"The department "Communication Science" of the German University of Muenster has been running the project "Communicative means for accessible survey research" over the last 2 years.
The Siemens colleague Klaus-Peter Wegge is a member of the project's advisory board and participated in the project's final workshop on 1st October where results have been presented and discussed.
The goal of the project is to investigate whether the use of appropriate tools is suitable to enable people with disabilities to participate in surveys and to facilitate participation for people without disabilities, thus increasing their willingness to participate and motivation.
The basic idea of the study is: Accessibility in surveys benefits everyone and in the long run increases the response rates of representative surveys.
Today, there is no obligation to make publicly funded or commissioned surveys barrier-free.
Thus, large parts of the population are excluded from representative surveys. As a result, the special needs of people with disabilities are often not included in decision-making processes when these are based on survey results.
The project findings and results are published (mainly in German language) at:
Ginger Claassen
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