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From: John E. Brandt
Date: Jun 8, 2009 8:50AM

I have been using SurveyGizmo as I too had heard good things about it in
terms of accessibility.

While the actual surveys that are generated appear to be fine in terms of
access, I am a little concerned about the backend.

Starting some time last year, SurveyGizmo added a new homepage design which
incorporates some AJAX-style features (specifically the account log in). I
have not tested this for accessibility. Similarly, the backend of the
product also uses some JavaScript features, but those look to be fairly
accessible at this time. But there again, I have not formally tested.

I'd be interested in hearing from others who have used this product,
especially those using it with screen readers.

~j

John E. Brandt
Web Design, Development, Consultation
Augusta, Maine USA
www.jebswebs.com
<EMAIL REMOVED>
207-622-7937 

-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Lisa A. Cammarota
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 9:58 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] FW: Accessible online survey

I believe SurveyGizmo (http://www.surveygizmo.com/) is a product that
creates accessible web survey's. I had looked into this a few weeks back
when we were looking for a product that generates accessible survey's. It
looked good, unfortunately funding feel through :-(

>>> Karl Groves < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 6/6/2009 10:48 AM >>>
Unfortunately the forward stripped Ginger's e-mail, so I'm responding to
both lists in hopes she gets this.

Some time ago, someone posted to either the WebAIM list or the Knowbility
list about http://508surveys.com/. This was more than a year ago. At the
time, I took a poke at it and it seemed to do a pretty good job. At the
time there were some issues with the markup that I though to be silly, but
nothing egregious and certainly better than most other survey tools out
there at the time.

I have not checked lately, but optimistically assume that they've at least
improved a little. Could be a good spot to start.

Karl


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael R. Burks" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2009 7:19:22 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [WebAIM] FW: Accessible online survey

Maybe someone on this list can assist this lady.

Sincerely,

Michael Burks



-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf
Of Ginger Claassen
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 10:15 AM
To: Shawn Henry
Cc: WAI Interest Group
Subject: Accessible online survey

Dear all,

I know that this might be a bit off topic but maybe someone can reply to
me via PM.
For a project regarding navigation for the blind and visually impaired
we would like to conduct an online survey. Since, obviously, most of the
participants require accessible web we want to use a survey service that
offers good access for them.
Does anyone here know of such a service online and could point me out to
them?

I appriciate your help!

Thanks in advance for your efforts!

Kind regards

Ginger

Shawn Henry wrote:
> Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,
>
> [The deadline for comments is corrected to 17 April 2009.]
>
> The Protocols and Formats Working Group invites you to review the
> following documents published 24 February 2009:
> * Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0 - Last Call
> Working Draft
> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/
> * WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide - First Public Working Draft
> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-implementation/
> * WAI-ARIA Best Practices - updated Working Draft
> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/
>
> WAI-ARIA defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more
> accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with
> dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with
> Ajax (also known as AJAX), HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies.
>
> The WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide provides guidance on how
> browsers and other user agents should expose WAI-ARIA features to
> platform accessibility APIs.
>
> WAI-ARIA Best Practices describes how Web content developers can
> develop accessible rich internet applications using WAI-ARIA.
>
> For an introduction to WAI-ARIA and links to related documents, please
> see:
> * WAI-ARIA Overview
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria
> * WAI-ARIA FAQ
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/aria/faq
>
> *Last Call Status*:
> The main WAI-ARIA technical specification is provided as a Last Call
> Working Draft for public review of the document now that it has all
> resolutions from previous comments incorporated. The Working Group
> hopes that it has resolved all substantive issues with this draft, and
> looks forward to progressing to the next stages in completing
> WAI-ARIA. The next stages are described in:
> * How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/w3c-process
>
> Please send any comments
> * by 17 April 2009 to
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
>
> Note: Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid
> cross-postings where possible.
>
> Thank you in advance for your comments.
>
> Regards,
> Shawn Henry and Judy Brewer, W3C WAI
> On behalf of:
> Janina Sajka, Chair of PFWG
> Michael Cooper, W3C WAI Staff Contact for PFWG
>
>
> -----
> Shawn Lawton Henry
> W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> e-mail: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> phone: +1.617.395.7664
> about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
>
>
>
>

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