[Blindmath] Stata Statistics package

[Paul Chapin]

Does anyone have experience with the Stata statistics package? It’s the package of choice for most of our econ department and on paper it appears to be very accessible, but when trying to use it with JAWS it just seems awfully kludgey. For instance it appears that you have to redirect the output to a log file then open the log file in a browser and then access it there.  And since the log file is cumulative, assuming that you don’t periodically stop and clean it out, finding what you need would appear to be a tedious process. However, since I’m sighted and don’t use JAWS much some of this may be just a problem of my not knowing how to navigate quickly so I’d like any thoughts from people who do this more than I do.

And yes, we have R but the instructor is pushing back on using it.

Paul Chapin
Academic Technology Specialist
Amherst College