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Comment:
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TAG brings together national and regional organisations concerned with electronic communications for deaf people. It aims to:
discuss and reach a consensus viewpoint to put to Government, Ofcom, telecoms and broadcasting companies, local authorities amd other relevant parties;
provide advice to service providers, equipment manufacturers and organisations;
ensure that deaf people can and do have the means to make full use of electronic communications;
encourage compatibility of electronic communications for deaf people in the UK and worldwide.
Telephone services for deaf people include Typetalk and Direct Textphone Access. Typetalk-Relay Service enables voice telephone users and text telephone users to communicate with each other. An operator at Typetalk relays the voice message by typing it to the textphone user. Direct Textphone Access enables anyone with a textphone to have direct typed conversations with another textphone user. Access services for broadcasting include subtitling, signed programmes and audio description.
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