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

[Alex Hall]

Also, if you do not care about graphs as much and really just want
numbers (standard deviations, densities, and so on) you can have a
copy of a stats calculator I wrote last year. It runs as a webpage, so
you just need a web browser with javascript enabled It has basics,
confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and a few other things, and
it was good enough for my professor (she helped me write it, in fact).
Let me know if you want a copy. Again, it is nothing fancy and will
not do graphs (use Excel for this; I had pretty good luck with it).

On 2/16/11, Nimer Jaber <nimerjaber1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
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> 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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>> Dan
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>> Dan Burke
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>> Assistant Director/Assistive Technology Coordinator
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>> Disability Services for Students
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>> The University of Montana
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>> Emma B. Lommasson Center 154
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>> 406.243.5330 FAX
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>> www.umt.edu/disability
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>> 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
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>> Cross posting on behalf of Queens- pls cc a response directly to: email
>> Andrew at ashby at queensu.ca
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>> Linda S. Petty, O.T. Reg. (ON)
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>> Assistive Technology Consultant
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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
>> have a solution to this...  Thanks!
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>> Hi all,
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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
>> Java Access Bridge
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>> (???) 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.
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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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>> Thanks,
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>> Andrew Ashby - AT Queen's University
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>> To reply privately, email Andrew at ashby at queensu.ca
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