[Athen] Stats and screen readers

[Schwarte, David M.]

Ron,

I have had the "opportunity" to work with JAWS and SAS.  SAS does not
work well with JAWS out-of-the-box and I have not found any JAWS
scripts.  Basically, there are six to eight child windows in the SAS
main window that do different things.  Different child windows require
different JAWS settings to interact with different window types.  For
example, read-only windows like the Results and Log windows need to be
read with the JAWS cursor and the PC cursor.  I wrote a very basic set
of JAWS scripts that makes changing the settings a bit faster.  I have
worked with two students who have successfully used SAS for classes:
however, they both would much rather use SPSS with the scripts included
with JAWS.  I can easily ask questions of one of the above students.  If
you have specific questions I would be happy to pass them along.  

David Schwarte


-----Original Message-----
From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Ron Stewart
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:44 AM
To: 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'
Subject: Re: [Athen] Stats and screen readers

Thanks that is good info, 

Now how about screen readers especially those of you who are doing grad
level work and have to use them with these products.

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Sheila Kieran-Greenbush
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:12 AM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] Stats and screen readers

Ron


I used Dragon naturally speaking with all the versions of SPSS up to 
version 13. It was a little cumbersome but it definitely worked.


Sckg

Ron Stewart wrote:

>

> Howdy all, I need your advice. Can anyone give me an update on the 

> current state of the various stats packages such as SPSS, SAS, Minitab



> ect as far as working with the various screen readers versions.

>

> Thanks much,

>

> Ron

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