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NIST Finalizes Recommendations on Removing Barriers for Voters With Disabilities

March 24, 2022

To help improve access to voting, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized its publication outlining barriers that limit the

NIST Draft Publication Addresses Removing Barriers for Voters With Disabilities

October 21, 2021

As part of the federal government’s effort to improve access to voting, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a draft

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NIST Seeks Public Input on Removing Barriers to Voting for People With Disabilities

June 16, 2021

To help foster wider access to voting, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting information from the public about barriers that

Publications

Usability and Accessibility of Electronic Pollbooks, Part 2: A Usability Test Protocol

December 4, 2023

Author(s)

Whitney Quesenbery, Lynn Baumeister, Shanee Dawkins

This document is the second part of a series of documents on the usability of electronic pollbooks. It contains a procedure for how e-pollbooks might be

Usability and Accessibility of Electronic Pollbooks, Part 1: Usability in the Polling Place

December 1, 2023

Author(s)

Whitney Quesenbery, Lynn Baumeister, Shanee Dawkins

This publication is a report on the exploration of the use of electronic pollbooks (e-pollbooks) in elections. The scope of this report is on usability and

Promoting Access to Voting: Recommendations for Addressing Barriers to Private and Independent Voting for People with Disabilities

March 23, 2022

Author(s)

Kerrianne Buchanan, Kevin C. Mangold, Sharon J. Laskowski, Karen Reczek

As stated in Executive Order (EO) 14019, Promoting Access to Voting, the right to vote is the foundation of American democracy. The EO further recognizes that

RoboCat: A category theoretic framework for robot interoperability using goal-oriented programming.

July 16, 2021

Author(s)

Angeline Aguinaldo, Blake S. Pollard, Arquimedes Canedo, Gustavo Quiros, William Regli

This paper presents RoboCat, a category theoretic framework for robot interoperability using goal- oriented programming. RobotCat uses a high-level, goal