[Blindmath] FW: [Athen] Jaws and Stats software

[Burke, Dan (DSS)]

Any comments or suggestions for the post below regarding stats software?

Dan

 

 

Dan Burke

Assistant Director/Assistive Technology Coordinator

 

Disability Services for Students

The University of Montana

Emma B. Lommasson Center 154

Missoula, MT 59812

 

406.243.4424

406.243.5330 FAX

 

www.umt.edu/disability

 

From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Linda Petty
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 1:42 PM
To: athen at athenpro.org
Subject: [Athen] Jaws and Stats software

 

Cross posting on behalf of Queens- pls cc a response directly to: email
Andrew at ashby at queensu.ca

Linda S. Petty, O.T. Reg. (ON)

Assistive Technology Consultant

University of Toronto Scarborough

ACCESSAbility Services

1265 Military Trail, Room SW302G

Toronto ON M1C 1A4

PH:416-208-5144

Fax: 416-287-7334

www.utsc.utoronto.ca/ability/

Posted on behalf of Andrew Ashby, Assistive Technologist at Queen's:

 

Please excuse cross-postings; we didn't want to miss anyone who might
have a solution to this...  Thanks!

 

Hi all,

 

I've come across the situation where a student who is blind is taking a
statistics course requiring the use of stats software to crunch data and
create graphs for analysis. The student is a Jaws user but the stats
software being used is PASW version 18 (formerly known as SPSS).

 

Our AT Lab has Jaws version 12 and PASW v18 and in testing them together
I found that Jaws isn't usable with PASW since it seems to be programmed
in Java. I thought I found a solution for this online where you create a
Java Access Bridge

(???) in Jaws but it doesn't seem to work with Jaws v12. I tried
statistical software called 'R', but it too doesn't seem to work well
with Jaws.

 

So my question is has anyone come across this sort of situation before?
If so, what solution did you use? Is there statistics software out there
compatible with Jaws v12?

 

The only solution I can see right now is trying to use MS Excel. Jaws
v12 now has a "virtual ribbon" that makes the ribbon menu in Office
2007/2010 more accessible.

 

Any thoughts or solutions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Andrew Ashby - AT Queen's University

 

To reply privately, email Andrew at ashby at queensu.ca

 

 

 

 

 

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