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

[Tim in 't Veld]

Ian,
I  faced this situation back in august / September and you can find the 
discussion about it in the list archives.
To summarize: no it's not worth trying to get this to work. I wasted 
many hours, trying many SPSS versions on different Windows versions, and 
never got significant speech output with either Jaws or NVDA. According 
to the documentation SPSS is accessible with Jaws, but even the most 
optimistic reports I've seen talk of severely limited functionality. In 
my experience, there's no significant functionality even though I'm sure 
I had the access bridge configured properly.


In my course I ended up letting my fellow team members do SPSS (it was 
only a small part of a research methods course). If you're doing a 
statistics course, go with R. This works well and there's the following 
excellent manual for it:
http://r-resources.massey.ac.nz <http://r-resources.massey.ac.nz>
(heading "LURN for blind R users")

It is a shame that IBM claims that SPSS is accessible with Jaws, this is 
simply not true and this claim causes blind students to waste a lot of 
time trying to get something to work which in reality can't work. I feel 
we should try to get IBM's attention to this issue through some 
collective initiative.

Good luck,
Tim

On 11/22/2011 3:44 PM, Ian Perrault 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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