Baseline usability data for a non-electronic approach to accessible voting

EVT/WOTE 2010 - 2010 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Piner, Gillian E ^a   Byrne, Michael D ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

USABILITY ENGINEERING; VOTING MACHINES;

BLIND INDIVIDUALS; BLIND USERS; DIRECT RECORDING ELECTRONICS; ERROR RATE; VOTING METHOD;

ELECTRONIC VOTING;

EID: 81855176925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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