EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ted Selker
Organization : | CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | Guidelines should be substantive: Sanserif is not well established to be better than serif for reading. As stated above but there are some graphic layout objectives that are worth noting. I disagree with the standard’s statement that usability is not easily tested. People can read a left justified list much faster than a center justified list, vertical alignment of similar things helps visual scan, etc. Skip-to-next as an audio requirement, as the guidelines stipulate, will be useful if and only if feedback were also required. While I and the VTP expect to make detailed remarks on such issues, they aren’t the heart of my observations concerning this document. [Statements submitted at EAC public hearing, July 28, 2005, Pasadena]