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I implore you Web Developers and Designers to simply have a checkbox: Don’t ring me, I’m deaf.

Alternatively, "Don't ring me, I greatly dislike speaking on the phone when e-mail will suffice."

I was under the impression that most deaf people had phones - they're multi-purpose devices, now, and the phone functionality is a tiny part of what I use mine for.

If I were deaf, I'd probably ask someone to record a voicemail explaining that I'm deaf and that calling me will do no good, and offer alternatives, and then enter that phone number into web forms.

Often these sign-up processes will call the number you give and an automated voice will verbally tell you a PIN type code (numbers or letters) which you have to type into the sign-up screen to continue the process. The voicemail would never be heard by a human.
The automatic voices I imagine will be more easily transcripted by software.
Hey, you just found a niche!

I wonder if this is something Google Voice/Twilio could be scripted to handle.

If it hasn't been done already I'd be thoroughly disappointed. =| All the phone software needs to do when receiving a call is 1. Try to transcript the incoming audio and email it to the user. 2. Broadcast the voice message saying the receiver is physically unable to take phone calls.
Not only that, but think of those WHO DON'T HAVE PHONES.

I now have a cell phone that I use around 10 min per month. I could easily do without it... but everywhere they expect you to have one. I could understand an email address, but a phone number? Why?

I'd imagine the overlap between people who are using web applications and don't have cellphones is extremely small.