Survey tool

Hi, Marcos,

Survey Monkey and Zoomerang are the two most used survey
tools on 
campus.  They are easy to administer, inexpensive, and yield
data tables 
that facilitate analysis.  Monkey Survey, if you have no
more than 10 
questions and, I believe, fewer than 100 respondents is
free.

However, our campus Web Accessibility Group, which I lead,
has found that 
both of these tools are completely inaccessible to people
with low or no 
vision who are using screen readers to access the Web.  This
is frustrating 
in that there are relatively simple fixes to the problems
that we saw when 
we tested both of these tools.  A member of our group even
contacted the 
vendors who provided a reply somewhat along the lines of
"it's on the list" 
-- not understanding that the accessibility-usability link
is most 
helpfully utilized if addressed in the earliest stages of
design and 
development.

But there is hope out there!  Karin Bliman and Elise Jok of
IST 
(kblimanberkeley.edu and elisejberkeley.edu) developed a
survey tool for 
Psychology that is accessible to screen reader users.  We'd
like to see the 
development of accessible survey tools be a lot further
along than it 
currently is in the marketplace.  Maybe this is where we can
contribute as 
a campus.

Happy to discuss off-line...

Dianne
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Dianne Walker
IST - CIO's office
UC Berkeley
2195 Hearst, 2nd floor
(510) 643-0290
fax: (510) 643-5385
dwalkerberkeley.edu

At 03:51 PM 6/27/2006, Marcos Saramago wrote:
>Hello folks,
>
>My department will need to make a survey soon. Are there
any tools or
>services available for us?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>
>Marcos Saramago
>
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