[sbe-eas] Improving Accessibility and Clarity in EAS Messages NPRM

[Sean Donelan]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Ken Evans wrote:
> I did not see this one in the FCC Daily Digest.  But I think it should
> improve accessibility in EAS.  IPAWS CAP messages do a good job of adding
> the the vocal text information to the TV station crawl.   

It was hiding in the announcement for next month's agenda for the 
Commissioners' meeting.

Hardcoding things in standards (regulations) is almost always a bad idea.

It suffers from tunnel vison of looking at one problem in isolation. 
Accessibility is important. So is multilingual message support, Spanish, 
Chinese, French creole, etc. Social science research about emergency 
messaging has improved, and some of the old assumptions no longer apply.

FCC, FEMA, NWS should really convene some sort of working group with other 
agencies with experience doing things like this, such as NIST.