[Blindmath] SPSS accessibility

[Tim in 't Veld]

Hi all,
In a course I am required to use SPSS and it is being claimed in the 
SPSS documentation that it was tested with Jaws.
Did anyone ever get this to work and if so, what was your exact 
configuration?
I tried SPSS 19 or 16 on 2 Windows 7 x64 and a Windows XP configuration 
with Jaws 12. On Windows XP I also tried Jaws 9 but nothing works (no 
speech at all). I added the spssPath\jre\bin to the path variable and 
copied accessibility.properties from the cd to spssPath\jre\lib as the 
documentation described.

I have seen more faillure stories on the internet so SPSS accessibility 
looks like a big time-wasting lie rather than a reality so far, very 
sad. I know that R works much better so if nobody can explain me what to 
do I'll just check with the professor if I can use R in the assignment 
although this is likely to make collaboration in the group assignment a 
bit more challenging.

Tim