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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Dec 10, 2013 7:37AM

Cindy - I never heard of wufoo before today, so I would say whoever told
you that seems to just be a fan of the tool. They may like it because you
throw together a form, paste in a chunk of code, and the submissions are
auto-sent to you. WebAIM has an article about forms:
http://webaim.org/techniques/forms/.

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Ryan E. Benson


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Poore-Pariseau, Cindy <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Greetings (apologies for cross posting)
>
> We are moving to a new website and are using Wufoo for forms, (forms such
> as admissions forms that students complete online and submit back to the
> school) however I have found these to be inaccessible (when an error is
> made, a message pops up asking the user to redo the parts highlighted
> below. Of course, someone who is blind cannot see what is highlight below)
>
> When I point out this problem I was told "everyone on the planet" uses
> woofoo for forms. Do you know of other companies who support forms that
> are fully accessible?
>
> Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
>
>
> Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he [or she] was born in
> another time.
> Rabindranath Tagore (the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in
> Literature in 1913)
>
>
> Cindy Poore-Pariseau, Ph. D.
> Bristol Community College
> Coordinator of Disability Services
> Office of Disability Services, L115
> Fall River, MA 02720
> phone: 508-678-2811 ext. 2470
> Fax: 508-730-3297
> aim: poorepariseau
>
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