[nfbcs] Matlab accessibility problem

Currin, Kevin kwcurrin at live.unc.edu
Sat Aug 24 18:46:52 UTC 2013


Hello Everyone, 

I am taking a course that requires matlab. In class the other day, we all installed Matlab using CDs. However, I found out that extra steps are needed to make Matlab accessible with jaws. I found these here:
http://www.kxcad.net/cae_MATLAB/techdoc/matlab_env/bqwp009-1.html
These instructions say that the CD installation of Matlab edits the correct environment variable and turns on the Java access bridge. The only steps after this were to create an accessibility.properties file and move it into the correct folder in the Matlab package. I did this, and I still cannot get jaws to work with Matlab.

The main problem that I can think of is that we tried installing Matlab through one CD, and failed. We then used another CD, so there were multiple partial installations before a complete installation was achieved. I'm thinking that this may have altered the environment variable. The variable currently looks like this:
C:\Python27\Scripts;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2013a\runtime\win64;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2013a\bin;

Does this look out of the ordinary?

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I am using Matlab 13a, windows 7, and jaws 12.

Thanks,

Kevin




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