[nabs-l] Using R with JAWS

[Sarah Alawami]

Hmm I can navagate  fine in a cmd prompt but that's just me and Iom kind of
a geek anyways. Ok, I admit it! Lol! The trick is using your jaws curser a
lot.

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From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of T. Joseph Carter
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 2:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Using R with JAWS

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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