[Nfb-science] matlab accessibility

[Amy Bower]

Dear Justin:

I am a long-time user of matlab with accessibility software, including Jaws,
Magic and Zoomtext.  I must say it has never been simple but that I have
used Matlab successfully with the above software. At the moment, I'm using
Jaws 14 and Magic 12 with Matlab 2012b with Windows 7 64- and 32-bit
operating systems (one desktop and one laptop). It works okay, but not
great. In particular, there is a problem with where the cursor is and what
Jaws reads (two different things), making it impossible to write code in the
Matlab Editor without some vision (which I still have).

I have found a technical note on Matlab accessibility, but haven't looked
into it in great depth. There might be some help here, but my computer
techie and I haven't had time to dig deep into this yet.

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/323327

I recently brought the issue to the attention of the Freedom Scientific
folks, and I think I have gotten their attention. I've been contacted by a
software tester there and hope this will lead somewhere.

Feel free to contact me offline at abower at whoi.edu if you want to discuss in
more detail.

Ciao,
Amy 

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Dear List,
                I am a student at the Louisiana Center for the Blind, and I
am going to be entering a PhD program in Agricultural & Applied Economics in
the fall.  I I am doing a project right now where I am evaluating three
statistical packages and their accessibility: MatLab, SAS, and R.  I have
found a good bit of accessibility information for R and SAS, and I am trying
to obtain all three of them.
                The reason that I am writing to this list is to ask if
anyone knows where I can find accessibility reviews for MatLab.  Does
anyone?  If not, what information can you give me from your own experience?
                This information that I collect will ultimately go into a
PowerPoint presentation comparing these three packages.

Thank you in advance.

Justin Salisbury


Justin M. Salisbury
B.A. in Mathematics
Class of 2012
East Carolina University
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