EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Day Al-Mohamed
Organization : | The American Council of the Blind
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 2.2.7.3.5.3
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Comment : | Many DREs have “time outs” where if there has been no activity for a certain time period, the machine switches off. Blind and visually individuals using an ATI are especially vulnerable to this as it can take longer to access the same information via audio as opposed to visually particularly if there is no way to alter the speech rate. The ability to disable the “time out” for disabled voters might be an appropriate option.