A communications system allows individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing
or speech disabled to use computers and other web devices to connect to
an Internet Portal in order to place a call. The system relays
communications between a first device and a second device utilizing a
third device as an intermediary where the second device is a telephone on
a plain old telephone system network and the communications between the
first device and third device involves the Internet. The system includes
a first input and output communication device coupled to a network and is
configured to send and receive communication messages, a server device
that receives a session request from the first input and output
communication device and sends a call to a call distribution device, a
second input and output communication device coupled to a plain old
telephone system, and a third input and communicating with the first
input and output communication device using a chat room interface.