[VCARDDAV] tel-type= textphone

"Andy Mabbett" <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> Tue, 13 April 2010 11:07 UTC

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Forgive me if this has already been discussed; I'm mobile, so don't have
chance to check the archives as thoroughly as I'd normally do.

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.

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).

More on textphones at:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_device_for_the_deaf

Regards,

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Andy Mabbett
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