[Blindmath] SPSS 19 and Windows 7 64 Bit Operating System

[Birkir R. Gunnarsson]

Hi Ian

I would not count on anything happening to improve accessibility ..
not to the point where you drop out and wait for it.
IBM is a commercial vendor and FS does not necessarily care so much.
You got to "bug" FS yourself and explain the situation, find anyone
else who is using, or trying to use, SPSS, and have them do the same.
Even so, it is not going to happen overnight, so first you need to
find an alternative to SPSS, such as using R. In some instances you
can use Excel, though Excel is not a heavy duty statistics software.
It has its advantages for a lot of things, especially basic financial
calculations and quick and dirty estimates, but you can't drop out
waiting for some software to become accessible, especially math
software that is very unlikely to be anywhere high on a screen reader
vendors priority list.
So, I think you need to think ouside the box and have a plan b, other
than dropping out and wait. Speak up, find people in the same
situation and make sure to provide feedback as users to your favorite
screen reader vendor, whoever it may be.
Cheers
-B

On 11/22/11, Ian Perrault <iperrault at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I’ve heard from some people that SPSS 19 works with JAWS on a 64-bit
> operating system, and I’ve heard that some don’t. I currently have SPSS 19
> installed, and JAWS just freezes. Is it even worth going through installing
> and configuring the Java Access bridge, or does it not even work when that’s
> done? Hopefully IBM will contact Freedom Scientiffic for ideas to make the
> program accessible, and I told the customer service person from IBM that
> idea so hopefully they follow through. At my graduate school they require
> SPSS and I’m actually taking some time off until they make SPSS 100 percent
> accessible.
> Ian
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