Email and accessibility issues for Persons with disabilities

Question

I have a brain injury which I acquired in a mva 11 years ago. I have great difficulty with the ever advancing technology and my primary method of communication is phone call or sms msgs. I don't communicate by email, yet I am constantly forced to provide an email address to sign up or register or participate in anything with no "preferred method of communication" option offered, (eg: to have information sent via SMS.) This is discriminatory in my view and a human Rights violation. So I reach out to ask you: Are there any services/ apps that can translate, transform or transfer an email into a text message?

Answer 1

Some mobile carriers let you receive emails as text messages using an email-to-SMS address (for example: yourphonenumber@carriername). You could use that address when signing up, and the messages will come to you as SMS instead of regular email.

There are also services like IFTTT or similar apps that can automatically forward emails to your phone as text messages.

If you share your country/carrier, someone can point you to the exact format to use.