I was really wowed at the FCC on Friday. The Chairman and Commissioner Copps recognized several companies for their cool, innovative products and services that help make communications more accessible to people with disabilities.
Winners included CTIA for their recently launched accesswireless.org website; Apple for their iPhone 4 and 4S; and Universal Subtitles, whose product allows anyone to simply add captioning to any video they post on the Internet, to name just a few. And Verizon was recognized with an honorable mention for our Verizon Center for Customers with Disabilities, our sales and service center located in Marlboro, MA and dedicated to serving customers with disabilities. We have videophones in our service center to allow customers who use American Sign Language to communicate directly with a customer service representative, eliminating the need for a third party interpreter.
I also had the opportunity to tour the FCC’s Technology Experience Center, which has demos of the award winners’ and honorable mentions’ products and services, in addition to other cutting edge technologies that provide access to persons with disabilities. The Center will have these technologies on display through the end of November.
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