15 posts in "Tag: language access"
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Testing RCV materials in 7 languages
Learn about how King County Elections (KCE) conducted a multilingual usability study with 7 languages for new voting materials
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How to speak to all voters: A bilingual design guide for voter education
Bilingual voter education materials help bridge the gap for new citizens and multilingual communities, making voting clearer, more welcoming, and...
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Building stronger community relationships
Effective voter outreach depends on partnerships. Here are 3 ways that we have adapted our work to make projects with partnerships more successful.
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Translating for elections
This quick guide contains a few best practices to consider in an internal civic translation process.
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Hiring a language access coordinator
A language access quick guide to hiring one of the most critical contributor’s to your department’s language access plan.
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Working with translation vendors in elections
Guidance on how to choose a translation vendor, and how to work with them.
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Usability testing in multiple languages? Read our new workbook
Multilingual usability testing is an effective way to make sure voting materials communicate to your voters in a language and design that resonates with them....
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Conducting multilingual usability testing
This workbook will help you through the process of testing materials in multiple languages, and provide you with tools to run usability testing from pre-planning...
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3 new language access quick guides to help you build your program
We've just released 3 new language access guides: Working with Translation Vendors, Translating for Elections, and
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Language access helps with acculturation
Getting access to the ballot and being an informed voter takes more than translation.
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Planning language access
Trying to help a community in your jurisdiction that needs voting materials in a language other than English? When CCD...
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Designing great language support for voter registration
Language support can be a challenge. Starting with plain language helps everyone, especially people with low English proficiency.
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Meeting voters’ language needs
We're learning about supporting voters with low English proficiency. Some of the lessons we've learned so far from research about voter guides.
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Language access
How do we design election systems to meet voters’ language access needs? Project partners: Center for Technology and Civic Life. With support from NIST
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A month of presentations
A month of sharing what we've learned about civic design with election officials and UX designers
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