The LightHouse Accessible User Experience (AUX) team is supporting an upcoming user testing study to provide feedback on an accessible voting kiosk technology from a company called VotingWorks. We are seeking at least 16 members of our blind and low vision community who are interested to participate in this PAID, in-person 30-minute user study at the LightHouse HQ office (1155 Market St., 10^th Floor, San Francisco, 94103.)

The study logistics & eligibility criteria are as follows:

1. Study dates & times: Thursday (4/30) & Friday (5/1) from 9am-1pm PT.

• Schedule a 30-minute time window to complete the study.

2. Study Requirements:

•  A blind or low vision user who is at least 18 years old.
•  Located in the SF Bay Area (willing to travel and join in-person at the LightHouse SF office).
•  Interested in technology devices and have some familiarity with assistive tech tools/devices and accessibility features, such as screen readers, zoom/magnification tools, etc.
•  Willing to test the VotingWorks kiosk with accessibility tools/features and share your past experiences using voting machines/kiosks.

3, Compensation: $50 ePayment for completing the study (sent via the Ethnio user research platform).

If you’re interested in the study and meet the eligibility criteria, please reach out via email at AUX@lighthouse-sf.org or call 415-694-7358 to schedule your 30-minute time slot next week.

We look forward to hopefully having you involved in this user study to help improve the accessibility of the voting experience for our BLV community!