[BlindResearch] Looking for JAWS User who Uses Nvivo

[Edward Bell]

Justin, 

 

I wish to agree with Arielle here. 

When most people enter qualitative data  they make spelling errors or use
different words to mean the same thing. In a rehab survey respondents may
call it cane travel, travel, Orientation and Mobility, mobility, cane
walking, or a myriad other titles.

 

No  software of which I am aware can account for all the permutations of
what people choose to label things. So you really need to pull it down into
Excel, create a new column and go through it response by response adding
your own codes. 

This is what we call data manipulation, and so far as I am aware, data
analysis is the only place where manipulation is justifiable - so long as
you are doing it ethically. 

 

Good luck

 

Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC, Director, 

Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness

Louisiana Tech University

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Ruston LA 71272

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brain than in the near certainty that people of equal  talent have lived and
died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

-- Stephen Jay Gould

 

From: BlindResearch <blindresearch-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Arielle
Silverman via BlindResearch
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2022 4:11 PM
To: Justin Mark Hideaki Salisbury (he/him) <Justin.Salisbury at uvm.edu>;
blindresearch at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [BlindResearch] Looking for JAWS User who Uses Nvivo

 

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:  <mailto:Justin.Salisbury at UVM.edu> Justin.Salisbury at UVM.edu 

Website:
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/his>
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