[Blindmath] JMP accessibility

[Jonathan Godfrey]

Hi,

I decided that I needed to see a bit of JMP for myself.

I went through the (quite long and unnecessary) process of registering with
SAS who markets JMP and then downloading a large >400 megabyte installer.

I found that JMP was not accessible with Jaws 13 in that it did not read
anything I typed, did not read dialogue boxes in a sufficiently useful
manner, and I could not find the way to ensure that if I could have managed
to get the menus working for me, that I would see the command syntax. I was
particularly disappointed to be unable to find the command syntax as this is
a key method for us to access event he most GUI oriented statistics
software.

In my opinion I now rank JMP behind R, SPlus, Stata, SPSS, Minitab and SAS
for their accessibility. That isn't a ranking list by the way. I put JMP on
par with Genstat and Statistica which I count as currently useless to blind
people wishing to work independently. As with any other software evaluations
I do, I had a sighted PhD student with me. She considered JMP confusing as
compared to other software she uses. (We use Minitab for our teaching).


I would love to learn that this product is or could be made accessible as it
includes a host of tools useful to an industrial statistician that are not
commonly found in Minitab for example. Anything is possible in R of course
but that's another story.

Jonathan

 

-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Ryan Thomas
Sent: Saturday, 18 August 2012 10:30 a.m.
To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Blindmath] JMP accessibility

Hello all,

   One of my classes is using JMP statistical software this semester.
I wonder if anyone has used it before and if anyone knows generally how
accessible it is.  I've never personally used it before.  If anyone knows of
good resources for the blind and JMP I'd also appreciate if you'd send any
of those in.  I realize that most or all that can be done in JMP can be done
with software such as R, but I'm really hoping to be able to do as much as
possible in all of the differing software packages most commonly used by
universities and in industry.  Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,
   Ryan

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