Re: [VCARDDAV] tel-type= textphone

Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> Tue, 13 April 2010 12:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] tel-type= textphone
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On 2010-04-13 07:07, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> Several colleagues have commented that it would be useful to have a "tel"
> type of "textphone" for numbers like 0121 303 1119 on
> http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/contact - it's important for textphone users
> (usually people who are deaf or who cannot speak, or those communicating
> with them) to be able to differentiate such numbers form regular telephone
> numbers.

Since we already have "fax" which plays an analogous role, and this is 
very non-intrusive, I would tend to say "sure, why not". So unless 
somebody opposes, this will be in the next version.

> This is different to the type of "text", which is, I believe meant for SMS
> text messages (and thus should perhaps be renamed, or at least explained
> less ambiguously in the spec).

Sure thing.

Simon
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