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Access to Emergency Alerts for People with Disabilities
Access Alerts Working Group and National Consumer Advisory Board

NCAM's Access to Emergency Alerts project collaborates with an Accessibility Working Group within the public warning community to conduct resource assessments of emergency system protocols, technologies and services for wired, wireless and DTV-based delivery of information. The public warning community consists of local and national government agencies, Web-based weather and traffic services, local television and radio stations and cable TV services.

A second group, the Access Alerts National Consumer Advisory Board is comprised of representatives from organizations serving deaf, hard of hearing, blind and visually impaired communities. Through ongoing, informal communication with NCAM staff, and an annual meeting to share updates on alerting technologies and barriers, this board ensures that consumers are active participants in defining the need and determining how solutions are evaluated.

Accessibility Working Group

Kenneth B. Allen
American Council for Technology and the Industry Advisory Committee

Claudia Bitner
Mystateusa.com

Art Botterell
Incident.com

Ray Chadwick
R.F. Chadwick & Associates

Ed Czarnecki
SpectraRep

Elizabeth A. Davis
EAD & Associates, LLC

Tom Ditt
North Carolina Division of Services for Deaf & Hard of Hearing

Ida B. Esh't
Arkansas Governor's Commission on People with Disabilities

Nikki Falk
St. Clair County Office of Emergency Management in Michigan

Matt Farlow
Mystateusa.com (formerly Louisiana Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness)

Jeff Friedland
St. Clair County Office of Emergency Management in Michigan

Ben Green
California Governor's Office of Emergency Services

David Glazebrook
Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency

Sudhir Gupta
XOP Networks

George Heake
Temple University

Jim House
Community Emergency Preparedness Information Network

Bob Hynes
Arlington Virginia Disability Commission

Bill Josko
Roam Secure

Frank Lucia, Consultant

Scott Marotte
California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services

Dave MacCarn
WGBH Educational Foundation

Scott McCormick
CARD (Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters)

John Merrell
Prima Technology

Vicki Miller
Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security

Carolyn Moussa
California Governor's Office of Emergency Services

Ward Noland
Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security

Donna Platt
Washington State 9-1-1/TTY Education Program
Hearing, Speech & Deafness Center (HSDC)

Vishy Poosala
Alert Earth!

Ken Putkovich
Consultant (formerly NOAA/National Weather Service)

Richard Ray
Department on Disability
City of Los Angeles (California)

Bruce Robertson
Digital Alert Systems

Susan Roseberry
Contra Costa County, California

Chris Springer
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Elaine Sudanowicz
Mayor’s Office of Emergency Preparedness, Boston (Massachusetts)

Skip Tamargo
Emergency E-Mail Notification

Jeff Timperi
Massachusetts Department of Public Health

John Tommaney
Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency

Anna Torsney-Weir
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)

Gail Toti
Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Marty Vodovoz
KLVX, Las Vegas

William Waugh
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Georgia State University



Access Alerts National Consumer Advisory Board

Kenneth B. Allen
American Council for Technology and the Industry Advisory Committee

Brenda Battat
Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA)

Nancy Bloch
National Association of the Deaf (NAD)

Melanie Brunson
American Council of the Blind (ACB)

Elizabeth A. Davis
EAD & Associates, LLC

Betty Dodds
Consultant (formerly NOAA/National Weather Service)

David Glazebrook
Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA)

Judith Harkins
Gallaudet University Department of Communication Studies

Cheryl Heppner
Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons (NVRC) and the Consumer Action Network (CAN)

Janet LaBreck
Massachusetts Commission for the Blind

Helena Mitchell
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Mobile Wireless Technologies for Persons with Disabilities
Georgia Institute of Technology

Heidi Larson Reed
Massachusetts Commission of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Paul Schroeder
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Claude Stout
Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc.

Hilary Styron
Emergency Preparedness Initiative
National Organization on Disability (NOD)

Vincent (Bim) Tunstall Wood
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Severe Storms Laboratory