BALTIMORE (AP) — Verizon Communications is ending its voice-dialing service, a system relied upon by people with blindness or paralysis.
About 60,000 customers from West Virginia to Maine use the service.

"That's something that helped me be relatively self-reliant," said Steve Topchik, a vision-impaired Baltimore man.

As an alternative, Verizon is offering users a voice-activated dialing terminal that attaches to their phones at what it says is a deeply discounted price of about $200, including taxes and shipping. Story Continues @ usatoday.com