[nabs-l] Help Needed with Compiling Statistics Reference Guide

[Arielle Silverman]

Hello all,
While I was at this year's NFB convention in Dallas, I met with a
couple other NABS members and we would like to begin the process of
starting an NFB interest group for blind social scientists and
researchers. A goal of this group is to make statistics and data
analysis more accessible and friendly to the blind. Toward this end, I
will be compiling an electronic resource for blind students taking
statistics courses, as well as blind researchers who conduct data
analysis as part of their jobs. As you know, questions often come up
on this list about how to access a statistics course or how to use
specific software applications, and I would like to bring the answers
to these questions into one place that's readily available to students
and researchers. Once the guide is completed, I intend to share it
with this list and with the NABS board so it can be disseminated to as
many students as possible.
To create this reference guide, I will be compiling articles that
explain how to conduct the most common statistical tests using various
software applications and screen readers. Specifically, I am looking
for contributions from anyone who has successfully used SPSS, R, or
Stata with JAWS; as well as anyone who has successfully analyzed data
using VoiceOver, NVDA, or System Access screen readers.
In your article, it would be most helpful if you can describe any
workarounds you used to make the program accessible, such as importing
data from Excel; whether you used menus within the program or typed in
syntax; and if you used syntax, please give a few examples of syntax
you used.
Feel free to send me your article in bullet-point form and I will turn
it into a full-length article, or give me the information over the
phone by calling
602-502-2255

My goal is to complete this project before I go back to school (and
start my own stats course) on August 27, so please send me your
contributions by August 15. My email is
arielle71 at gmail.com

Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Best,
Arielle