[BlindResearch] Looking for JAWS User who Uses Nvivo

[Arielle Silverman]

Hi Justin and all,
Based on conversations I've had with blind researchers over the last decade, I suspect the blind people who use NVIVO with JAWS are mythical creatures.
However, I will also say that I have asked sighted people what purpose qualitative software programs serve, and for the most part I have heard that the only real benefit of programs like NVIVO or Dedoose over programs like Excel is the ease of visualizing qualitative data for sighted users. Regardless of whether you use a fancy qual program like NVIVO or if you use Excel, you still have to do the work of breaking down a qualitative data source into units, reviewing each unit, assigning it one or more codes and then refining codes to identify the most common themes. In other words, while I am disappointed that qualitative software is inaccessible, I don't think blind researchers are missing much when the main benefit of an expensive software program is mostly related to visual ease for sighted users.

While I am definitely not a qualitative research expert, I've analyzed multiple qualitative data sets using either Word or Excel to enter my codes, and my results were essentially the same as my colleagues who used programs.

HTH,
Arielle

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Subject: [BlindResearch] Looking for JAWS User who Uses Nvivo

Hi everyone,

I read the conversation in the list archives here about accessible software for coding qualitative data. I have read that Nvivo is theoretically accessible with JAWS, but my experience consistently tells me that those websites sponsored by the software developers have no credibility. I want to find someone who actually, personally, uses Nvivo with JAWS so that I can talk with them about how it works. Can anyone here attest to their personal use of Nvivo with JAWS or connect me with a specific person who has?

Thank you,

Justin

Justin MH Salisbury (he/him)
Graduate Student
Department of Education
College of Education and Social Services
The University of Vermont
Email: Justin.Salisbury at UVM.edu<mailto:Justin.Salisbury at UVM.edu>
Website: https://www.uvm.edu/cess/cdci/profiles/justin-mark-hideaki-salisbury-he/him/his

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