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Christina Touzet traveled to New Orleans, LA to present a poster, EAS & WEA: Does the new alerting technology improve accessibility? at RES/CON 2016 (formerly the International Disaster Conference and Expo (IDCE) March 1-3, 2016. Christina presented the results of research activities which were conducted to examine the effectiveness of EAS and WEA to provide alerts to people with disabilities. Specifically, the Wireless RERC conducted comparative analyses of the awareness of EAS and WEA messages, the accessibility of the two systems, as well as the types of protective actions taken as a result of the emergency messages.
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