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The Three Senses Alerting Standard

alertsforall.org ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 89.0
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An open emergency-alert standard designed to make warnings detectable by sight, touch, or hearing.

Why it surfaced

The standard gives each hazard its own visual, vibration, and sound pattern, then puts the action first: “GO TO HIGH GROUND NOW.” It is unusually concrete public-interest work, backed by a working reference app, regulator-facing proposals, and an explicit focus on Deaf and DeafBlind people.

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