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Deaflare
See it. Feel it. Hear it. One shared rhythm for all.
A warning works only when it reaches the person. Deaflare is a Deaf-first emergency app: every alert arrives through sight, touch, and sound — any one alone tells you danger is here and how serious. The action arrives in words and sign.
One warning. Two very different experiences.
Hearing people
A siren says: DANGER. One sound, one meaning, learned once.
Deaf people
A text message that feels like any other message. It can sit in a list. It can be seen too late. In an emergency, later can be too late.
Deaflare gives Deaf people what the siren gives everyone else: a warning language of its own.
One warning. Three ways to understand it.
See it
The screen becomes a beacon.
A full-screen color wash, a large picture of the danger, and a white torch frame at the screen’s edges — readable from across a room, at full brightness even if your screen was dim.
Feel it
Each danger has its own vibration.
Water rolls. Storm knocks. Ground holds. Fire races. Face down in a pillow at 3 a.m., the pattern alone wakes you and tells you what is coming. For DeafBlind people, this is how the alert arrives — the full message follows in accessible text.
Hear it
A siren tone for the people around you.
The same rhythm as the vibration, played at full volume even if the phone was turned down — so a hearing partner in the next room hears what you feel.
Every alert is sent on all three senses, and the hazard rhythm reads the same on any ONE of them: the rhythm names the danger family, and the exact event and action always follow in accessible language. No essential part of a warning depends on any single sensory feature. It also helps everyone else: asleep, headphones on, in a loud factory — everyone is situationally deaf for hours every day.
Built on open rules.
Deaflare is the reference implementation of the Three Senses Alerting Standard: the Five Alert Questions, a mimetic rhythm per hazard family, severity as intensity, and photosensitivity-safe light. The rules are free for anyone to copy.
The app is the laboratory. The rules are the goal.
While building Deaflare we searched for the rules an accessible alert must follow — and found none. So we wrote a draft: the Three Senses Alerting Standard, running in the app today as a reference implementation, free to copy. Inside the app, a Test & Learn tab lets you feel every pattern, practice every severity level, and try realistic drill alerts — safely marked TEST ONLY, never mistakable for the real thing.
We presented this work at the World Federation of the Deaf 75th Anniversary Webinar on disaster risk reduction. One founder is not enough: the standard will be finished by the Deaf and DeafBlind people who test it.
Be part of the testing.
Deaflare is in testing with Deaf and DeafBlind users now. Leave your email and we will contact you when a testing spot or the public release is ready.
Or try the web demo right now — no install needed.