Answers to common questions about building your survey, making it accessible and translating it.
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Creating surveys and questionnaire elements
What's the fastest way to create a survey in Maptionnaire?
New Questionnaire > Build a Survey with AI. Give the AI a description of what you're looking for or even paste any materials you may already have, and hit 'Generate'. Read more
Pop-up and Select maps
What is an ID key? Why is it needed?
Every map feature in a pop-up/select map layer needs to have an ID. When the respondent clicks e.g. map feature #5, Maptionnaire records that feature #5 was clicked. Without the ID, you would not know which feature respondents clicked when answering the questions.
The ID key is the name of the column under which the IDs are listed in the map file's attributes. For more information, please see this article.
Can each pop-up have different content, e.g. name and description from the attributes?
Yes, just use Text element and add the name of the column from the attributes in 'curly' brackets { }. Make sure that you spell the column title exactly as same way it is in the attributes, incl. capitalizations.
Can I show a different image in each pop-up?
Yes, you can. For this you need to have added the images to a cloud (please contact support@maptionnaire.com for further info). Then add each URL to the attribute table (or properties/layer info) and make a note of the name of that column. When editing the pop-up, add the Image element and write the name of the column (e.g. "Photos") under Data key for url.
Accessibility
How can I make sure my questionnaire is accessible with a screen reader?
See this article.
Do you comply with ADA? Do you comply with WCAG 2.1?
Maptionnaire follows the practices and standards set by the EU Accessibility Directive and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG2.1) developed by the W3C. We are committed to implementing level AA of WCAG2.1. WCAG is a set of international standards for web content accessibility, which provides the technical guidelines to achieve accessibility online. It is also one of the main accessibility guides recommended by the US Department of Justice for ensuring ADA compliance (source).
Translations and languages
Can I use AI to translate the survey/project page?
Yes, you can! In fact the easiest way to do it is to ask our Google Gemini-powered translation tool to provide the first translation. Then you can check it and modify anything if needed. Read more
How does the respondent choose in what language to view the questionnaire?
Maptionnaire is able to detect the preferred language of the respondent's browser and offer a corresponding version of the questionnaire (if available). The respondent can also always change the language from a drop-down menu on the very first page of the questionnaire. If you have a multilingual questionnaire, but want to make sure that everyone accesses it first in the original language, add a language code to the questionnaire URL.
What if my questionnaire has images with text?
If your maptionnaire includes images that contain text, you can upload their translated versions in the translation tool. First, add the images to Materials. Then simply choose them from a drop-down menu in the translation tool.
We would like to use a translator who is not part of our organization to translate the questionnaires. Is this possible?
Yes, it is possible. You can do this by inviting the translator to your project team. This enables them to view the content of the questionnaires and pages and to use the translation tool. Please see the following articles about how to invite people and assign roles for them for more information on how to do this. Please note that the Translator role by default does not have rights to publish content although they can view and edit it. Therefore, if you do not give them the right to publish content, someone will need to do that for the translations to be activated.
I would like to translate the questionnaire to a language that is not listed as available. What can I do?
If the languages that you need to use in your project are not listed, please contact us at support@maptionnaire.com
My survey is available in English and Spanish. I want to send a link to the English version to some participants and to Spanish for others. How do I do this?
You can do this by adding a language code to the end of the URL. Read more about this here.