One warning, three ways to understand it.
See it
The screen becomes a beacon.
A full-screen color wash, a large picture of the danger, the action in big plain words, and a white frame flashing the hazard’s rhythm at the edges of the screen, at full brightness even if your screen was dim.
Feel it
Each danger has its own vibration.
Water rolls. Storm knocks. Ground holds. Fire races. The pattern alone wakes you and tells you what is coming. For DeafBlind people, this is the alert.
Hear it
A siren tone for the people around you.
The same rhythm as the vibration, played at full volume even if the phone was turned down, so a hearing person in the next room hears what you feel.
Every alert is sent on all three senses and each one alone is enough to act on. It also helps everyone else: asleep, wearing headphones, or in a loud place, everyone is situationally deaf for hours every day.
Rhythms you recognize, not codes you memorize.
Each rhythm is the hazard’s own movement, and it converges with how sign languages depict these dangers. Fire is many fast pulses, like the fingers of the sign for fire flickering upward.
WATER rolls
Two long waves, like the water itself.
STORM knocks
Three sharp knocks, like gusts striking the house.
GROUND holds
One long unbroken shake. Nothing else is unbroken.
FIRE flickers
Many fast pulses. Nothing else is this fast.
Severity never changes a rhythm, only its strength. The all-clear is silence: a quiet phone means you are safe. The patterns on this page are drawn still, never flashing, so this website is safe for photosensitive visitors, exactly like the app.
What Deaflare answers, in one look.
1. Is this an emergency?
A full-screen takeover nothing ordinary can imitate, repeating until you press I UNDERSTAND.
2. How serious is it?
Color, a count of marks, and vibration strength, all saying the same level. Color never works alone.
3. What danger is it?
A picture and the hazard’s own rhythm, readable by touch alone.
4. What should I do now?
The action first, in easy words. GO UP NOW. GET OUT NOW. STAY INSIDE.
And a fifth answer, more information in your language, opens one tap away. Deaflare also includes a Test and Learn area where you can feel every pattern, practice every level, and run realistic drills that can never be mistaken for a real alert.