Wireless Emergency Alert Templates: American Sign Language (ASL)

The Federal Communications Commission requires wireless providers participating in Wireless Emergency Alerts to support the below video alert message templates for American Sign Language. These templates may be pre-installed on WEA-capable mobile devices or downloaded to the device when triggered by the user’s selection of the option to receive WEAs in ASL. Where an alerting authority chooses to send a multilingual Alert Message, the WEA-capable mobile device must be able to extract and display the video template if the subscriber has opted into receiving ASL alerts. When a multilingual alert is sent and the subscriber has opted into receiving ASL alerts, the ASL video template is required to appear first and must be followed by the fillable English version of the alert.

This page previously provided demo ASL templates on which the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau sought comment. Those demos are now available at www.fcc.gov/wireless-emergency-alert-templates-american-sign-language-asl

More information about these requirements may be found at www.fcc.gov/multilingual-wireless-emergency-alerts.