| Assisting people with disabbilities during COVID-19 and beyond - 04/05/2020 |
| Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) |
| International and Regional Organizations | International |
| The Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU), in collaboration with the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT), Digicel and the Trinidad and Tobago Association for the Hearing Impaired (TTAHI), is working with a global organisation, VTCSecure, to introduce the Caribbean Video Assistance Service (CVAS) for the Deaf and Blind, firstly to Trinidad and Tobago and then to other Caribbean countries. A CVAS pilot, a first for this type of service in the Caribbean, will be launched on Monday 4th May 2020. CVAS will enable those who are deaf or hard of hearing, who use sign language, to communicate with hearing persons via a sign language interpreter (Agent) or those who are blind to receive assistance from those same agents when they need the help of someone who can see. |
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