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

[Faiz Rasool]

PASW and R can be used by Jaws users.

If the location of java accessibility bridge has been appropriately set, and 
the accessibility.property file has been coppied into PASW folder, Jaws 
should be able to, and is able to read the menus in  PASW 18. I have been 
using the program with jaws It reads menus quite well. The problem is of 
reading output  in the output viewer. However, it can be exported to 
microsoft word for reading. NVDA also works quite well with PASW. I think 
there is no reason for considering excel as the only solution. PASW can be 
used with jaws.

As Dr. Jonathan has already stated R can be used with these two screen 
readers as well.

I'm happy to further discuss this issue of-list if it is needed.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Burke, Dan (DSS)" <burke at mso.umt.edu>
To: <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 3:13 AM
Subject: [Blindmath] FW: [Athen] Jaws and Stats software


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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