EAS Workshop Aug. 27

The FCC Public Safety Bureau and Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau will host a workshop Aug. 27 on improving the use and accessibility of the emergency alert system, the FCC said in a public notice Tuesday. Attendees at the workshop will discuss methods to “empower and encourage” state and local use of EAS and Wireless Emergency Alerts for localized alerts, the PN said. The workshop will also address accessibility issues for EAS visual alerts, such as synchronicity of EAS audio with EAS visual crawls, and text-to-speech technology, the PN said. The workshop will be open to the public but will have limited seating, it said.