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Name :   Ted Selker
Organization :   CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Post Date :   9/30/2005

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Comment :  Guidelines should be substantive: Sanserif is not well established to be better than serif for reading. As stated above but there are some graphic layout objectives that are worth noting. I disagree with the standard’s statement that usability is not easily tested. People can read a left justified list much faster than a center justified list, vertical alignment of similar things helps visual scan, etc. Skip-to-next as an audio requirement, as the guidelines stipulate, will be useful if and only if feedback were also required. While I and the VTP expect to make detailed remarks on such issues, they aren’t the heart of my observations concerning this document.

[Statements submitted at EAC public hearing, July 28, 2005, Pasadena]