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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Maha,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Unfortunately, SPSS is not completely accessible with jaws. It is claimed by IBM that from version 18 you can use the software by making few changes in the path variable and replacing the accessibility. Properties file. After making the suggestive changes to improve the accessibility of SPSS with jaws, I found that I could use the menus e.g. open the analyze menu to request for a cross tabulation or run a simple linear regression. But few aspects of the programs e.g. entering data directly in the data editor window of SPSS was not possible at least for me. When you try to use the arrow keys to navigate in the data editor windows of SPSS jaws does not always correctly report the location of the row and column you are in. The workaround I found was to first enter my data in excel, and then import it to SPSS. Please note that I did not experienced any major difficulty in assigning variable and value labels in SPSS. The second major issue was that visually impaired users cannot directly read the content of the output window of SPSs. Your option to read the output window is to export the output window as a word or pdf file. Personally I found the option of exporting as a word file very helpful as I could copy and move the tables in other files e.g. course assignments. Please note that other users have reported few problems in setting up the location of the path variable and replacing the accessibility.properties file. Dr. Jonathan who’s on the list has always maintained that R is the best software option for blinds. I personally have very limited experience of using R so I cannot offer much advice myself. But I think Dr. Jonathan has maintained a website where information on using R can be found. I’d suggest that you should explore R if possible. I used stata for a limited time and found it to work well with jaws. My problem was that course instructor wanted all the assignments in MS word and I could not work out how to get the output of R or Stata directly to mS word. With workarounds I was able to get the output of SPSS to MS word though. Please note that it is not that the output of R and stata cannot be sent to MS word it was just that I could not learn how to in the limited time I had and there was no accessibility support office to come to my help. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hope this helps,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Faiz.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> social-sciences-list-bounces@nfbnet.org [mailto:social-sciences-list-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Maha Khochen<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:48 AM<br><b>To:</b> Blind Social Scientists List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Social-sciences-list] introduction<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Hi everyone,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>My name is Maha. I am currently reading for my MPhil/PhD at the <ns0:place><ns0:PlaceType>Institute</ns0:PlaceType> of <ns0:PlaceName>Education</ns0:PlaceName></ns0:place>, <ns0:place><ns0:City>University of London-</ns0:City> <ns0:country-region>UK</ns0:country-region></ns0:place>. My research is looking at the inclusion of visually impaired learners in mainstream education in Lebanon, my home country. It is so interesting to see this mailing list up and running. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I have been looking for some advise on accessible qualitative software package for a while. And was wondering if there is anyone on the list who can advise? I have tried the NVivo but unfortunately it appeared that it is not accessible with Jaws, the screen reader that I use to access information. Any advise with this regard is very much appreciated. Note that I have no residual vision.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Another thing, I am taking training on the <ns0:stockticker>SPSS</ns0:stockticker> software very soon, it would be very much appreciated if I can have some advise based on your experience whether it is accessible and that blind researchers can use it with no problem. Alternatively, any advise for an accessible quantitative software package would be very much appreciated too.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Looking forward to hearing from you.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Maha</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:EMorman@nfb.org" title="EMorman@nfb.org">Morman, Ed</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Wednesday, July 25, 2012 4:01 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:social-sciences-list@nfbnet.org" title="social-sciences-list@nfbnet.org">social-sciences-list@nfbnet.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> [Social-sciences-list] introduction<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Dear Listmembers—<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>I’m pleased to see that my colleague Anna Kresmer has already joined the list. Like Anna, I am a sighted staff member at the NFB Jernigan Institute in Baltimore. I have a PhD in History of Science and worked for many years in the field of history of medicine as a librarian, occasional teacher, and not terribly productive researcher. I know a wee bit about social science research methods and have an avocational (extremely avocational) interest in cognitive science. Curiosity about how people construct their internal model of the world without sight was part of the reason I was interested in working for an organization related to blindness—especially a blind-led organization of blind people. I’ve been here for four years now and I’m enthusiastic about NFB philosophy and its notion of what constitutes proper training. With Anna Kresmer and our colleague Lou Ann Blake, I’ve developed something of an understanding of the history of the blind in the U.S. and more specifically the history of the NFB.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>I’ll mainly be lurking, but might occasionally have something to say. With any luck it will be intelligent and even possibly helpful to other listmembers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Cordially,</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Vladimir Script";color:#004000'>Ed Morman</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Edward T. Morman, MSLS, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Director, Jacobus tenBroek Library<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND JERNIGAN INSTITUTE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:black'>200 East Wells Street</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:black'> at Jernigan Place</span></i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:black'>Baltimore MD 21230<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>410.659.9314 x2225<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>410.685.2340 (fax)</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>_______________________________________________<br>Social-sciences-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Social-sciences-list@nfbnet.org">Social-sciences-list@nfbnet.org</a><br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/social-sciences-list_nfbnet.org">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/social-sciences-list_nfbnet.org</a><br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Social-sciences-list:<br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/social-sciences-list_nfbnet.org/mahakhechen%40hotmail.com">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/social-sciences-list_nfbnet.org/mahakhechen%40hotmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>