[NJTechDiv] an unusual question.

[Serena Cucco]

Hi Ken,

If Susan has a smartphone, you can text her using your eReader as a Braille
display, without having to turn on settings related to being deaf.  I do it
using my Humanware Braille display with my deaf-blind friend all the time!

Serena

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM Joseph Hudson via NJTechDiv <
njtechdiv at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> I've never messed with the RTT on an iPhone, but I have messed with it on
> android. And it works as you have described. When you call her, you can
> enable RTT once she answers. If you use an android device. I've never
> looked at it using an iPhone.
> Joseph Hudson
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> On Feb 25, 2025, at 2:54 PM, ken lawrence via NJTechDiv <
> njtechdiv at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hi list ken with a question.  I have a deaf friend in Connecticut I use
> the NJ relay to talk to her.  I wrote an article for the braille monitor
> but I don't think it was ever published.  I have long ago discarded the
> braille draft.  this was way back in 2016.  since that time of course I
> have an Iphone.  my question is if I enable the RTT/TTY function on the
> phone in accessibility, and if I used the NLS braille reader as a keyboard
> and the display in braille can I call her directly will the reader or
> perhaps voice-over read back what susan types and will I be able to send
> that way. Also to read what she types would I need to turn on auto scroll?
> can this be done or do I need to have a TTY device connected to the phone.
> I do see Software TTY and hardware TTY in the settings.  I know verizon
> said for a regular flip phone you need a special adapter and the TTY
> machine but I wonder with the iphone if a keyboard plus display connected
> by bluetooth and that software/hardware setting in the Iphone i might be
> possible to connect with susan directly.  I wish that article i wrote had
> been published.  I know garry wunder did see it and apparently jane saw
> it.  susan was and is a very special memory to me from my years at the
> oakhill school for the blind in Hartford.  anyone have thoughts on this?
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