Consumer

• NVRC-- Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons, empowering deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals and their familes through education, advocacy and community involvement.
• CSD (Communication Service for the Deaf), dedicated to providing broad-based services, ensuring public accessibility and increasing public awareness of issues affecting deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals.
• National Association of the Deaf
• TDI, Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc.'s Community Emergency Preparedness Information Network (CEPIN) Project
• American Council of the Blind
• American Foundation for the Blind
• National Organization on Disability, expanding the participation and contribution of America's 54 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life.

Devices

• Consumer Electronics Association: Public Alert Receivers

Emergency Management

• Disaster Can Strike Quickly and Without Warning: Make a Plan.
• International Association of Emergency Managers
• DHHCAN/NVRC Report: Emergency Preparedness and Emergency Communication Access, Lessons Learned Since 9/11 and Recommendations
• National Council on Disability Report-- Saving Lives: Including People with Disabilities in Emergency Planning, an overview of steps the federal government should take to build a solid and resilient infrastructure that will enable the government to include the diverse populations of people with disabilities in emergency preparedness, disaster relief, and homeland security programs.

Government

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Public Health Information Network (PHIN)
• DHS - Department of Homeland Security National Response Plan, a comprehensive all-hazards approach to enhance the ability of the United States to manage domestic incidents.
• DisabilityInfo.gov, an on-line connection to the federal government's disability-related information and resources.
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service, weather warnings, observations, forecasts, weather safety, education, outreach and the NOAA Information Center.
• National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education
• Federal Emergency Management Agency, responding to, planning for, recovering from and mitigating against disasters.
• FCC's Emergency Alert System, established by the FCC in November of 1994, replacing the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) as a tool the President and others may use to warn the public about emergency situations.
• National Science & Technology Council Red Book: Effective Disaster Warnings, addressing the problems of delivering warnings reliably to only those people at risk and to systems that have been preprogrammed to respond to early warnings.

Public Warning

• Partnership for Public Warning, a site for information on public emergency communications.

Services

• Mystateusa.com, networking the community to the county to the regions of a state as well as networking each state on a national basis.
• Art Botterell's incident.com
• Alert Earth, creating a grassroots alerting infrastructure using the Internet, cell phones, and volunteers, operating through a Web portal. The Web site rapidly detects disasters, alerts people, connects people to other people and aid organizations, and educates people about how to deal with disasters.

Standards

• Emergency Interoperability Consortium
• The Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP)
• OASIS Standards: Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) v1.1

Subject-Related Articles

• March 12, 2005: System Alerts Deaf Mainers to Emergencies
• May 12, 2005: No Signal-- Cellphone Hangup: When You Dial 911, Can Help Find You?
• June 2, 2005: Disability Preparedness Center Finds Individuals with Disabilities Need To Be More Involved In Preparing For Disasters in the National Capital Region
• June 13, 2005: McCain Pushes Analog Reclamation Bill
• October 4, 2005: Wireless Text is Logical Basis for an Emergency Info System
• Reinventing 911: How a Swarm of Networked Citizens is Building a Better Emergency Broadcast System.

Subject-Related Conferences

• Accessible Emergency Notification and Communication: State of the Science Conference, sponsored by Gallaudet University and the Trace Center.

Funders

Funding for the Access to Emergency Alerts Project is provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Technology Opportunities Program.