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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Dec 10, 2013 8:20AM

There is a lot to like about Wufoo for everything from registrations to
conference submissions to ecommerce. It's very popular in small ecommerce
sites. They are more than just a way to create a form, and include some
very good features like sending an entry back to the submitter in an email,
easily being able to manage the forms data, great analytics, integrated
payments, and how easily they embed into other sites.

I met them on a conference where they were used for submissions. They said
the developer did a lot of work to make them accessible. You can edit the
CSS and essentially use them as an API, which they were forced to do.
(Sorry, I don't know any more about the technical details than that.)

I'd like to encourage people on this list to write to them, especially if
you can explain specific accessibility bugs that need to be fixed, or just
to enquire whether they are accessible if you are considering using them.

Like so many other startups, I suspect (hope?) that they simply don't
understand the problems, and don't hear from people who want to use them
but can't because of the accessibility barriers. They are new enough that
some positive reinforcement might have an impact.

Whitney Quesenbery
www.wqusability.com | @whitneyq

Books:

- A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User
Experiences<http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/a-web-for-everyone/>;
- Storytelling for User
Experience<http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/storytelling>;
- Global UX: Design and research in a connected
world<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/012378591X/>;




On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Ryan E. Benson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> 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/.
>
> --
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > > > > > > >
> > > >