Sidelined or mainstreamed? political participation and attitudes of people with disabilities in the united start sidelined or mainstream?
Explored how disabilities were related to attitudes towards political participation. Continue reading
Civic Design Bibliography | people-with-disabilities
Competency and voters with psychiatric disabilities: considerations for social workers
Emphasized the importance to assist social workers in making informed decisions regarding preserving and supporting voter participation for people with psychiatric disabilities. Continue reading
Voters with disabilities: challenges to voting accessibility
Reviewed voting access for people with disabilities at polling places and long-term care facilities during the 2008 federal election in comparison to 2000’s federal election. Continue reading
Cognitive impairment and the right to vote: a strategic approach
Advocated and pushes for developments in international human rights law to allow full voting rights for people with cognitive impairments. Continue reading
Voluntary voting systems guidelines (v1.1)
Outlined the set of specification and requirements created by the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to be used when testing voting systems for basic functionality, accessibility, and security capabilities. Continue reading
Who does better with a big interface?
Discussed the effect of current ballot interfaces on user performance with people who were diagnosed and those undiagnosed with a disability. Continue reading
Allowing people of age to vote for themselves
Examined how new technology should make voting accessible to all users without relying on the assistance from others and its impact on persons with disabilities. Continue reading
Assistive technology for the voting process
Reviewed the nature of the voting process, what functional abilities one needs to carry out tasks associated with the process, and what AT products are used by people with disabilities that provide them the functional ability to perform these tasks independently. Continue reading
Land of the free, home of the brave: voting accommodations for older adults
Analyze what the states are doing in terms of accommodating these older voters at the polls, what effect has recent legislations had with regards to senior accommodations, and how to ensure the integrity of elderly rights. Continue reading
Making voting more accessible for veterans with disabilities
Recommended practical and efficient ways to improve voting technologies and election administration practices to assist injured military personal in voting. Continue reading
Enfranchising minors and the mentally impaired
Argued that current age and sanity prerequisites for voting in most places fail to meet the demands of fairness and should be revised. Continue reading
Can the web be made accessible for people with intellectual disabilities?
Aimed to contribute to the social inclusion and best practices for building websites accessible for people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Continue reading
Empowering individuals with do-it-yourself assistive technology
Questions of why assistive technology devices end up unused or abandoned. Continue reading
Technology and everyday functioning in people with intellectual disabilties
Explore and evaluate evidence of the validity of Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire (ETUQ) among adult persons with intellectual disabilities. Continue reading
Defining the barriers to political participation for individuals with disabilities
An overview of disabilities in the United States as they relate to political participation and its barriers. Continue reading
A framework for supporting postsecondary learners with psychiatric disabilities in online enviornments
Discusses the need for universal design in online learning environments and outlined a conceptual framework to be implemented. Continue reading
Cognitive function and assistive technology for cognition: a systematic review
Examined the relationship between assistive technology for cognition (ATC) and cognitive function by reviewing existing publications and studies. Continue reading
Universal access in e-voting for the blind
Proposes a multimodal approach to voting systems that is easy to use and trustworthy for all populations to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction of the voter experience. Continue reading
Accessible voting: one machine, one vote for everyone
Reviews Prime III, an open-source multi-modal electronic voting system that grants equal access, privacy, and secure voting for people with disabilities without the assistance of others. Continue reading
An evaluation of web-based voting usability and accessibility
Assessed web-based voting technology and found that universal design principles were not fully understood or not prioritized for implementation by solution providers. Continue reading