an alternative to voice communications for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It allows a more natural, bi-directional flow of text based conversation to take place compared with the “type-enter-wait-read-response-reply” technology of IM and SMS. In fact: when Real-Time Text is fully mainstream, it will be solving one of the biggest accessibility problems of Internet communications for people who are deaf or hard of hearing!
