[gui-talk] political websites

[Doug Lee]

The machine I used was a touch screen machine with what I believe to
be RealSpeak voice prompting.  It was usable, but the lesson I learned
was to avoid rushing it.  I once tried to retreat through the list of
candidates for an office by pressing the Back button three or four
times rapidly.  It took me some five minutes to get the machine on the
right track again after that.  During that time, I would hit a button,
wait for a few seconds, then hear usually two responses from buttons I
had hit some time ago, and nothing about the button I just hit.  I was
about to raise my hand in frustration to ask to be switched to a paper
ballot, when the thing finally got itself in order and let me
continue.  After that, I had no further problems.  The responsiveness
of the voice system is pretty slow, but then I'm a computer guy, so
half the world talks slowly. <grin>

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 09:27:24PM -0600, tribble wrote:
That was the first site I tried this morning -- it didn't work then -- but I 
confess I may have put 2 r's in Barack... Ok, so his site is accessible 
after all.
A little late to be worrying about it though.

I voted today -- won't say for whom -- I was pleasantly surprised at the 
polls in Minnesota -- not only was the ballot accessible, but I was able to 
navigate and fill in the entire thing with no assistance. They had a braille 
labeled voting machine with headphones. I was bothered by a pesky volunteer 
pollster who kept barging in to see if I needed help. I told her when I was 
done I would come out myself.  But to be private I found the brailled button 
to turn the display off so only I knew whom I was voting for.
I confess I'm a waffling libra (I am not superspicious and don't check my 
horoscope or anything, but the indecisiveness fits unfortunately. I liked 
both candidates for different reasons.  Anyway, regardless of party 
affiliation or choices at the polls, Minnesota rocks for accessibility.
I hope others found a similar experience today.
And I hope this country rolls on in the right direction, whatever that may 
be.

Cheers -- go get your favorite munchies and beverage and enjoy the election 
returns.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Baracco, Andrew W" <Andrew.Baracco at va.gov>
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] political websites


Try www.barackobama.com

Andy


-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of tribble
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:44 AM
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Subject: [gui-talk] political websites

Hey all, I know this is a little late, but I still have a few hours in
which to vote -- My question is whether obama has a website.  I tried
various websites for the different candidates based on their names --
for example www.johnmccain.com -- www.obama.com www.ronpaul.com
www.ralphnader.com

etc etc.
Now I find that McCain's site is quite accessible and informative, and
ron paul also has an interesting and accessible site, but the nader site
failed and the obama site is valid but has something on it that freezes
jaws. I can't get it to work.
Now should I vote based on accessibility of a person's website???? and
is the obama.com site really the official campaign home page?

If anyone has a link I can follow for obama, feel free to forward.
Thanks.
--le



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