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City accessibility coordinator recommends digital surveys, flags accessibility problems at North Showers polling site
Summary
Michael Shermas of the Bloomington–Monroe County Human Rights Commission presented a BlueDAG survey tool and a site-specific report for North Showers, recommending the county use digital accessibility surveys and listing mitigation options and estimated software costs.
Michael Shermas, special projects coordinator and human rights liaison for the city of Bloomington, told the Monroe County Election Board on a September meeting that the Bloomington–Monroe County Community Accessibility program has used new software to survey polling sites and recommended the county consider purchasing similar software for polling‑site accessibility work.
Shermas showed the board a recent survey of North Showers — the site the county plans to use for early voting — and said the digital tool, BlueDAG, permits trained volunteer surveyors to record barriers on tablets or smartphones and produce reports that pair photographic evidence with specific ADA citations, diagrams and suggested mitigations.
The report Shermas handed board members lists parking‑lot…
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