Lucent Technologies Definity Audix System Feature Descriptions Manual

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DescriptionPoints to Remember
Administration Screens
The Americ ans With Disab ilities Ac t (ADA) enc ourag es 
emp loyers to make reasonab le ac c ommod ations for emp loy-
ees with d isab ilities, inc lud ing  emp loyees who are hear-
ing -impaired . Hearing -imp aired  p eople who are unab le to 
c ommunic ate b y voic e over a telep hone typ ic ally use a tele-
typ ewriter.
The DEFINITY AUDIX system offers...

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Applications
Use of the TDD announc ement set enab les emp loyers to c omp ly with the 
Americ ans With Disab ilities Ac t (ADA) b y making  reasonab le ac c ommod ations 
for hearing-imp aired  emp loyees. (Cost-c onsc ious emp loyers should  note that a 
sing le Multiling ual DEFINITY AUDIX system is able to ac c ommodate the need s of 
voic e-mail users who req uire a sp oken announc ement set...

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and  fig ures. This is imp ortant: when a TTY is not in the same mod e as the 
d evic e that is transmitting  to it, the c harac ters that d isp lay on the rec eiving  
TTY will make no sense to the user. 
All DEFINITY AUDIX TDD announc ements c ontain the ap p rop riate mod e 
reset c od es to ensure that the rec eiving  TTY stays mod e-sync hronized  
with the DEFINITY AUDIX system d uring...

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If the DEFINITY AUDIX system d oes not pic k up  the touc h-tone key 
p resses, transmission with the DEFINITY AUDIX system may b e too loud. 
Dial   to make the transmission softer. 
nHandset Ad ap tor: Certain telep hone hand sets, suc h as the R-typ e 
hand set used  on many Luc ent Tec hnolog ies b usiness telep hones, will not 
work reliably with TTY ac oustic  c oup lers that were intend...

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nLog in Announc ement: A hearing-imp aired  user who uses only TTY for 
c ommunic ations with the DEFINITY AUDIX system will not see anything  on 
the TTY for a voic ed  log in announc ement. If there are TTY users on the 
DEFINITY AUDIX system, it may b e a g ood  id ea not to use the Log in 
Announc ement feature. If a log in announc ement is going to b e used , the 
system ad ministrator may...

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Login
The DEFINITY AUDIX system hunt g roup  extension answers in the system 
announc ement set, not the TDD announc ement set. There are three methods TTY 
users c an use for log g ing  in to the DEFINITY AUDIX system: 
nWait b efore entering  log in seq uenc e. 
1. Dial the DEFINITY AUDIX hunt g roup  extension numb er. 
2. Wait ab out five sec ond s (long  enoug h for the DEFINITY AUDIX...

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Multilingual Feature
There are several c onsid erations when dec id ing  how to ad minister the 
Multiling ual feature and c all c overag e for the hearing -imp aired  TTY user. For 
examp le: 
nDo you exp ec t the hearing -imp aired  p erson to rec eive voic e c alls? 
nDoes the p erson have suffic ient hearing  ab ility to listen to voic e 
messag es? 
nIs your c omp any able to p rovide c...

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very short so that it d oes not c ause a long  d elay in the TDD g reeting  seen b y the 
TTY c aller. The TDD p art immediately follows the voic e p art.) 
The ab ove examp le illustrates one p ossib le sc enario for ad ministering  the TTY 
user. The system ad ministrator should  c onsid er the TTY user’s need s, the 
req uirements of his or her job , and  c all c overag e c...

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DEFINITY AUDIX system, it may b e a g ood  id ea not to use the Log in 
Announc ement feature. If a log in announc ement is going to b e used , the 
system ad ministrator may want to send  a TDD messag e to TTY users 
informing  them of the following : 
— They will rec eive a voic ed log in announc ement when they log  in 
and  they will have to wait the leng th of the announc...

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