Yes, I believe that's all there is to it. But the speed is, of course, a key component. Years ago I had a Krown TDD modem on my desk. It was one of my favorite demos of how technology could mediate communications for persons with disabilities. I would address this modem at 300 bps in ASCII. It, in its firmware, converted to BAUD OT and allowed me to place a TDD call. The demo was a blind person chatting directly with a deaf person, mediated only by technology. Of course, we do that on line all the time, with the exception that many deaf persons consider English to be a second language. But then it's also a second language for many of the blind people on this list. T. Joseph CARTER writes: > Is it just BAUDOT then? That makes it easier by far. Getting a modem to > run that slowly is nontrivial though. > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:28:55AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > > Probably not minicom without some software work. BAUD OT needs 45 or 50 > > bps, depending on the country. Also, it's a different char set from > > ASCII. > > -- > "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, > but a habit." > -- Aristotle > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list