Deaf Chat: Best Video Calling App For Deaf

Deaf Chat App - Privacy is possible. Deaf Chat makes it easy.

Using Deaf Chat, you can communicate instantly while avoiding SMS fees, create groups so that you can chat in real time with all your friends at once, and share media or other files all with complete privacy. Deaf Chat's servers never have access to any of your communication and never store any of your data.

- Say Anything. Deaf chat uses an advanced end-to-end encryption protocol to keep your conversations private. Every message, every call, every time.

- Open Source. Deaf Chat is Free and Open Source, enabling anyone to verify its security by auditing the code. Deaf Chat is the only private messenger that uses open source peer-reviewed cryptographic protocols to keep your messages and calls safe.

- Be Yourself - Deaf Chat uses your existing phone number and address book. There are no separate logins, usernames, passwords, or PINs to manage or lose.

- Group Chat. Deaf Chat allows you to create encrypted groups so you can have private conversations with all your friends at once. Not only are the messages encrypted, but the Deaf Chat server never has access to any group metadata such as the membership list, group title, or group icon.

- Fast. The Deaf Chat protocol is designed to operate in the most constrained environment possible. Using Deaf Chat, messages are instantly delivered to friends.

- Speak Freely - Make crystal-clear phone calls to people who live across town, or across the ocean, with no long-distance charges. Deaf Chat is not currently compatible with tablets, but support for larger screens is on our roadmap and will be included in a future release.

Download App Now:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wDeafChat_8743374

For support, questions, or more information, please visit: Deaf Chat App.

Follow @DeafChat: https://youtube.com/channel/deafchat

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Comcast Data Caps Make Life For Deaf Difficult

Deaf News: Comcast's data usage caps may be a hindrance to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community.

PHILADELPHIA -- It’s hard to find a Comcast Internet customer who doesn’t loathe the idea of the company’s forthcoming data usage limits, but usage caps may prove particularly painful to one group: the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

Comcast’s data usage caps for its Internet customers will expand to eight more cities Tuesday. The caps limit users to 300GB of data monthly, with the alternative of facing fines or paying a steeper rate to get unlimited access.

And unlimited access is especially crucial for many in the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community who use Video Relay Service, or VRS, to conduct phone calls. The calls are facilitated using a sign language interpreter on the other end - and that requires an Internet video feed.

“It’s really important to the Deaf community because it provides visual communication,” said Dan Hoffman, the American Sign Language and Deaf Studies program coordinator for Utah Valley University.

VRS does not use that much data - 5-10 megabits per second, according to Sorenson VRS, one of the leading VRS companies - but that adds up when you're also using your connection for normal browsing.

“Hearing people can call using their phones any time they want to…they don’t have any cap like that,” said Hoffman, who is Deaf and also a Comcast customer.

For Hoffman and others in the Deaf community, equal access means that if hearing people can communicate without time limits using telephones, that the Deaf community ought to be able to also. He said rather than pay Comcast's steeper rates for unlimited use, many Deaf people would simply transfer services if a cap were in place.

The Federal Communications Commission does have protections in place to ensure the adequate provision of telecommunications services to the Deaf community, but from a cursory read, it is unclear if capping VRS use is an Americans with Disabilities Act violation. The communications agency was not able to comment on the story.

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Glide - Video Messaging In The Deaf Community

Next Generation Video Messaging in the Deaf Community.

#YourGlideStory - Over the past few months, you've let us know that Glide is the best way to communicate visually, and we're extremely grateful to all of our users in the Deaf/HoH community for their continued support.

Glide is a video messenger that allows you to send and receive video messages that can be seen live (as you're recording) or later (like a text message).

There are already loads of great video chat apps out there. We're not trying to replace them, we are giving people a more convenient way to keep in touch through video that doesn't need scheduling. Traditional video chat requires you and your friends to be online at the same time, which isn't always possible. The great thing about Glide is that you can send or watch a message whenever you want, regardless of whether your friends are online.

RELATED - Deaf Community Discover The App 'Glide'

Glide is a private messaging service. Only friends in the chat you send a message to will see it. You and your friends can also share messages from Glide to social networks and friends outside the app. Sending messages to Glide users anywhere in the world is 100% free.

Keep up with Glide:
Download Glide - https://goo.gl/niox9g
Facebook - https://facebook.com/glideme
TwitterApp - https://twitter.com/glideapp
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sarahglide
Instagram - https://instagram.com/sarahglide
Official site - http://glide.me/

Big thanks to all of the #DeafTalent!

Credits:
Producer & Director
Jules Dameron (Deaf)

Interviewees: (all Deaf)

Gabriel Silva
Jules Dameron
Dickie Hearts
Rosa Lee Timm
Odunayo Akintomide

Director of Photography
Jules Dameron (Deaf)

Head of Communications & Interpreter Coordinator
Martha Villar

Interviewer
Kailyn Aaron-Lozano (Deaf)

Sound Recorder & Mixer
Leonardo Nasca

Makeup Artist
Kaila Borne

Anthony King
First Assistant Camera

Key Grips
Arleta Meeker (Deaf)
Quinn Cooke (Deaf)

Editor
Sarah Snow
Jules Dameron

Craft & Catering Services
Matt Reinig (Deaf)

Thanks to CSUN Volunteer Interpreting Services.

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