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Provide alternate write-in keyboard layouts #374

Open beausmith opened 5 years ago

beausmith commented 5 years ago

Moving comment from @whitneyq on https://github.com/votingworks/bmd/issues/333 here to new issue:

I'd be happy to talk about alpha vs. qwerty layout considerations if you're interested. We did a little research on this for the VVSG work. Two bottom lines:

  • People who know keyboards can navigate ALPHA layouts but prefer QWERTY
  • People who don't use computers or don't read well prefer ALPHA

Existing systems: Switch order is alpha in all current systems. One existing system has a QWERTY layout, but does switch access in ALPHA order, and confused everyone (except totally blind voters). One has a option to switch between the two (I can't remember how this was done, but I think it was a system that required access switches to be activated [boo] so it was tied to that preference option)

Also, Denis Anson has been noodling on how to do keyboard entry a lot, so we had him talk about his ideas in the videos

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whitneyq commented 5 years ago

Thanks. Makes more sense in its own thread.