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-====== Interviewing Visually Impaired Participants ======+====== Surveys for Visually Impaired Participants ======
  
 This chapter outlines the barriers that blind and visually impaired people encounter on the internet. In particular, it explains how these barriers affect designing an online questionnaire. This chapter outlines the barriers that blind and visually impaired people encounter on the internet. In particular, it explains how these barriers affect designing an online questionnaire.
  
-Questionnaires created using SoSci Survey are fundamentally barrier-free. People using a screen reader can change into an accessibility mode during the interview. Some types of questions are different in this mode in order to support the screen reader reading the text.+Questionnaires created using SoSci Survey are fundamentally barrier-free. People using a screen reader can change into an accessibility mode during the questionnaire. Some types of questions are different in this mode in order to support the screen reader reading the text.
  
 **Note:** If your questionnaire is not suitable for people who are visually impaired due to its methodology (e.g. because it uses visual stimuli), then select the option that the questionnaire is not suitable for screen readers in **Compose Questionnaire** -> //Settings// tab -> Settings //Screen reader mode//. Instead of switching into the accessibility mode, the questionnaire then contains information that can only be seen by screen readers. **Note:** If your questionnaire is not suitable for people who are visually impaired due to its methodology (e.g. because it uses visual stimuli), then select the option that the questionnaire is not suitable for screen readers in **Compose Questionnaire** -> //Settings// tab -> Settings //Screen reader mode//. Instead of switching into the accessibility mode, the questionnaire then contains information that can only be seen by screen readers.
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 ===== Have the Questionnaire Read Out Loud ===== ===== Have the Questionnaire Read Out Loud =====
  
-A slightly restricted version of the JAWS for Windows screen reader can be downloaded from the manufacturer [[http://www.freedomsci.de/serv01.htm|Freedom Scientific]]: The restricted version ends after only 40 minutes and has to be restarted. Although extremely unfamiliar at first for someone with normal vision, quickly testing the questionnaire in screen reader mode can prove to be very insightful.+A slightly restricted version of the JAWS for Windows screen reader can be downloaded from the manufacturer [[http://www.freedomsci.de/serv01.htm|Freedom Scientific]]: The restricted version ends after only 40 minutes and has to be restarted. Although extremely strange at first for someone with normal vision, quickly testing the questionnaire in screen reader mode can prove to be very insightful.
  
 For those of you short on time, install the plug-in [[https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/fangs-screen-reader-emulator/|Fangs Screen Reader Emulator]] for the Manilla Firefox browser. This plug-in renders websites in a text version of how a screen reader would read it. For those of you short on time, install the plug-in [[https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/fangs-screen-reader-emulator/|Fangs Screen Reader Emulator]] for the Manilla Firefox browser. This plug-in renders websites in a text version of how a screen reader would read it.
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