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VP Biden announced Kareem Dale who is partially blind and is a black person selected as Special Assistant to the President for Disability issues.
Check out his blog, and read, and gain insight of who the person is.
Check out pixes of him.
Hope he will be a good representative for all variet of disabilities.
eyes open & thumbs up,
Ed
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This is another series on LN.
Let’s say you have one VP – oh let’s use VP-200 as an example because that is the VP majority of VRS users use. You decide to have SorensonVRS as your default provider. Can you call other VRS providers with VP-200? Absolutely! Just add other VRS providers to the address book. That is one rule from the relay regulation.
Same thing for any other VP. Let’s say you decide to use Z-150 (CSDVRS) as your default provider, you can add other VRS providers to the address book of Z-150.
Keep in mind that if you give the LN from default provider to businesses, relatives, hearing or deaf/hoh friends, any incoming calls will come through the default provider.
Be aware that if you make an emergency call, use your default VRS provider to call for emergency assistance. Why? Because the system is set up where default provider will be able to get your info immediately and share with emergency dispatcher. If you call for emergency assistance to a non-default VRS provider, video interpreter will have to ask you lot of questions to find out where and who you are. Takes longer.
Tip: One way to get around to this problem is to get LN from ALL of VRS providers that distributes video phones; that way, all of them will have access to your important data immediately. See my previous email on "multiple default LN and VRS Providers".
eyes open & thumbs up,
Ed B
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A quickie one – if you’ll pardon the pun ;-]
This is where bad people use IP relay to foster fraud schemes. Interesting story there.
Swat Responds to Emergency Fraud
With the new required LN, this should reduce the fraudulent calls considerably as IP Relay providers will need to ask for name, address, etc. IP Providers are required to do a verification procedure to ensure the person is who he or she is and to ensure where they live actually live at the provided addresses.
eyes open & thumbs up,
Ed
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Based on numerous emails and video calls I’ve received, it is glaringly obvious that many deaf/hoh persons still do not understand how LN (Local Number) Procedure works out with VRS.
I will try to do series of vlogs to clarify a few of the LN issues by focusing on one or two items of particular issue.
Here is the first one:
MULTIPLE DEFAULT LOCAL NUMBERS PERMITTED:
I am sure many of you are puzzled that you get emails, and video calls from VRS providers that you must get LN because the FCC required that and I know many of you hear from VRS Installers who tell you that you MUST choose one "default VRS Provider" to obtain ONE LN as to make the emergency procedure efficient.
As consequence, many thought it means only you have to choose one VRS provider to obtain one LN and that you are limited to ONE VRS PROVIDER and ONE LN.
Well, the way the regulations are written now, deaf/hoh CAN get LN for EACH video phones. For example, if you have OJO, Z-150, VP-200, VPAD and MVP – you can get LN from each of these VPs. In other words, you can have FIVE (5) default local numbers and FIVE (5) default VRS providers. The FCC regulation does NOT forbid that. You can have more than one default VRS providers and more than one default Local Numbers; however, keep in mind that this permission may change in the future.
Quick comment on this: my personal opinion is that in the future, I think we should be limited to ONE default LN, ONE default VRS Provider, but be able to access to all other VRS providers; however, much needs to be done on relay rules by the FCC FIRST before adopting that, though.
eyes open & thumbs up,
Ed B
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