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

[Steve Jacobson]

Sometimes in situations like this it makes the most sense to pay someone to read the screen and concentrate on 
learning the software and the course materials.  Sometimes one has to decide when to lean on the law and when to 
just get the job done.  When to do which is very much a personal choice and is going to be affected by one's 
circumstances.  On the job, though, there are going to be times when one has to work through situations when 
accessibility may not be the top priority.  Not all jobs are covered by laws that require accessible software to be used.  
Developing the ability to work with someone to read a screen is a valuable skill to have, so taking that approach from 
time to time is very useful.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson


On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:09:36 +0000, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:

>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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