We believe everyone should be able to enjoy SMARTY. For our customers with visual, hearing or dexterity impairments, we offer a range of accessibility services that are intended to make it easier for you to communicate. 📱
Find out more information on:
Our dedicated accessibility team is here for you between 9am and 5.30pm, Monday to Friday (excluding Christmas day and New Years' day). You can contact our accessibility team via email or phone as detailed below.
If your query is not related to accessibility or vulnerability, you can get full support via your online account or by visiting our help and support page at https://smarty.co.uk/contact.
Accessibility Services
We have a few options available to help you manage your account.
For example, if you want a copy of any of our terms and conditions in large print or braille, please contact us. If you’d like to have a friend or relative manage your account on your behalf, please let us know.
Just remember that any person you nominate will have access to all your account information.
Accessibility email
This email address is solely dedicated to our customers who require additional support for their disability. The accessibility team will not be able to help with any non-related accessibility or vulnerability issues.
Our accessibility email address is: smartyaccessibilityservices@smarty.co.uk
Our accessibility team will be able to respond to emails between 9am and 5.30pm, Monday to Friday (excluding Christmas day and New Years day).
Accessibility phone number
This phone number is solely dedicated to our customers who require additional support for their disability. The accessibility team will not be able to help with any non-related accessibility or vulnerability issues.
Call our accessibility team on 0333 338 1047 between 9am and 5:30pm Monday to Friday (excluding Christmas day and New Years day).
Textphone
Our number is 0800 033 8011 and we're here between 9am and 5.30pm, Monday to Friday (excluding Christmas day and New Years day).
Emergency SMS service
This service allows deaf, hard of hearing and speech-impaired people in the UK to contact the emergency services by sending a text message to 999. The content of the SMS is translated and the request is passed on to the appropriate emergency service.
To register your phone for this service:
Text the word ‘register' to 999
You’ll get an SMS message about the service
Reply “Yes”
You’ll then receive a reply telling you that your mobile is now registered (or if there’s been a problem with your registration).
This is something that can potentially save lives, but it’s important to remember that in exceptional circumstances, this service might not be available.
If you send an SMS to 999, you should still try to contact the emergency services in other ways until you receive a reply.
You could also try:
Dialling 18000 on a textphone.
Using the Relay UK App.
Asking a neighbour, friend or passer-by to dial 999.
Note that the Emergency SMS Service is only available when you're in the UK. For more information, please go to:
999 BSL Emergency Video Relay Service
999 BSL is a free emergency service for British Sign Language users who need help urgently. You can be connected to a British Sign Language interpreter in seconds, who will then call 999 on your behalf.
This service is available if you need Police, Ambulance, Fire or Coastguard. You no longer have to send a text and can now get the help you need by starting a video call using their website or app.
For more information, visit www.999bsl.co.uk
You can download their app here: Download : 999 BSL
Their app is zero-rated, so you can get connected, even if you've run out of data.
Relay UK (previously Next Generation Text Service)
If you can’t speak or hear on the phone, Relay UK lets you have conversations by using the internet or a textphone. For more information on Relay UK, please go to:
www.relayuk.bt.com
You can also download the Relay UK app onto your smartphone or tablet to use it on the go. Information on how to do this is shown here:
https://www.relayuk.bt.com/how-to-use-relay-uk/download-app.html
The Relay UK smartphone app automatically dials the prefix 18001 for deaf users making outgoing calls. For incoming calls, deaf users are able to get an overlay TextNumber (fixed or mobile) from BT which brings in the relay service automatically, meaning that the hearing person doesn’t need to dial 18002 to call a deaf relay user (or even to know that the person they are calling is deaf).
Also, if you wish to use the Relay UK service to listen to voicemail, simply dial 18001 07782333123 (if you dial 18001 123 this will not connect to your voicemail).
The options available are:
Type and Read (for those who can’t hear and don’t use their voice).
Speak and Read (for those who can’t hear but can use their voice).
Type and Hear (for those who can hear but don’t use their voice).
Speak and Hear (for those who have some hearing and do use their voice).
There are many different ways to use Relay UK service. You can use a landline or mobile phone for the voice part of the conversation and a PC, laptop, smartphone or tablet to see the text if you choose to.
If you have a smartphone which lets you use the internet at the same time as using the phone, you can hear, read and speak using the smartphone. These are just two ways you can use the service.
Relay assistants only speak English, so won’t be able to translate in calls between different languages.
For more details and for more information on the service and how it works, please visit https://www.relayuk.bt.com/
Standard UK calls through Relay UK are free.
Calling the Emergency Services using Relay UK
To use the Relay UK service to contact Emergency Services, simply dial 18000 using a textphone or click on the 999 button in the Relay UK app, and then connect.
Note that this service is not designed for use outside of the UK as it only connects you to the UK Emergency Services.
Directory enquiries
We offer a free directory enquiries phone service to our disabled customers on 195. Before you can use it, you’ll need to register for the 195 directory enquiries service by contacting us.
You won't be charged for calling 195 and you can ask for multiple searches for UK residential and business listings.
However, if you ask the operator to connect you, once you're connected, your call may incur a charge if out-of-plan so you might need an out of plan add-on for any connecting calls.
InterpretersLive! - the video relay service.
You can use InterpretersLive! to contact us through a sign language interpreter.
When accessing the service for the first time through a tablet or phone, contact InterpretersLive! for your free app invitation.
You’ll need:
A Windows, Mac, Android or iOS device
a webcam or inbuilt camera in your device
a broadband upload speed of 1MB
Adobe Flash Player.
InterpretersLive! will work on Google Chrome version 46+, Firefox version 45+ and Opera version 39+. If you’re using Safari 9 or Internet Explorer 11, download the plug-in when asked. You’ll only need to do this once, next time you’ll be taken straight to the call button.
If you want to talk to InterpretersLive! or are having problems with their service you can:
Contact them directly.
Follow their complaints guidelines.
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