Comments on: WebAIM screen reader users follow up survey http://www.lessfussdesign.com/blog/2009/11/webaim-survey-results-oct09/ News & web design articles from Andy Bryant Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:57:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: More on WebAIM’s Screenreader Survey - For Learning Sake http://www.lessfussdesign.com/blog/2009/11/webaim-survey-results-oct09/comment-page-1/#comment-6931 More on WebAIM’s Screenreader Survey - For Learning Sake Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:53:12 +0000 http://www.lessfussdesign.com/blog/?p=90#comment-6931 [...] WebAIM screen reader users follow up survey (Less Fuss Design) [...] [...] WebAIM screen reader users follow up survey (Less Fuss Design) [...]

]]> By: Jared Smith http://www.lessfussdesign.com/blog/2009/11/webaim-survey-results-oct09/comment-page-1/#comment-3922 Jared Smith Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:07:30 +0000 http://www.lessfussdesign.com/blog/?p=90#comment-3922 Thank you for the plug and for your wonderful thoughts on the survey and the survey results. Our next survey will likely look at some of these more in-depth issues through the use of 'real-life' good and bad examples and rating of the users experience and preference with them. Of course survey design is always difficult, especially when you're throwing complex examples and questions at users - and more so when some of those examples may not be optimally accessible. Doing so will inevitably result in a less than optimal sample - those with the highest technical and highest preliminary understanding of accessibility. As we've learned from our surveys, sometimes the most accessible of surveys can cause issues - in this case Window Eyes users struggled because of a long standing issue that results in fieldset legends being ignored. So in some ways, we really want to look into in-depth questions, but at the same time we bash our heads on the desk in frustration that we can't get screen readers to support the most standard of form controls. Thank you for the plug and for your wonderful thoughts on the survey and the survey results. Our next survey will likely look at some of these more in-depth issues through the use of ‘real-life’ good and bad examples and rating of the users experience and preference with them.

Of course survey design is always difficult, especially when you’re throwing complex examples and questions at users – and more so when some of those examples may not be optimally accessible. Doing so will inevitably result in a less than optimal sample – those with the highest technical and highest preliminary understanding of accessibility.

As we’ve learned from our surveys, sometimes the most accessible of surveys can cause issues – in this case Window Eyes users struggled because of a long standing issue that results in fieldset legends being ignored. So in some ways, we really want to look into in-depth questions, but at the same time we bash our heads on the desk in frustration that we can’t get screen readers to support the most standard of form controls.

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