[Blindmath] Accessible statistics software

[Niels Luithardt]

Hi Russell,

i think PSPP is accessibil, because it exists a comand line interface
for PSPP. Okay, I haven't testet it. The Problem with Images is a
general Problem.

Kind regards

Niels

2016-12-09 17:31 GMT+01:00, Kristen Dabney via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org>:
> Hi Russell,
>
> I haven't used PSPP so I can't say anything about it's accessibility, but
> JAWs does work with SPSS.
> The only problem we ran into is that JAWs can't read the output images, so
> the students have to turn in the entire output because they wouldn't know
> if they deleted the graph they had intended to turn in.
>
>
> Have a wonderful day,
> Kristen
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Russell Solowoniuk via Blindmath <
> blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Our university is considering moving to a freeware statistics program
>> called PSPP in place of SPSS. Is anyone familiar with PSPP. Is it
>> accessible with a screen reader? I confess that I've never personally
>> used
>> SPSS either, so can anyone comment on how accessible SPSS is with a
>> screen
>> reader? If you've used both PSPP and SPSS, can you compare the
>> accessibility of both programs?
>>
>> Thanks for any and all help.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Russell
>>
>>
>>
>> Russell Solowoniuk
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