Employee engagement surveys are excellent tools.
They’re one of the best ways to improve all areas in your workplace – from wellbeing to productivity.
But without everyone being able to access and respond to engagement surveys, the feedback you receive won’t be representative of your full team.
That’s why accessible surveys matter – it’s about giving a voice to all.
When you truly understand your whole team, you’ll be able to make positive changes that matter to the majority.
At Stribe we believe that no matter where you are, what role you play, or what background you come from, your voice deserves to be heard and valued.
Alternative employee engagement survey platforms – like Google Forms and SurveyMonkey – don’t have a dedicated survey app which allows employees to complete surveys via their mobile phones.
Instead, most surveys are sent to employees’ email inboxes which excludes all employees that don’t have computers, aren’t traditionally desk-based, and are considered dispersed employees.
At Stribe, we specialise in helping dispersed workforces and our surveys are built to reach everyone – no matter where they are located.
With Stribe, your employees can complete surveys via email, QR code, or via Stribe’s employee engagement iOS and Android app – whichever is easiest and quickest for them.
Stribe vs. Google Forms Stribe vs. SurveyMonkey
Continuing on from the point above, not everyone has a company email address or laptop, making it difficult for managers to check in on these employees.
For some organisations, that means hundreds – sometimes thousands – of workers that are excluded from sharing their thoughts, feelings, experiences and challenges.
If you are unable to include this group in your employee engagement surveys, you won’t have a full picture of how your entire workforce is feeling over time.
To solve this problem, Stribe has a built-in QR code surveying tool for non-desk-based staff.
Once a QR code is generated in Stribe and linked to a survey, it can be printed out and scanned by employees around the office to give their anonymous responses.
Stribe is, for the first time, something that is truly accessible to everyone. It allows for communication which we’ve never had before. Many of our staff are geographically distant and dispersed, so it is difficult for us to understand what they’re thinking and feeling without something like Stribe. 
Interface adjustments create a more inclusive experience for your employees completing your surveys.
For example some people prefer larger font sizes to make reading easier, other people like to work in light/dark mode depending on their lighting situation.
Choosing a survey platform that offers these choices ensures that everyone can engage with engagement surveys comfortably – which also helps to gather more honest and comprehensive feedback.
At Stribe we are committed to continually improving the accessibility of the platform based on our customer’s experiences.
Parts of Stribe’s interface that are currently adjustable:
Finally, you should make sure that the employee engagement survey platform you choose is compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
This means the platform has been built in a way to accommodate for all users including:
To read about how we at Stribe make a commitment to ongoing accessibility, please find our Accessibility Statement.
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About the author
Lucy Harvey, COO at Stribe, has 11+ years’ experience in purpose-driven leadership roles across health, wellbeing, internal communications, employee engagement, and marketing. She is passionate about creating workplaces where people are happy, fulfilled, and feel comfortable and safe to talk.
