[Blindmath] MiniTab

[Michael Whapples]

The plugin I referred to is a plugin for the statistics package called R 
http://www.r-project.org and was to produce the graphs for statistical 
process control (SPC). Other than minitab can do SPC and so can the 
plugin, there is no relationship between the two (IE. the one does not 
provide an interface for the other, they are purely alternative software 
for doing SPC).

If SPC is a topic you will be covering then I can look back at my work 
to remind myself what the R plugin is called and where it can be 
obtained from.

Michael Whapples
On 02/06/2013 00:23, Justin Young wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback.  Where/how do you get this "plug-in"?  Thanks so much!
>
> On 6/1/13, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> It was about a year ago, or 18 months, I was on a course where minitab
>> was used as part of the course. You are correct about the accessibility
>> (I think it was version 12 which was the last accessible version).
>> However my university was unable to get hold of version 12, however they
>> were agreeable for me to use other software for the tasks. May be
>> something similar could be done in your case.
>>
>> You probably can find other software for the tasks you would need to
>> undertake. What the alternative software is might depend a bit on what
>> precisely needs to be done. In my case I ended up using R and a plugin,
>> however R may not be the best option for everything. Sometimes for
>> simpler things even excel can be enough.
>>
>>   From what I have heard, minitab 12 was usable with a screen reader but
>> I have not had any practical experience and only know what others have
>> told me.
>>
>> I feel this has not been too specific, but I would imagine if you went
>> down the route of using other tools then there would be people who would
>> be willing to help you learn how to use it for the tasks you need to
>> perform. Feel free to ask questions on what accessible tools may be good
>> for certain tasks.
>>
>> Michael Whapples
>> On 01/06/2013 20:50, Justin Young wrote:
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> My name is Justin Young and I'm a blind student currently taking an
>>> intro stats course which is a prerequesit for a master's program that
>>> I'll be starting in the Fall.  I just subscribed officially to this
>>> list today, but before I did I tried sending a message so not sure if
>>> that message will be sent as well.  If it is, I apologize for the
>>> double posting.  My course is using a program called MiniTab 16 and
>>> I've never used it before.  I tried playing with the program that I
>>> installed on my computer and its not really fun to play with, haha!  I
>>> came across a thread via google from this list on this subject and
>>> wanted to ask a few questions.  I believe the last version accessible
>>> to screen readers was version 12 or 13?  How many on this list have
>>> heard of it or have used this program?  Any suggestions, advice,
>>> comments you have are greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Justin Young
>>>
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