[Blindmath] SPSS accessibility

[Tim in 't Veld]

Faiz,
Thank you for your help. I did get NVDA to read menus and many other 
elements in SPSS 16, where Jaws doesn't read anything. You mention the 
need to separately install java access bridge, a requirement not 
mentioned in the documentation. How should I do this? As I recall there 
is some access bridge zip file which had to be extracted to a certain 
JRE subdirectory but as the documentation didn't mention anything about 
this I had assumed the JRE installed with SPSS didn't require this patch.
Tim
On 9/9/2011 1:06 PM, Faiz Rasool wrote:
> Tim,
>
> I have had limited success with using Jaws and SPSS 18. I have been able to
> use menus in the data editor window and have been able to transfer variables
> into different variable boxes e.g. row variable and column variable. The
> output window is completely unacessible and you have to export the output.
>
> I followed the steps in the documentation  and it work. I  will suggest two
> things. First go back and varify that there's no problem with the defining
> of path  variable e.g. is ; present after the line
> c:\ProgramFiles\PASWStatistics18\the path to the folder in this directory;
>   Also try NVDA with SPSS.  I have  found that   Jaws tends to be bit slower
> with SPSS and NVDA does not have this problem.
>
> Also i assume that you  installed the java accessibility bridge.
>
> Hope this  helps.
>
> R is certainly a very good option, but I have very little knowledge of the
> program. But fortunately there are members on this list who can guide you of
> how to get started with r.
>
> Regards,
> Faiz.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim in 't Veld"<tim at dvlop.nl>
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> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 3:16 PM
> Subject: [Blindmath] SPSS accessibility
>
>
> 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
>
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