[NFB-Science] Accessibility of MatLab with JAWS 2018

[Kennedy Stomberg]

This is super helpful! Thank you!  

Also, thank you to John, who sent me a document about successfuly using MATLAB. 

Kennedy Stomberg 
M.S. Program in Cognitive Neuroscience  
The Graduate Center, City University of New York  

365 5th Ave. New York, NY 10027  
Phone: (218)295--2391  

> On Sep 17, 2019, at 7:37 AM, Nikita via NFB-Science <nfb-science at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Kennedy.
> You need to do two things:
> 
> 1. Enable Java Access Bridge.
> You need to find the Java directory in the system directory MATLAB. There is
> a utility to enable Java Access Bridge.
> For Example: MATLAB\sys\java\jre\win32\jre\bin\jabswitch.exe
> Java Access Bridge starts via the command line using the key -enable:
> jabswitch.exe -enable
> if this happens, you will receive a response:
> "The Java Access Bridge has been enabled."
> 
> 2. Reassign the shortcuts of MATLAB.
> You need to create a file
> %APPDATA%\MathWorks\MATLAB\%version_of_MATLAB%\CustomWindowsSet.xml
> The file must be in UTF-8 without BOM
> It needs to have the following content:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <CustomKeySet derivedfrom="Windows" modifieddefault="false">
>    <Context id="Global">
>       <Action id="previous-history-item">
>          <Stroke code="VK_UP" ctrl="on" shift="on"/>
>          <Stroke code="VK_KP_UP" ctrl="on" shift="on"/>
>       </Action>
>       <Action id="next-history-item">
>          <Stroke code="VK_DOWN" ctrl="on" shift="on"/>
>          <Stroke code="VK_KP_DOWN" ctrl="on" shift="on"/>
>       </Action>
>    </Context>
>    <Context id="CommandWindow">
>       <Action id="caret-up"/>
>       <Action id="caret-down"/>
>    </Context>
> </CustomKeySet>
> 
> After that, you need to open the file
> %APPDATA%\MathWorks\MATLAB\%version_of_MATLAB%\matlab.prf
> At the end of this file you need to add the following two lines:
> 
> CustomKeyBindingSets=SCustomWindowsSet.xml
> CurrentKeyBindingSet=SCustomWindowsSet.xml
> 
> After all this theoretically, MATLAB should be accessible.
> I hope you will succeed. Good luck.
> 
> Sincerely, Nikita.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFB-Science <nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Kennedy
> Stomberg via NFB-Science
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> Subject: [NFB-Science] Accessibility of MatLab with JAWS 2018
> 
> 
> Good afternoon,  
> 
> For my Masters research, I am required to use MatLab for data analysis. I am
> currently using JAWS 2018 with Windows 10. Does anyone have any experience
> with  who can tell me if they have found it accessible? So far, I have not
> found MatLab to be accessible (at least, not the Desktop version.) Does
> anyone have experience with MatLab and JAWS? I'm hoping someone has found a
> work-around.  
> 
> Thank you,  
> Kennedy 
> Kennedy Stomberg 
> M.S. Program in Cognitive Neuroscience  
> The Graduate Center, City University of New York  
> 
> 365 5th Ave. New York, NY 10027  
> Phone: (218)295--2391  
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