[Athen] JAWS scripts for SPSS

Saroj Primlani saroj_primlani at ncsu.edu
Thu Nov 15 12:21:00 PST 2007


JAWS comes with scripts for SPSS
Saroj


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Today's Topics:

1. "Microsoft makes documents accessible to the visually
impaired" Gosh, really?! (Robert Martinengo)
2. JAWS Scripts for SPSS (Crabb, Nolan)
3. Re: JAWS Scripts for SPSS (Travis Roth)
4. contentDM and jaws (gdausch at notes.cc.sunysb.edu)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:45:14 -0500
From: "Robert Martinengo" <accessible.text at gmail.com>
Subject: [Athen] "Microsoft makes documents accessible to the visually
impaired" Gosh, really?!
To: "Access Technologists in Higher Education Network"
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Take a look at this to see how the 'save as DAISY' story is getting spun in
the real world - "It revolutionises information and consumption"? Oh,
please. Folks, its just a plugin!

http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/2203477/microsoft-makes-documents

A new plugin will enable Microsoft Word
<http://www.microsoft.com/enable/>users to save Open
XML <http://www.openxmlcommunity.org/>-based documents in a format that
makes the content accessible to blind or visually impaired users.

The
plugin<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/nov07/11-13daisy.msp
x>,
which is a free
download<http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/2203477/microsoft-makes-documents
#>,
will make it possible to save documents in the DAISY XML format, a standard
for reading and publishing multimedia content that is easy to navigate.

"It revolutionises information and consumption," said Julie Howell, director
of accessibility at Fortune Cookie, a web accessibility provider. "Currently
to get through a massive amount of linear audio is like reading the Yellow
Pages from start to finish to find what you're looking for."

Howell said the key to making DAISY a success was to raise public awareness
of the standard: "To use DAISY, you need a DAISY player.The next step to
ensure that the largest number of people benefit from it is to get the
DAISY-playing technology onto products available on the high street."
Although the DAISY format was sometimes used in school textbooks, she said,
the majority of visually-impaired people lost their sight after the age of
45, and they also needed to be able to access documents in DAISY format.

Visually-impaired users can access web-based information through screen
readers, screen magnifiers, Braille printers and text-to-speech
synthesizers. But it is much harder for users to navigate complex page
layouts because accessibility tools are usually unable to differentiate
between different elements of the text, such as headings, tables of
contents, indices and glossaries. For the visually impaired user, the text
becomes an undifferentiated mess.

The DAISY standard addresses this by making it possible to navigate through
documents by heading or page number and to use indexes and references. This
means that users can scroll through audio or Braille content in the same way
that sighted people might scroll through a document.

"It will make it much easier for someone to produce their document in audio
or Braille or large print. You save in DAISY format, and there are a number
of tools that will pick that file up and create well-structured, good,
navigable documents," said Stephen King, director of accessibility and
innovation at the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB). Currently
only five percent of the material available to sighted readers has been
converted into accessible formats, according to RNIB research.

The "Save as DAISY" plugin will be available as a free download for
Microsoft<http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/2203477/microsoft-makes-document
s#>Office
Word (Word XP, Word 2003 and Word 2007) customers early in 2008.

King said he thought the standard would be widely used, because it was now a
legal requirement in the US for school textbook publishers to provide copies
of books in DAISY format. The ability to convert to DAISY format would have
wider uses, he added: "The DAISY format is good for any repurposing [of
text]. People are repurposing for mobile phones and different types of
presentation, and the DAISY standard has been designed for that."
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:21:51 -0500
From: "Crabb, Nolan" <Crabb.15 at osu.edu>
Subject: [Athen] JAWS Scripts for SPSS
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Hi, everyone,

The subject line almost says it all. :-) I'm in need of some JAWS
scripts for SPSS. The version of JAWS currently in use by our grad
student is 8.2173. I suppose I'll write these myself if I absolutely
have to, but it would be silly to do that if someone else already has
them available. Let me know if you or someone you know has some you'd
be willing to share.

Regards,

Nolan



Nolan Crabb
Director of Assistive Technology
The Ohio State University
2054 Drake Center, 1849 Cannon Dr., Columbus, OH 43210

Ph. (614) 735-8688
E-mail: crabb.15 at osu.edu





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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:28:09 -0600
From: "Travis Roth" <travis at travisroth.com>
Subject: Re: [Athen] JAWS Scripts for SPSS
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Hi,
Doing a Google search I founda couple of links.
Freedom Scientific has a KB article here about some older-looking scripts:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_support/BulletinView.cfm?QC=426


Also SSb Bart Group appears to be selling something.
http://www.ssbtechnologies.com/products/jaws/index.html

Hope this helps.

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Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:22 AM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network
Subject: [Athen] JAWS Scripts for SPSS

Hi, everyone,

The subject line almost says it all. :-) I'm in need of some JAWS
scripts for SPSS. The version of JAWS currently in use by our grad
student is 8.2173. I suppose I'll write these myself if I absolutely
have to, but it would be silly to do that if someone else already has
them available. Let me know if you or someone you know has some you'd
be willing to share.

Regards,

Nolan



Nolan Crabb
Director of Assistive Technology
The Ohio State University
2054 Drake Center, 1849 Cannon Dr., Columbus, OH 43210

Ph. (614) 735-8688
E-mail: crabb.15 at osu.edu



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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:43:04 -0500
From: gdausch at notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Subject: [Athen] contentDM and jaws
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Hello,
Does anyone have tips on using the contentDM acquisition station with
jaws? jaws doesn't seem to be able to read input fields, and Clicking on
objects with the jaws cursor does nothing.
Thanks,

Glenn
Glenn Dausch
Disability Support Services
128 Educational Communications Center
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2662
631 632 6548
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