[Blindmath] SPSS accessibility

[Faiz Rasool]

Tim,

If you only have access to SPSS 16, then NVDA is your best option,  to the 
best of my knowledge. Java access bridge has to be  downloaded and installed 
separately, but I did notice recently that now you download java access 
bridge from the internet as a zipped folder and coppy the files into 
different locations.  Googling java access bridge should be useful, and you 
can find the instructions on how to coppy the files as well.  But please 
keep in mind that java access bridge comes in handy when you are using SPSS 
18 or later.

Hope this helps,
Faiz.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim in 't Veld" <tim at dvlop.nl>
To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics" 
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Cc: "Faiz Rasool" <faiz7r at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] SPSS accessibility


Faiz,
Thank you for your help. I did get NVDA to read menus and many other
elements in SPSS 16, where Jaws doesn't read anything. You mention the
need to separately install java access bridge, a requirement not
mentioned in the documentation. How should I do this? As I recall there
is some access bridge zip file which had to be extracted to a certain
JRE subdirectory but as the documentation didn't mention anything about
this I had assumed the JRE installed with SPSS didn't require this patch.
Tim
On 9/9/2011 1:06 PM, Faiz Rasool wrote:
> 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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