[Blindmath] MATLAB Accessibility

[Pielaet, Jon]

Hello everyone,

I'm glad to hear more on this topic. It is useful information for me. Especially hearing about the limitations of MatLab in statistical analysis.  I was curious about this, as I learned SPSS when I took statistics and have since used R and a little bit of Octave. I have heard MatLab placed in the same category as Mathematica but not as a statistics solution before so this makes sense.

I would like to add one more project to the discussion. iPython has recently become one of my favorite tools. It is a customized Python interpreter that allows you to create notebooks of mathematical expressions and supports different types of plotting and visualization. I like it because it allows you to use Python and Bash commands interactively in the same shell. (So it plays nice with R)

If you haven't used it before, check it out! It is really powerful.

http://ipython.org 


Jon

Jon Pielaet

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-----Original Message-----
From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ramana Polavarapu
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 5:06 PM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] MATLAB Accessibility

Hi John: Hi Justin:

That document is good.  However, to change some settings according to that document, I needed some sighted help.  Once that was done, the rest was quite accessible just like R.  One could also try Octave, an Open Source alternative to Matlab.  What I heard is that Octave lacks some advanced features present in Matlab.  Otherwise, syntax and everything else is the same.  In addition to that, we need not do anything special for Octave to be accessible.

Regards,

Ramana

On 4/12/13, Pielaet, Jon <JPielaet at clark.edu> wrote:
> Justin,
>
> Although I lack experience with MatLab, I know that some level of 
> compatibility with JAWS is possible.
>
> MatLab is written in Java which creates some barriers. The 
> installation of the Java Access Bridge may be required.
> I have found this documentation on getting Matlab to work with JAWS:
>
> http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/323327
>
> I know this isn't a comprehensive answer to your question but I hope 
> it is helpful.
>
> I look forward to hearing from others on this topic.
>
> Good Luck,
>
>
> Jon
>
> Jon Pielaet
>
> Clark College
> Disability Support Services
> Assistive Technology and IT Accessibility Specialist
> 1933 Fort Vancouver Way
> Vancouver, WA 98663-3598
> (360) 992-2314
> (360) 992-2879 Fax
> (360) 991-0901 Video Phone
> jpielaet at clark.edu
> http://www.clark.edu/dss
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
> Justin Salisbury
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:41 PM
> To: blindmath at nfbnet.org; nfb-science at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Blindmath] MATLAB Accessibility
>
> Dear List,
>                 I am a student at the Louisiana Center for the Blind, 
> and I am going to be entering a PhD program in Agricultural & Applied 
> Economics in the fall.  I I am doing a project right now where I am 
> evaluating three statistical packages and their accessibility: MatLab, 
> SAS, and R.  I have found a good bit of accessibility information for 
> R and SAS, and I am trying to obtain all three of them.
>                 The reason that I am writing to this list is to ask if 
> anyone knows where I can find accessibility reviews for MatLab.  Does 
> anyone?  If not, what information can you give me from your own experience?
>                 This information that I collect will ultimately go 
> into a PowerPoint presentation comparing these three packages.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Justin Salisbury
>
>
> Justin M. Salisbury
> B.A. in Mathematics
> Class of 2012
> East Carolina University
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