{"id":81,"date":"2009-10-02T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeremyjohansen.com\/news\/2009\/10\/02\/what-is-up-with-the-zoomerang-com-survey-service\/"},"modified":"2009-10-02T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T07:23:00","slug":"what-is-up-with-the-zoomerang-com-survey-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeremyjohansen.com\/news\/2009\/10\/02\/what-is-up-with-the-zoomerang-com-survey-service\/","title":{"rendered":"What is up with the Zoomerang.com survey service?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being asked to take surveys on www.zoomerang.com by two distinguished companies in one week, I am compelled to ask why and when did MarketTools, Inc. take such a prominent market share?  Their survey software is completely unaccessible!  The only button labeled properly is the &#8220;submit&#8221; button. Based on the user experience from my point of view, there is no way in &#8230; that anyone would ever dream of choosing such a service. But there you go again, its a prime case of the pretty graphic artist forgeting to look behind his visually appealing, mouse-driven page. But let me ask you, does this look pretty?<\/p>\n<p>Professional<br \/>\nSurvey\/survey.zgi?p=WEB229GMVUF2Z5#<br \/>\nSurvey\/survey.zgi?p=WEB229GMVUF2Z5#<br \/>\nSurvey\/survey.zgi?p=WEB229GMVUF2Z5#<br \/>\nSurvey\/survey.zgi?p=WEB229GMVUF2Z5#<br \/>\nSurvey\/survey.zgi?p=WEB229GMVUF2Z5#<\/p>\n<p>No, I thought not. Believe it or not, there are many times when such ugly pages don&#8217;t bother me. In fact, I have become quite imune to finding cgi code fragments on sites.  Clickable page menus or link options are tolerable when the link does indeed take you to a new page. But not when nothing happens! These cgi buttons don&#8217;t even change. In fact, they shouldn&#8217;t even be called links because they do not link to anything other than garbage cgi code. But that&#8217;s another discussion entirely. The point is, web developers, why do you so often forget the most basic elements of alt tags and image maps on your cgi deployment?<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, MarketTools, Inc. will soon wake up to the errors of their ways and make what reportedly could be a great service for HR managers and information gatherers into a top notch service for all users.  Will www.zoomerang.com uphold its dignity as the preferred survey provider or buckle to a survey provider with both outstanding statistics and reporting and good user accessibility? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being asked to take surveys on www.zoomerang.com by two distinguished companies in one week, I am compelled to ask why and when did MarketTools, Inc. take such a prominent market share? Their survey software is completely unaccessible! 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