The Wireless Emergency Alerts Video Platform: Emergency Alerts in Many Formats Allow Access for All

Date of Publication: 
2022 September

This research brief reports on developing a software app that demonstrates the technical feasibility of providing WEA messages in multiple formats, namely text-based messages, spoken messages, symbology, and ASL video with captions, to improve the accessibility of the messages for all receivers. The results of a usability study examining how people who are Deaf understand the emergency messages in multiple formats are also described. 

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