Government to Citizen

  • Add dissemination channels used by people with disabilities

    • E.g., mobile text, e-mail

  • Address accessibility of televised EAS, radio emergency alerts

  • Local emergency information must be provided – in full – visually and visual information in spoken form

  • NOAA Weather Radio All Hazard Alerts – Text and voice must be equivalent (text servers needed)

  • Make use of Radio Band Data and location based services

  • Note: New project on emergency alerting funded by NTIA at WGBH in Boston

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