Wireless RERC: Effects of Age on Use of Various Media to Receive and Share Public Alert Information by People with Disabilities

This WirelessRERC Emergency Communications Survey research report sheds light on patterns of technology use by people with disabilities during public disasters and emergencies across age cohorts | May 2013

Citizens with disabilities are at once the most vulnerable during an emergency, and the most likely to have greater access challenges to communications media than the rest of the population. Consequently, finding technological solutions that ensure access is critical to an effective emergency communications and emergency management plan.