[Blindmath] SPSS accessibility

[Faiz Rasool]

Tim,

I have had limited success with using Jaws and SPSS 18. I have been able to 
use menus in the data editor window and have been able to transfer variables 
into different variable boxes e.g. row variable and column variable. The 
output window is completely unacessible and you have to export the output.

I followed the steps in the documentation  and it work. I  will suggest two 
things. First go back and varify that there's no problem with the defining 
of path  variable e.g. is ; present after the line
c:\ProgramFiles\PASWStatistics18\the path to the folder in this directory;
 Also try NVDA with SPSS.  I have  found that   Jaws tends to be bit slower 
with SPSS and NVDA does not have this problem.

Also i assume that you  installed the java accessibility bridge.

Hope this  helps.

R is certainly a very good option, but I have very little knowledge of the 
program. But fortunately there are members on this list who can guide you of 
how to get started with r.

Regards,
Faiz.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim in 't Veld" <tim at dvlop.nl>
To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics" 
<blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 3:16 PM
Subject: [Blindmath] SPSS accessibility


Hi all,
In a course I am required to use SPSS and it is being claimed in the
SPSS documentation that it was tested with Jaws.
Did anyone ever get this to work and if so, what was your exact
configuration?
I tried SPSS 19 or 16 on 2 Windows 7 x64 and a Windows XP configuration
with Jaws 12. On Windows XP I also tried Jaws 9 but nothing works (no
speech at all). I added the spssPath\jre\bin to the path variable and
copied accessibility.properties from the cd to spssPath\jre\lib as the
documentation described.

I have seen more faillure stories on the internet so SPSS accessibility
looks like a big time-wasting lie rather than a reality so far, very
sad. I know that R works much better so if nobody can explain me what to
do I'll just check with the professor if I can use R in the assignment
although this is likely to make collaboration in the group assignment a
bit more challenging.

Tim

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