Accessibility

DMI-Services is committed to providing access to our web pages for individuals with disabilities, both members of the public and Federal employees.

To meet this commitment, we will comply with the
requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. Section 508 requires that individuals with disabilities, who are members of the public seeking information or services from us, have access to and use of information and data that is comparable to that provided to the public who are not individuals with disabilities, unless an undue burden would be imposed on us. Section 508 also requires us to ensure that Federal employees with disabilities have access to and use of information and data that is comparable to the access to and use of information and data by Federal employees who are not individuals with disabilities, unless an undue burden would be imposed on us.

If you use assistive technology (such as a Braille reader, a screen reader, TTY, etc.) and the format of any material on our web site interferes with your ability to access the information, please contact opa@fema.gov for assistance. To enable us to respond in a manner most helpful to you, please indicate the nature of your accessibility problem, the preferred format in which to receive the material, the web address of the requested material, and your contact information.

Approach:

DMI-Services employs a broad government/science/industry collaborative approach to software product development. Products are developed incrementally and iteratively; i.e., in small “bites” of capabilities that are enhanced over time.

Tool development is achieved with responder input throughout the software development process. The standards necessary to achieve information sharing via the DMI-Services Interoperability Backbone are developed with industry in a formal standards development organization.

For those with a more technical background, DMI-Services employs a tailored form of the Unified Software Development Process using the IBM Rational tool suite. DMI-Services run as a client in a common services architecture in which communication is achieved via a message-oriented middleware. DMI-Services interoperability is accomplished by exposing selected interfaces to the common services architecture as Web Services using SOAP-XML and Web Services Definition Language (WSDL).