PINELLAS PARK, Fla., June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Access Ready Reporter Issue 15 -The Reporter Newsletter is a service of Access Ready Inc. which is a nonprofit cross disability advocacy organization promoting a policy of inclusion and accessibility across information technology through education and best practices. The Board of Directors of Access Ready has deemed inaccessible information technology to be a clear, growing, and present danger to the civic, economic, and social welfare of people with disabilities.
This advocacy challenge developed when the SBE put out a request for proposal for a new pollbook system for use in Maryland elections. Then in the opinion of the Community partners the state rejected the proposal of the only accessible pollbook system that the organizations had been asked to test and give input on. In the opinion of the organizations and their legal…
