Because hardware and software are covered by the law, many companies are working to ensure that their products meet the new standards, for example, by offering alternative ways in which people with disabilities can enter text and providing verbal alerts and cues for those with visual impairments.
This is a 9-point scale with the following verbal anchors: 1 = very alert, 3 = alert, 5 = neither alert nor sleepy, 7 = sleepy, but with no difficulty staying awake and 9 = very sleepy, fighting against sleep, requiring great effort to stay awake.
Mental fatigue was assessed on a scale similar to the KSS with the following verbal anchors: 1 = very alert, 3 = alert or energetic, 5 = neither fatigued nor alert, 7 = fatigued but not strained, and 9 = very fatigued, exhausted, and incapable of any mental strain.
Among the risk factors, the most prominent factors included breathing rate greater than 49 times per minute or less than 6 times per minute, peripheral oxygen saturation less than 75%%, and coma level with Glasgow coma score less than 5 points or AVPU scale (A: Alert, V: Verbal, P: Pain, U: Unresponsive) different from alert (Additional files 4 and 5).
When drivers approach the hazard you marked, they receive a pop-up written alert and a verbal warning.
A victim can respond to verbal commands and not be alert.
Yet after a while it's clear to me how cannily Morris uses banter and the occasional verbal assault to keep his company alert.
Being alert to behavioural and verbal cues is the road to success.
