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| | Name : | Eugene Lee | Organization : | Asian Pacific American Legal Ctr. of So. CA | Post Date : | 9/30/2005 |
| Section : | 2.2.7 | Page no. : | 2-30, 31 | Line no.: | | Comment : | Comments on Volume I, Section 2, Voting System Functional Capabilities, Pages 2-30 to 2-31
2. Regardless of the language, candidate names shall be displayed or pronounced in English on all ballots. For written languages that do not use Roman characters (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic), the ballot shall include transliteration of candidate names into the relevant language.
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3. For literate voters, the ALVS shall provide printed or displayed instructions, messages, and ballots in their preferred language, consistent with state and Federal law.
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3.1 The vendor should conduct summative usability tests on the ALVS with literate subjects who neither speak nor read English and report the test results according to the Common Industry Format (CIF).
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Discussion: This requirement is meant to encourage Acc-VS designers to
conduct some realistic usability tests on the final product. For now,
it is purely a documentation recommendation. Future revisions to
the Guidelines will include requirements for usability testing to be conducted by voting system test lab, with specific performance
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