When survey takers enter an invalid response to a question with answer validation applied, or skip a required question, an error message appears above the question. You’ll see a color dropdown when editing the question.Ģ Write clear error messages. If you’re using an accessible theme and adding a star rating question change the icon color to black for good contrast. In the survey introduction, let survey takers know that asterisks mean a question is required.Ģ Change star rating icons to black. By default, when you require a question an asterisk will appear next to the question. If you add a video to your survey, provide closed captions with the video.Ģ Keep asterisks for required questions. Click the links below to find steps to add alt text to each image type: You can add descriptive alt text to images in your survey. Since screen readers can't read an image, they'll announce the alt text instead.
This alternative text, known as alt text, can be in the alt attribute of the image or in the context surrounding the image, like a caption. To make your survey accessible to people using screen readers, Section 508 requires that a text equivalent is provided for every non-text element, like images and videos.
An accessible survey doesn't require a mouse or keyboard to complete.Īccessible standard themes include the right amount of color contrast and brightness to ensure our survey designs are accessible to most people, including people with colorblindness.An accessible survey can be completed using voice recognition software.An accessible survey has the necessary text elements to enable a survey taker to successfully navigate and complete a survey using a screen reader with a text-to-speech (TTS) system.
An accessible survey enables survey takers using screen magnifiers to successfully complete the survey.An accessible survey is designed so that people with varying hearing, movement, sight, and cognitive abilities can complete it.