[BlindMath] SPSS and Jaws

[David CM]

Hi Jonathan. Your ideas are very interesting. Do you have tutorials about it?
For example, I would like to know how to create presentations using HTML.
For statistics and maths in general, I use python. NumPy, synpy,
SciPy, etc... I started using synpy since I was a high school student.
But I could consider to use R.
I'm reading the first links you sent. But I would like to know more
about generating visual content, accessible at the same time.

I use Microsoft Word to generate pdf documents that require to be
formated in atractive visual ways. But I would love to generate them
from markDown or another format like that.

Regards,
David CM.

2023-02-26 0:23 GMT-06:00, Jonathan Godfrey via BlindMath
<blindmath at nfbnet.org>:
> David,
> I put the links in my initial response that shows you what I use, but in
> brief, I use R, pandoc, plain text files (albeit with specific extensions),
> HTML every working day and most other days besides.
> I make use of Octave, Python, and many command line tools other people have
> put together, but these are somewhat occasional.
>
> I no longer make use of LaTeX, and seldom use MS Word or Excel. I haven't
> created a power point in nearly ten years because I can make presentations
> in HTML. My use of Excel is pretty limited to its data entry conveniences. I
> must open other people's work (far too often) using MS Word and Excel of
> course.
>
> I investigate new tools to see if my way of working is still the best. For
> example, I will be making more use of Quarto for processing my markdown
> documents in future because it offers some things I want to provide for my
> students.
>
> Perhaps it is worth mentioning my exceptions to using only free and open
> source software. I still use Jaws as my primary screen reader, but I rely on
> NVDA far too often to bail me out of trouble when Jaws is doing something
> strange. I use Outlook for email/calendar because this is what we need to
> use at work. I use Zoom and Teams instead of the alternatives now that so
> many other people are doing so. If I make a meeting appointment it will be a
> Teams meeting, but I always let my clients/students choose their tool so
> that they make the appointment at the time we've worked out. I only choose
> teams because it is linked to Outlook's calendar.
>
>
> In summary, I retain tools that work reliably, work fast, work  the same way
> next time I need to use them, work well with screen readers, and don't tax
> my memory on keystrokes to get the job done. I'm working fast because I use
> tools that can be processed automatically as against manual editing like MS
> Word documents. I rely on little scripts that find and replace text across
> files and other things that keep me and my work up to date.
>
> I claim to be more efficient in my course preparation than many of my
> colleagues (all of whom are sighted). Semester starts tomorrow morning and
> my preparation for 2023 classes was to re-process my lectures from 2022 so
> that they all get the date automatically changed. This is possible because I
> edit them as soon as I find a reason to update them, even if that is done in
> front of the class. If I find an idea that is relevant to my teaching, I
> implement it immediately. This keeps my code up to the most recent (and
> recommended) best practice.
>
>
> HTH,
> Jonathan