Access to Emergency Alerts - Glossary of Acronyms

This page archives past NCAM projects. While the information remains relevant, some resources referenced are no longer available, so links to them have been removed.

Glossary of Acronyms

Project staff has taken care to spell out the formal names of organizations, services and other acronym-laden text throughout the Project’s web site. The list below represents our effort to gather these terms in one place for easy reference.

AADB - American Association of the Deaf-Blind

AARP - American Association of Retired People

ACB - American Council of the Blind

AFB - American Foundation for the Blind

AG Bell - Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

ALDA - Association of Late-Deafened Adults Inc.

ASDC - American Society for Deaf Children

CAP - Common Alerting Protocol

CDC - Centers for Disease Control

CEPIN - Community Emergency Preparedness Information Network

CMSAAC - Federal Communication Commissions’ Commercial Mobile Service Alert Advisory Committee

COAT - Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology

DHS - U.S. Department of Homeland Security

DHHCAN - Deaf and Hard of Hearing Consumer Action Network

DHHS - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

DOE - U.S. Department of Education

DTV - Digital Television

EAS - Emergency Alert System

FCC - Federal Communications Commission

FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Administration

FFB - Foundation Fighting Blindness

GPS - Global Positioning Satellite

HKNC - Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults

ISCRAM - International Community on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

MEMA - Massachusetts Emergency Management Administration

NAD - National Association of the Deaf

NAPVI - National Association of Parents of Children with Visual Impairments

NCD - National Council on Disability

NFB - National Federation of the Blind

NOD - National Organization on Disability

NOPBC - National Organizations of Parents of Blind Children

HLAA - Hearing Loss Association of American

NENA - National Emergency Number Association

NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NVRC - Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons

NWS - National Weather Service

OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

PA - Public Address System

PSIP - Program and System Information Protocol

TDI - Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc.

VOIP - Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol