[Athen] Jaws and Stats software

[Linda Petty]

Cross posting on behalf of Queens- pls cc a response directly to: email Andrew at ashby at queensu.ca<mailto:ashby at queensu.ca>
Linda S. Petty, O.T. Reg. (ON)
Assistive Technology Consultant
University of Toronto Scarborough
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Posted on behalf of Andrew Ashby, Assistive Technologist at Queen's:



Please excuse cross-postings; we didn't want to miss anyone who might have a solution to this...  Thanks!



Hi all,



I've come across the situation where a student who is blind is taking a statistics course requiring the use of stats software to crunch data and create graphs for analysis. The student is a Jaws user but the stats software being used is PASW version 18 (formerly known as SPSS).



Our AT Lab has Jaws version 12 and PASW v18 and in testing them together I found that Jaws isn't usable with PASW since it seems to be programmed in Java. I thought I found a solution for this online where you create a Java Access Bridge

(???) in Jaws but it doesn't seem to work with Jaws v12. I tried statistical software called 'R', but it too doesn't seem to work well with Jaws.



So my question is has anyone come across this sort of situation before? If so, what solution did you use? Is there statistics software out there compatible with Jaws v12?



The only solution I can see right now is trying to use MS Excel. Jaws v12 now has a "virtual ribbon" that makes the ribbon menu in Office 2007/2010 more accessible.



Any thoughts or solutions would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks,



Andrew Ashby - AT Queen's University



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