Forbes

In New Interview, ZVRS And Purple Communications Chief Exec Sherri Turpin Talks The Future Of Video Relay Services

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven covers accessibility and assistive technologies. At a high level, video relay service is effectively FaceTime for phone ...
Democrat and Chronicle

Spectrum testing virtual ASL interpreter program in Rochester stores. How does it work?

Trent Gobble stands at the front of a Spectrum store in Henrietta, opens the camera on his phone and scans a QR code on a sheet of paper stationed on a small stand facing the door. A link pops up, ...
Network World

IM video relay service for the deaf

Now this is pretty cool: A company called Hands On Video Relay Service is offering free service for the deaf that allows them to place telephone calls to hearing individuals, with an operator ...
In These Times

Wall Street Took Over a Vital Sign Language Service—And Started Union Busting

“Do no harm” is the guiding principle of American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters’ professional code of conduct. But when Joe Klug, 28, worked as a Video Relay Service (VRS) interpreter for a Twin ...
The New York Times

Stand With the Deaf Community

You can make a difference. BE AN ALLY. In an emergency, deaf and hard of hearing people cannot simply call 911. Instead they call an interpreter through a video relay service (VRS) who connects them ...