European Emergency Number 112

The European Emergency Number 112 is used to contact emergency services free of charge all over the EU. However it is not currently accessible to the majority of disabled people.

Now this is set to change with the start of REACH112, a European wide initiative involving France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and the UK. The project will introduce improved communication solutions for disabled people, allowing them direct access to emergency services. Users will also be able to call each other in video, voice and text via the Internet and across national boundaries. It will also allow sign language users to communicate through remote interpreting services, and via other relay services, using text to talk to voice users. Visit the website
http://www.reach112.eu/view/en/index.html

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