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The Demographix Research Blog
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October 2009 blog entries:
Sliders give greater interactivity and wider accessibility
31 Oct 2009 — Demographix has added a new question type, called sliders, to its range of survey elements. These questions give a more intuitive and interactive way for respondents to input data, without using radio buttons or tick boxes.
As always, this new technology has been designed in line with our core principles of creating surveys that are accessible to all. Surveys designed for accessibility, as our technology provides, mean that all questions can be operated using keyboard controls, if users can't use a mouse, or by voice command.
Additionally, if the survey respondent is using assistive technology (for example text-to-speech or large fonts or no styles because they are visually impaired) the sliders will display as drop-downs or number entry boxes if needed.
To see our new sliders in action please click here.
To read a PDF spec of the range of sliders available please click here.
Sliders go into final beta testing
15 Oct 2009 — Our new interactive question types, dubbed "sliders", have now gone into final beta testing, and we are looking forward to making them available to users in the next week or two. We apologise for the delay in making them available, but we think that all the work we've put into them will mean they will give better data than any other sliders currently available.
We have also been testing them throroughly so that they will be as robust as possible on a variety of browsers, as well as accessibility-compliant. For instance, our sliders will be keyboard-controllable, so that respondents who cannot use a mouse can still interact with them. Flash-based online survey solutions that can only be used with a mouse are not accessible to such users.
Additionally, if the survey respondent is using assistive technology (for example text-to-speech or large fonts or no styles because they are visually impaired) the sliders will if necessary display drop-downs or number-entry boxes instead of sliders.
Our development work has also solved some major problems around the difference between default values of the slider control and active selection of a default vlaue. Different data values and visual icons are used to signify different responses (or lack of them) and therefore make data more reliable.
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