Survey Builder Pro 2008 Tool Suite

Lock Media's Survey Builder Pro 2008 is a comprehensive integrated software suite of tools for creating, managing, hosting and analyzing all your survey data collection needs; including online web based, paper based, kiosk, PDA and electronic class room based surveys. Survey Builder Pro provides your organization with a broad range of capabilities for the entire survey data collection and analytical research process.

Survey Builder Pro

With Lock Media's Survey Builder Pro 2008 Tool Suite, you can generate decision-making information quickly using powerful statistics, understand this information and effectively present your results with high-quality tabular and graphical output, share your results with others using a variety of reporting methods, and take advantage of the analytical asset storage and web based deployment capabilities through Lock Media's Managed Hosting Services.

Survey Builder Pro 2008 Tool Suite Includes:

Survey Builder Pro: Web Based Survey Solution

Survey Builder Pro is a fully managed web-hosted survey software application developed for researchers, evaluators, improvement specialists, and organizational trainers. Use Survey Builder Pro to create electronic surveys, 360 feedback reviews, questionnaires and other online forms for data collection, analysis and reporting.

Easy to Use - Create online surveys Quick and Easy!
Full Question Library - Create and store your survey questions in Survey Builder's Robust Storage Library for future surveys!
Layout Templates - Create and store your custom survey templates for quick publishing

Survey Builder Pro is an easy to use web-based survey software that helps you create web surveys using your content, your style, and your research processes. Distribute via email invitations, web links or postcards, and start collecting responses in minutes.

Survey Reports and Data Analysis

Because Survey Builder Pro was built for researchers we understand how important the presentation of survey results and findings are to the success of your project. Professional presentation for your clients, your boss and your entire project team through meaningful, accurate and feature rich reports and slides. Our experienced staff of analysts specializes in providing you and your organization with a comprehensive and high-touch data analysis, reports and presentation materials.

Establish frequencies grids, distributions, charts, graphs and comments online, and ask us for help when the reporting requirements are more complex. Tell us your presentation needs and allow us to consult with you to develop a package that's just right for your project. If you need to share your data with other annalist and need to really get into the details of the raw survey results they can always be exported directly into Microsoft® Excel, Access, SPSS, Crystal Reports, XML and other statistical reporting programs and data formats.

Survey Builder Pro 2008 Features Include:

Survey Design
Testing
Pre-qualification
Sampling
Reporting
Data analysis

List management
Invitations
Follow Ups
Administration
Security & Control
Systems Integration

Survey Builder Pro 2008: WCAG (W3C) and 508 Compliance

Lock Media's Survey Builder Pro 2008 provides enterprise customers with the ability to build and manage web based surveys that are fully compliant with today's accessibility standards. In order to understand these standards we have provided some background information and further resources.

Section 508 Web Accessibility

"Section 508" refers specifically to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. The law requires Federal agencies to purchase electronic and information technology that is accessible to employees with disabilities, and to the extent that those agencies provide information technology to the public, it too shall be accessible by persons with disabilities.

Actually Section 508 was included in an amendment to the Rehabilitation Act in 1986, with the requirement that the Federal Government provide accessible technology to employees and to the public. But the 1986 version provided no guidance for determining accessibility of information technology and there were no enforcement procedures.

The 1998 amendment addressed both these issues. The Access Board (the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board) was assigned the task of determining standards for accessible electronic and information technology. Although the law applies to the development, procurement, maintenance, or use of all electronic and information technology, it is in the procurement where the enforcement lies.

The result of the effort by the Access Board is a set of standards for accessible electronic and information technology. That document includes an extensive discussion on the development of the standards.

The specific standards address:

Software applications and operating systems (§1194.21)
Web-based intranet and internet information & applications (§1194.22)
Telecommunications products (§1194.23)
Video or multimedia products (§1194.24)
Self-contained closed products such as copiers (§1194.25)
Desktop and portable computers (§1194.26)

Our interest here is §1194.22, standards for accessible web-based intranet and internet information and applications since Survey Builder Pro creates web-based surveys and those web-based pages are fully compliant with these standards.

The accessibility standards of Section 508 apply to Federal agencies purchasing electronic and information technology. It is hoped that the market pressure of Federal procurement will have a much broader effect than just making Federal information technology accessible, though even that is an significant goal.

In particular, the requirements of Section 508 do not extend to recipients of Federal funds or private businesses. There is one notable exception to this exemption. According to the ATAP site, "states which receive Federal funds under the Assistive Technology Act of 1998 are required by that Act to provide an assurance of compliance with Section 508. Currently all 50 states and all territories receive Assistive Technology Act dollars and all have some form of Section 508 assurance."

The Web Accessibility Initiative Guidelines (WCAG)

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) was formed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in order to bring accessibility considerations into the technology development of the Web Consortium and to determine guidelines for accessible technology including web authoring and user agents (browsers). As Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, and the Director of the W3C put it, "The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."

The first version of the authoring guidelines, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, became a W3C Recommendation on May 5, 1999.

The guidelines are further organized into a checklist. The checkpoints are categorized as Priority 1, 2 or 3. Here is the characterization of those priorities from the Guidelines:

[Priority 1]

A Web content developer must satisfy this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it impossible to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint is a basic requirement for some groups to be able to use Web documents.

[Priority 2]

A Web content developer should satisfy this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it difficult to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint will remove significant barriers to accessing Web documents.

[Priority 3]

A Web content developer may address this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it somewhat difficult to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint will improve access to Web documents.

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Survey Builder Pro helps you deploy successful online surveys and streamline data gathering for professional survey research projects. Survey Builder was designed through working collaborations with leading researches. Our team of professionals have designed the most feature-rich web survey tool and the most robust, interactive hosting platform available today.

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