Research in Accessible Voting Project Dan Gillette daniel.gillette@sv.cmu.edu Team Ashwin Arun Research Assistant Dan Gillette Project Scientist Ted Selker Associate Director, CyLabMobility Research CenterDistinguished Service Professor Shama Hoque Graduate Assistant Contributors: Rahul Rajan, Cliff Chen, Joey Hsiao Command & Control Audio Ballots .More efficient list browsing .Write-in systems for non-alphabeticcontrol sets .Considerate dialogs and help .Review schemes, such as review-in-place .Earcons .System responsiveness Audio-only ballots can take 8-10 times longer to complete comparedto typical graphical DREs Multimedia Interfaces .Contextual awareness .Focus .Considerate capabilities Voting Magnifiers .Focus on those that do not utilize assistive magnification in their daily lives .Hands-free .Sticking Points .Focal length .Reflectivity .Light transmission .Installation .Cost .Portability I believe: .Everyone should be able to vote independently, accurately and efficiently .More and more, those that could benefit from assistive technologydon’t realize it, don’t know solutions exist, and don’t know how togain access .Access is more than making solutions available .Voting interfaces could gain a lot from contemporary design conventions .Design can solve these problems, but simplification can’t be the onlygoal Research in Accessible Voting Project Dan Gillette daniel.gillette@sv.cmu.edu