EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | James McCarthy
Organization : | National Federation of the Blind
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 2.2.7.2.2.1
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Comment : | At 2.2.7.2.2.1, the statement, “The vendor should conduct summative usability tests on the Acc-VS using partially sighted subjects and report the test results to the voting system test lab according to the Common Industry Format (CIF)[,]” is repeated within the section concerned with accessibility to blind voters. Blind users may have a modest amount of vision, but these users tend to need speech rather than print to access the voting system. This provision should be rewritten for blind voters rather than simply restating the prior requirement first stated at 2.2.7.2.1.