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A new civil right : telecommunications equality for deaf and hard of hearing Americans /

"More than 300 years ago a physicist, Guillaume Amontons, stood on a hillside in Meudon, France, and, using a series of windmills, sent a message to Belleville and then to Paris. He received a response by similar signals, letters of the alphabet attached to the windmill vanes, which were read w...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strauss, Karen Peltz (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a A Movement is born -- The Focus shifts -- Entering the mainstream of telephone communications -- A Federal relay interlude -- Relay goes nation -- Relay reality -- David versus Goliath -- In case of an emergency -- Captioning is launched -- The stage is set -- Full and equal television access -- A Compatible world becomes undone -- The Restoration of hearing aid compatible telephones -- A Wireless world -- A Federal law for universal design -- The Access law takes on meaing -- TTYs and wireless retrofittiing -- Postscript: A Light at the end of the tunnel. 
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