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From: Poore-Pariseau, Cindy
Date: Dec 10, 2013 8:24AM

Thank you for this information. We did contact the company and the following was their reply:

" We are aware of the error message and color issue with accessibility. For the most part we are 508 compliant. But you're right, there's areas that could be improved. I'll pass this along to our development team to research. I don't think it's anything we'll be able to develop out in the very near future, but please know we're interested in making Wufoo as accessible as possible."

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




-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Whitney Quesenbery
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 10:21 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] accessible forms

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
> >
> >
> >
> > > > > > list messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>
> >
> > > list messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>
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