Emergency Communications Accessibility

• 911 Text Access. Materials on possible short-term solutions for providing wireless text access to emergency services. [Added August 15, 2011]
  
• Materials from the Accessible Emergency Notification and Communication:  State of the Science Conference
• Print Archive:  Accessible versions of PowerPoint presentations, papers, and edited transcripts of speaker remarks.
• Video Archive:  Captioned video of presentations thanks to sponsorship of the web archive by the National Organization on Disability's Emergency Preparedness Initiative, the cooperation of TVWorldwide.com, and support for captioning from Gallaudet University.
• Resources on Accessible Emergency Notification, Communication, and Preparedness.  Reports from other organizations and links to sites focusing on emergency communications.
• E-911Stakeholder Council. Documents from meetings of the E9-1-1 Accessibility Stakeholder Council.  The Technology Access Program is a member of the Council. For more information, contact the Council Chair, Sheri Farinha Mutti.
• TDI White Paper: Expectations of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Communities for Comprehensive Federal Action to Accelerate Emergency 9-1-1 Access
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• Location-based Emergency Alerting to Mobile Devices:  Progress in 2007
  

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