GOVERNOR'S COMMISSION ON DISABILITIES
John O. Pastore Center (Formerly the Howard Center)
41 Cherry Dale Court
Cranston, RI 02920-3049
[voice] (401) 462-0100 [tty] 462-0101 [fax] 462-0106 
[e-mail] disabilities@gcd.state.ri.us 
[website] //www/gcd.state.ri.us 
 
Election Equipment Accessibility Evaluation
Evaluator: _ _____________________Organization: __________________________________
Brief description of the nature of your disabilities & how it has affected your ability to vote independently and in secret in the past:
____________________________________________________________________________
Please ? (check off) each of the features for voting that you used and indicate what you liked and disliked about using each feature. 
Also please rank (1= difficult to use, 2= easy to use, or 3=very easy to use)
?
Feature
Avanti
Accupoll
Caliber
Diebold
ES&S
Hart
Intercivic
PCC
TrueVote
VoteHere
?
In General:
Directions easy 
to understand?
??








?
Audio:
Voice 
understandable?










Could you read 
the screen, and 
use the audio?










Can you control 
the speed up or 
slow down the 
speech rate?










Were your 
choices read 
back to you?










Were you able 
to change your 
choices? 









?
Key Pad:
Keys big 
enough?










Keys work well?










Easy to select 
choices?









?
Arrow Pad:
Arrow Keys big 
enough?
 
 


 



 

Keys work well?
 


 
 
 


 

Easy to control 
cursor and select 
choices?
 


 
 
 


 
?
Screen:
Was the print 
(font) size large 
enough?










Could you make 
the print (font) 
size larger or 
smaller?










Could you make 
the letters light 
up and the page 
dark?










Were you able 
to adjust the 
brightness?









?
Touch Screen:
Does the touch 
screen work for 
a prosthetic 
finger?










Is it easy to 
touch the correct 
"button"?










Does the contrast 
in color between 
the "buttons" and 
the rest of the 
screen make it 
easy to see the 
buttons?










Is it easy to see 
which button has 
been pushed?










Are the buttons 
large enough?









?
Joy Stick:
Easy to control 
cursor?










Could you use a 
mouth stick?










Could you 
control with 
hands?












?
Feature
Avanti
Accupoll
Caliber
Diebold
ES&S
Hart
Intercivic
PCC
TrueVote
VoteHere
?
General Use
Rank this machine 
for how much you 
like it on a scale 
of 1-10: 10 being 
you like this 
machine as much 
as your favorite 
food, 1 being not 
at all










General Comments (Add more comments on back if necessary):
Avanti		____________________________________________________________________________
Accupoll		____________________________________________________________________________
Caliber		_____________________________________________________________________________
Diebold 		____________________________________________________________________________
ES&S			____________________________________________________________________________
HartIntercivic	____________________________________________________________________________
PCC			____________________________________________________________________________
TrueVote		____________________________________________________________________________
VoteHere 		____________________________________________________________________________
Please return to the Governor's Commission On Disabilities
John O. Pastore Center, 41 Cherry Dale Court
Cranston, RI 02920-3049
[fax] 462-0106 or [e-mail] disabilities@gcd.state.ri.us 
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