The FCC’s Emergency Access Advisory Committee is expected to release...
The FCC’s Emergency Access Advisory Committee is expected to release on June 28 a report on its online survey of emergency calling for persons with disabilities, said Cheryl King, the FCC staffer assigned to the group. King encouraged task force…
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members, who met Friday at the FCC, to pay particular attention to a section of the report on how calls will be made to 911 in the future as technology and devices evolve. The section “has been of great interest,” she said: “I think that will totally inform us in a very particular way when we sit down to the task of writing the recommendations that we are charged with writing.” The EAAC spent much of the meeting on preliminary discussion of its “blue sky” report on the future of emergency communications for the disabled. “What we need to do in our role here is more than just a survey, but also dreaming up what the future is going to be,” said Joel Ziev, representing Partners for Access on the EAAC. “The future is five, 10, 15 years from now. … What we really need to look at are ways in which to communicate with 911 in a newer, a different way that we haven’t really thought about yet.” The aging population means there will be more people in the U.S. with disabilities, he said. “Many will become deaf or hard of hearing. Many will become blind.”