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August 2026
Filed formal comments with the United States FCC on alerting modernization
IDE's formal comments in the FCC's proceeding on modernizing the nation's alerting systems, PS Docket Nos. 15-91, 15-94 and 25-224.
A twenty-one page comment in the Commission's proceeding on modernizing the nation's alerting systems, PS Docket Nos. 15-91, 15-94 and 25-224. It argues that accessibility obligations attach to the attention layer of a public warning and to the signal that an emergency has ended, not only to the words of the alert, and that DeafBlind people must be named expressly in alerting rules because a system designed for visual or audio access excludes them by construction. The document is tagged for screen readers.