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

[Nimer Jaber]

Hello,

I recommend that this person take a serious look at using excel. I've
heard of someone else trying to use SPSS and it not being accessible,
and I haven't tried it out with the Java access bridge, so can't say
how accessible it is because I don't have the software. The only other
things tht might be trie is to look at other screen readers, but I
doubt they'd work. Maybe someone know si fthere is a script out there
for the software? Or if anyone has the software, can anyonoe script
it?

Otherwise, as I said, I' would stick with excel.

Thanks
Nimer J

On 16/02/2011, Burke, Dan (DSS) <burke at mso.umt.edu> wrote:
> Any comments or suggestions for the post below regarding stats software?
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> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
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> Cross posting on behalf of Queens- pls cc a response directly to: email
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> Posted on behalf of Andrew Ashby, Assistive Technologist at Queen's:
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> Please excuse cross-postings; we didn't want to miss anyone who might
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> 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).
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> 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
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> statistical software called 'R', but it too doesn't seem to work well
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Any thoughts or solutions would be greatly appreciated.
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