{"id":2487,"date":"2014-06-24T08:57:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T12:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2014-06-24T08:57:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T12:57:42","slug":"accessible-voting-in-maryland-62414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2487","title":{"rendered":"Accessible Voting in Maryland, 6\/24\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One kind of assistive technology we rarely mention is the accessible voting machine.\u00a0 Primary Voting Day in Maryland is today,\u00a0June 24.\u00a0 You can check with the Board of Elections to see if your polling place is accessible using this link:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elections.state.md.us\/voting\/accessibility.html\">http:\/\/www.elections.state.md.us\/voting\/accessibility.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The touch-screen voting machines used by the state have many accessibility features.\u00a0 The displays offer high-contrast and larger text options as well as adjustable settings for a more suitable viewing angle.\u00a0 The machines can be operated while in a seated position.\u00a0 A set of headphones and an external keypad will be provided in order to use the voting machine with an audio interface.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any disability-related issues while voting, you can contact the Maryland Disability Law Center at:\u00a0 <strong>410-727-6352, ext. 2507.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2487\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP One kind of assistive technology we rarely mention is the accessible voting machine.\u00a0 Primary Voting Day in Maryland is today,\u00a0June 24.\u00a0 You can check with the Board of Elections to see if your polling place is accessible using this link:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.elections.state.md.us\/voting\/accessibility.html The touch-screen voting machines used by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28,27,14,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}