Resources

An early assessment of the growing trend of states expanding the use of absentee and early in-person voting in elections.

This resource allows election officials to estimate the number of accessible voting machines needed at a given polling place to meet target wait times for voters with disabilities. This calculation accounts for factors such as number of in-person voters, check-in stations, and hand-marked ballot voting stations, among others.

This document outlines best practices for developing audio and tactile controls for voting systems. These best practices are intended to give voting system designers methods to improve their existing audio or for creating audio for a new voting system. They propose an incremental approach to testing the audio with voters with disabilities.

This resource provides an overview of the federal laws that facilitate voting by people with disabilities. It contains links to resources and tools for election officials and organizations to understand the experiences of voters who are blind or low vision and to learn how to better serve them. This includes materials that educate and encourage blind voters to become poll workers.

This usability testing kit contains a collection of guidelines and templates to help election officials check the usability of election materials. They are intended to help election officials systematize their usability tests, produce reliable findings, and expand their ability to test voting materials thoroughly with real users.

VoterCast is a tool for election officials aimed at streamlining the voter outreach process using research-backed content.

Use this tool to estimate how long it takes voters to mark a ballot.