Take the TDI & NAD Survey About Your VRS & Advanced Communication Needs

The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and TDI (Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc.) need you to take a survey about your Video Relay Service and "advanced communications and equipment" experiences to help our organizations and partners best advocate on behalf of best deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind community members in our comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) notice for proposed rulemaking (NPRM) [2] that seeks to understand the way in which they should implement the requirements of Sections 716 and 717, which were added by Section 104 of Title I of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA). In the NPRM, the FCC asks many questions about how deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind people use Video Relay Services and other types of advanced communication services.

 Some of the questions in the TDI & NAD survey include:

• How many different videophone numbers do you have?
• What other types of electronic communication systems do you use? (Instant messaging, e-mail, voice chats, etc.) *
• If applicable, how do you connect your hearing aid or cochlear implant with your mobile phone? 
• At work, are you easily able to access relay services such as Captioned Telephone, Video Relay Service and/or IP Relay?
• In an emergency situation, which methods would you prefer to use to call 9-1-1? 

Please take 5-10 minutes to answer all the questions at: http://goo.gl/qoFga [3]. Survey deadline: April 1, 2011.