[Blindmath] Any Statistical Software Accessible With JAWS?

Thu Aug 25 17:01:31 UTC 2016

Joshua Hori,

I feel that if I forward your questions to Jennifer at DESMOS, she will be able to more directly help you since my time and focus is spent being a classroom teacher, and at this moment I am busy with my grades.

Jennifer,  I hope you don't mind that I am sending these questions about the use of DESMOS for statistics calculations to you.

Sincerely,

Kathy Zolo

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Hori [mailto:jhori at ucdavis.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 9:48 AM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics <blindmath at nfbnet.org>; Godfrey, Jonathan <A.J.Godfrey at massey.ac.nz>; Saaqib Mahmuud <saaqib1978 at yahoo.co.in>
Cc: Kathy Zolo <Kathy.Zolo at asdb.az.gov>
Subject: RE: [Blindmath] Any Statistical Software Accessible With JAWS?

Hello Kathy, 

Do you have more information on how to use it with a screenreader? I can't seem to access the keyboard for the graphing tool (which is a pop up window). It's a little funny in that it accepts latex for some characters and not for others. For instance, I attempted to type out \frac12 for a fraction, but it immediately placed the 12 in subscript, but didn't inform me of that via screenreader. When I typed out 1/2, it came out fine. I can type out alpha and it produces an alpha, but doesn't produce micro unit, delta, sigma, omega, epsilion, or other greek characters. I was able to produce a sum, but trying to enter values into the sum was difficult in that JAWS would sometimes read areas and not others...Maybe I need to test with NVDA instead?

Even when I was able to enter x and y values, I couldn't read the graph with the screenreader. Is there a keyboard shortcut for this?

There is another online calculator which your students may be amazed by. Try out MyScript: http://webdemo.myscript.com/views/math.html (not accessible to screenreaders). Your students will be able to handwrite their equations into the webpage and if there's a graph available for the equation, it links into desmos.com in order to produce a visual graph. It used to link the MathJax file from Wolfram Alpha, but it seems that collaboration has stopped as it's no longer available, and I can't access the math equation like I used to. It also lists the LaTeX and MathML of the math equation to help your students understand how to write it in an electronic format. I write math in LaTeX, save as HTML, and use MathJax to display the math to screenreaders. 

Mentioning Wolfram...They have a new product called Mathematica which is being used now in higher ed. I haven't used it, but I understand they have a blind user who is using it in command line mode. We may have to add this to Jonathan's list of resources as it does deal with stats.

Sincerely, 

Joshua Hori

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From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Zolo via Blindmath
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 7:51 AM
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Cc: Kathy Zolo <Kathy.Zolo at asdb.az.gov>
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Any Statistical Software Accessible With JAWS?

Hello,

Have you heard of the website desmos.com?  They are based in San Francisco, it's a free online graphing calculator that has many calculator features built into it.  For example, if you want to find the mean of some data points, you could enter mean(list the data points), and the program will give an output answer.

If you have any specific questions please get back to me and I will get you a direct contact name and email address.

Thanks,

Kathy Zolo
HS Math Teacher
Arizona School for the Blind (ASB)
Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (ASDB) Kathy.Zolo at asdb.az.gov
Office: 520.770.3276
Fax: 520.770.3735

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-----Original Message-----
From: Godfrey, Jonathan [mailto:A.J.Godfrey at massey.ac.nz]
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 1:45 PM
To: Saaqib Mahmuud <saaqib1978 at yahoo.co.in>; Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Any Statistical Software Accessible With JAWS?

Hello,

This discussion topic comes up often on this list; so often I created a webpage at http://R-Resources.massey.ac.nz/StatSoftware
and subsequently wrote (with help from Theodor Loots, also on this list) that is openly available. The link is on the above webpage.

Jonathan

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From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Saaqib Mahmuud via Blindmath
Sent: Tuesday, 23 August 2016 2:14 a.m.
To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
Cc: Saaqib Mahmuud
Subject: [Blindmath] Any Statistical Software Accessible With JAWS?

Hi Blindmath mates? How are you? 

Is SPSS accessible with JAWS for Windows? If so, can you please send me any scripts needed? 

If not, then is there any other statistical software tool --- in the same group as SPSS --- that IS accessible with JAWS? 

Regards. 

Sincerely,
Saaqib

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