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

[Jonathan Godfrey]

Hi,

I use R every day of my working life.

Use the terminal version not the gui version. Jaws and NVDA work well 
with it and I have no reason for believing Window Eyes don't

I personally have issues with Excel and its usefulness for 
statistical analyses. Use it with caution if you do much more than 
the simple calculations.

Jonathan
(This message may seem short due to me being away from home on overseas travel)

At 11:17 a.m. 17/02/2011, you wrote:
>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?
> >
> > Dan
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> > Dan Burke
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> > Assistant Director/Assistive Technology Coordinator
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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
> >
> > (???) 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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