A tool for monitoring Web Accessibility will be designed in the project European Internet Accessibility Observatory (EIAO):
- Provide ranking lists of accessible web sites to fuel competition, leading to improvements and raised awareness.
- Provide more detailed information about accessibility to enable policy makers to design more effective policies and encourage web developers to improve their sites.
To ensure the developments are relevant to real users, we will consult different groups of users. We have already conducted a questionnaire with end-users, and now aim to identify the requirements of other groups of users to aid development of the Observatory.
Please read the two descriptions below and select the questionnaire which is most relevant to your situation. The questionnaire should take between 10 and 15 minutes to complete.
The survey is open until 22.April.
Follow-up interviews will also be conducted to ask more specific questions relating to the requirements and user expectations of an Observatory for monitoring, ranking etc., and for the Observatory design.
Questionnaire for Web Developers
This questionnaire is aimed at people who may have web responsibilities within their organisation, and/or may need information on web accessibility as input to their work in planning, reporting and proposing new web accessibility actions and policies, or to aid decision making. Examples include disability organisation who provide services to their users via the web; public sector organisations who have a web presence; organisations who provide advice and guidance on web accessibility. The questionnaire can be downloaded with the following links:
PDF: Questionnaire for Web Developers
Plain Text: Questionnaire for Web Developers
OpenOffice: Questionnaire for Web Developers
Microsoft Word: Questionnaire for Web Developers
Questionnaire for website owners
This questionnaire is aimed at people who own, provide or host web services and would want to include accessibility related information or would want to use such data systematically in their development work. Examples include web service providers; Internet Service Providers, Hosting organisations; search engine organisations; providers of content management systems, statistics agencies. The questionnaire can be downloaded with the following links:
PDF: Questionnaire for website owners
Plain Text: Questionnaire for website owners
OpenOffice: Questionnaire for website owners
Microsoft Word: Questionnaire for website owners
Many thanks for your input. All responses will be kept in strict confidence.
Please send your responses by email to: j.craven@mmu.ac.uk
or by post to:
Jenny Craven, Research Associate
CERLIM
Manchester Metropolitan University
Dept. of Information and Communications
Geoffrey Manton Building
Rosamond Street West
Manchester M15 6LL
UK
