[Blindmath] SPSS accessibility file

Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson birkir.gunnarsson at gmail.com
Sun Sep 19 20:09:41 UTC 2010


Phil

As far as I know SPSS, post version 15, kis simply not accessible (or
to such a little extent that it is not usable). Do you have the Java
Access Bridge installed?
It is supposed to give you some accessibility, but IBM, that now owns
SPSS, has done awfully little to make SPSS accessible and you may be
forced to find a different solution for your statistics needs.
Again, this is just what I have heard from blind users trying to use
it, and if you can prove me/us wrong in that regard I would be
extremely happy.
You may also, perhaps, try to get SPSS pre version 15 (pre Java switch) ot use.
Cheers
-B

On 9/19/10, Philip So <philipso101 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I am trying to get my SPSS 17 to work with JAWS 10 and 11.
> The instruction provided by SPSS says "Go to the Accessibility folder
> on the CD ROM and copy the accessibility.properties file".
> I have SPSS 17 installed on my computer, but I don't have the original
> SPSS CD anymore.  Do we need any file from that CD to make SPSS
> accessible? Is there another way to do this?
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> Phil
>
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