[Athen] question on Jaws and Stats software

Gaeir Dietrich gdietrich at htctu.net
Thu Feb 17 18:47:45 PST 2011


Check out R-Project for Statistics. It is accessible with JAWS.

http://www.r-project.org/

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Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich
High Tech Center Training Unit of the
California Community Colleges
De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
<http://www.htctu.net/> www.htctu.net
408-996-6043

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From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Linda Petty
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 12:31 PM
To: athen at athenpro.org
Subject: [Athen] question on Jaws and Stats software



Cross posting on behalf of Queens- pls cc a response directly to: email
Andrew at ashby at queensu.ca

Linda S. Petty, O.T. Reg. (ON)

Assistive Technology Consultant

University of Toronto Scarborough

ACCESSAbility Services

1265 Military Trail, Room SW302G

Toronto ON M1C 1A4

PH:416-208-5144

Fax: 416-287-7334

www.utsc.utoronto.ca/ability/

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



To reply privately, email Andrew at ashby at queensu.ca









Linda S. Petty, O.T. Reg. (ON)

Assistive Technology Consultant

University of Toronto Scarborough

ACCESSAbility Services

1265 Military Trail, Room SW302G

Toronto ON M1C 1A4

PH:416-208-5144

Fax: 416-287-7334

www.utsc.utoronto.ca/ability/



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