[Blindmath] MiniTab

[Paul Chapin]

Am I to understand from this that they managed to take an accessible product and make it inaccessible?  They still claim to be 508 compliant but they don't appear to make the VPAT available on the web.

Paul Chapin
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Amherst College
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From: Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com<mailto:jty727 at gmail.com>>
Reply-To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics <blindmath at nfbnet.org<mailto:blindmath at nfbnet.org>>
Date: Sunday, June 2, 2013 3:54 PM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics <blindmath at nfbnet.org<mailto:blindmath at nfbnet.org>>
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] MiniTab

Is there anywhere to find MiniTab version 12?

On 6/2/13, Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com<mailto:jty727 at gmail.com>> wrote:
I think we might talk about that at some point.  Thanks for your help!:)

On 6/2/13, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com<mailto:mwhapples at aim.com>> wrote:
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<mailto: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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