Webinar at EASI: Making Surveys Accessible

SurveyGizmo has been invited to speak about making surveys accessible and building accessible forms for EASI, Equal Access to Software and Information. EASI hosts weekly webinars on a variety of online accessibility topics. You can read more about their Accessibility Webinar schedule here or go directly to the sign-up for “Making Accessible Online Surveys”.

EASI’s request was last minute, because their scheduled speaker on this topic unfortunately fell ill. Norm Coombs of EASI googled “Accessible Surveys” and we came up. He gave us a call and we were more than happy to fill in since accessible surveys and accessible forms is something we are really passionate about.

By the way, if you haven’t had a chance to read OSU’s - Web Accessibility Center’s review of accessibility in surveys tools, please do. It’s a great detailed review of online survey tools, including SurveyGizmo. We took this survey review to heart and the next release of SurveyGizmo will implement most of the suggestions they made to even further improve accessibility in our surveys.

PS - If you aren’t familiar with the term “accessibility” as it relates to surveys, forms or other online content, that’s OK. Web Accessibility describes the degree to which the online content, website or service is able to provide the functionality to persons with disabilities in general. This might refer to someone who is blind, has reduced mobility and can’t use a mouse, etc. In an effort to make our surveys more accessible, SurveyGizmo employs methods that allow screen readers to interact with the surveys. We make the surveys keyboard navigable so someone unable to use a mouse can still interact. There is more to it than that, but you get the idea.