[BlindMath] Accessible applications for R

[Godfrey, Jonathan]

Hi Cricket,

RStudio has never been accessible. I have discussed the problem with their staff at all levels every year for perhaps the last six years, maybe even more. I've had discussions with the CEO, the Chief Data Scientist, various technical developers, and numerous sales team members. I like all of the people from RStudio I've talked with, but until such time as they make a definite plan to fix the access issues, we won't see much change. Life without RStudio isn't that bad though.

A common reason for wanting to use RStudio is the excellent tools for writing R markdown documents. These are just text documents though that get processed into very accessible HTML files. The process can be done using ordinary R without RStudio. Your course tutor should know how this is done.

R is accessible. Please visit https://R-Resources.massey.ac.nz/BrailleR

I have been showing blind people how to use R for about ten years. I use R almost daily, mostly by way of writing R markdown documents. I do so using an ordinary old text editor and my own text editor that is full of useful shortcuts etc.

HTH
Jonathan

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Subject: [BlindMath] Accessible applications for R

Hi,

I'm currently starting a statistics course, in which we are learning R. I just installed R Studio and unfortunately, it does not seem to be accessible with either JAWS or NVDA. Do you have any suggestions as to applications I could use instead, or workarounds for this? Thanks so much!

Best,
Cricket

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Cricket X. Bidleman (she/her/hers)
Stanford University | Class of 2021
BA Candidate | Communications
Accessibility Consultant | Stanford University Computer Science Communications Intern | AIRA Secretary | California Association of Blind Students (CABS)

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