[nabs-l] Using R with JAWS

[T. Joseph Carter]

Arielle,

R programs (for that is what they are) can be written in Notepad or 
any other text editor.  I do not know what the Windows GUI is like, 
but R itself is a UNIX-type program that runs in a terminal window.  
I never found the Windows Command Prompt to be all that efficient 
with JAWS (in fact I hated using it!)

If the graphical interface isn't very good in terms of accessibility, 
it should be easy to fix.

Joseph


On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 06:20:54AM +1000, Arielle Silverman wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I was just wondering whether anyone has had experience using the
>statistical package "R" with JAWS? Some of our stat labs here are
>switching from SPSS to R and so many of our students are being
>expected to learn it. I would like to learn it in order to be able to
>teach/tutor for stats courses here. Since R is a fully command-driven
>program, it seems like it should be fully accessible, but when I tried
>playing with it I couldn't tell whether or not I had received an error
>message after entering a line of code. I am not sure whether this is a
>universal problem or if I just wasn't using the right navigation
>commands to interact with the program. Any suggestions or experiences
>would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks!
>Arielle
>
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