[Blindmath] spss 17 and jaws

[Matthew_2010]

Ask your assistants to run simple stats such as measures of central tendency 
then save the output to a word file. You will find that jaws only speaks 
graphic, graphic, graphic. this is because the SPSS output appears not to be 
accessible at all. Maybe someone else on this list has a trick to make the 
output read with a screen reader, and if this is the case then I hope they 
do so. If you also find a way of accessing the user interface in order to 
enter data, or if you manage to read the output then please post as this is 
a long standing issue with blind students and stats with SPSS. A solution 
some have used is a program called R for stats. Though it kinda works, I 
gotta say its very frustrating to even get the thing loaded on to your 
computer as the manuals seems to depend on one having previous experience 
with the program and is not necessarily written for the new user. You may 
also find the syntax used to process data very cryptic and confusing as I 
have. In short, either way, you will have to ask for lots of help and this 
will make your learning of stats twice as time consuming.

Matthew

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Fernandez" <trillian551 at gmail.com>
To: <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 6:59 PM
Subject: [Blindmath] spss 17 and jaws


> Hello All,
> My name is Mary, and I am currently taking a statistics course in
> college. We are using spss to analyze data, and i was wondering how
> exactly i can use spss with jaws. they downloaded the java bridge, but
> do they have to do anything else with that? Thanks so much!
> Mary;
>
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