This is an interesting court case about three Arizona residents, who are deaf, as well as the National Association for the Deaf (NAD) won an early victory in their case against state and local governments in which they seek implementation of text to 911 capabilities. In February, just over a year after the suit was filed, a judge in the Arizona District Court denied the defendants' motion to dismiss the case.

The suit alleges that the existing 911 services available to deaf individuals are inadequate. The options are to use either obsolete "text-telephone" devices (TTY devices), which most people who are deaf do not have, or use telecommunications relay services (TRS), which requires high-speed internet connections. This decision allows the plaintiffs to proceed in their attempt to establish that the law requires accessibility to 911 services -- through text to 911.

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