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From: Catherine Roy
Date: Jun 2, 2013 9:34PM

Hi Lucy,

With the limited and cryptic information you have provided, I am
guessing you need a survey tool or service and are asking for advice on
which is the lesser of two evils. It is very difficult to answer your
questions without having access to the two tools you reference. The only
thing I can add here is that in all the survey tools I have tried out,
Lime Survey is the best: professional, usable, accessible, standards
compliant, open source and free. You can host it yourself or can have it
hosted free (although some features may not be available if you use a
free hosting service offered). I have used this tool extensively and
have only good things to say about it (so far ;)

https://www.limesurvey.org/

Best regards,


Catherine

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Catherine Roy
http://www.catherine-roy.net



On 02/06/2013 9:24 PM, Lucy Greco wrote:
> Hello:
> I have to pick between two produces that as far as I am conserved have
> serious access problems. These are two specific survey tools for a
> specific kind of survey. I can't say much more about the product. But the
> lesser of the two produces when I tab through the page it does not read
> the questions. However if I move with arrow keys I can find a question
> and then move to the buttons below the questions in order as long as I
> remember the direction I would say its ok. However that product has so
> many other drawbacks that makes it all-around a bad product for what we
> need.
> The other product is perfect for what we need but has so much crap on the
> screen it takes a lot of will power to get through it. they have about 10
> skip links allow on the page witch were well intentioned but far to over
> kill for example on a page with only one question it has a skip to
> question and a skip to answer link. Both at the top with a bunch of other
> stuff like error reporting links even without errors. The other problem
> with the over kill is that when you have a ranking set of questions in a
> table again it is over verbose a screen reader user needs to move
> through the table with aero keys only because otherwise you miss the
> questions completely but you then get each chose as two key strokes and
> read twice. So it reads
> Q chose 1 chose one radio button chose 2 chose 2 radio button and so on
> with two key strokes per answer.
> The other one that is not so good also has the problem of not telling you
> witch choice you made. How can I chose between these two products. Oh
> and it's an RFP so I can't ask one of them if they can fix it before I
> make the choice. Any help would be more then welcome urgently Lucy
>
> Greco
> Web Access Analyst
> IST-Campus Technology Services
> University of California, Berkeley
> (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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> > >