Thank you very much.
People with sight loss, as I said, are a spectrum. It's very important, with any ballots, to make sure that the print is very clear, that the text is very clean, that it has good colour contrast and that the print is large enough. That will really assist seniors and other individuals with partial sight.
Those of us who are blind have our Braille templates that we use in the elections right now. Mine really helps me, because I am able to mark my own ballot. What it doesn't allow me to do is to verify that I have marked my ballot correctly. At this moment, in our current situation, there is no way for someone who is totally blind to be able to mark it and verify it without having someone else assist them.
If you're going to do a mail-in ballot, one of the things that we were working on with Elections Canada was having an option to have a ballot sent to an individual through email as a fillable PDF, so they could fill it in on their computer, not online, print it off and then be able to put it in their envelope and sign it to send it back. A tactile indicator of where to sign would be extremely helpful.
CNIB can help during that process by setting up stations around the country in our various offices to allow people with sight loss to go in and use a computer to print off their ballot if they don't have the equipment at home.
Those are some of the ways we can help.