[Athen] SPSS Version 22 access with JAWS Version 16

Bishop, Jeff - (jeffbis) jeffbis at email.arizona.edu
Wed Aug 19 11:26:35 PDT 2015


Teresa,



Do you know if any other alternatives were explored on other platforms (iOS
apps, Mac solutions, Windows applications, etc.)? I am just trying to get a
feel for what we may be able to offer the student.



From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On
Behalf Of Teresa Haven
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 10:03 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Athen] SPSS Version 22 access with JAWS Version 16



Hi, Jeff. We explored SPSS 22 and JAWS (multiple versions - 14, 15, and 16)
last academic year. We could technically get it working, but it was highly
unstable even on a high-powered machine, and would never consistently work
with JAWS through a single work session. There didn't seem to be any one
trigger for collapse, but at some random point in every work session, JAWS
would simply stop talking in SPSS, although it would continue to function
otherwise, and the only solution would be to exit SPSS, reboot the computer,
and start over, which wasn't productive. Our major testers were a faculty
member/Ph.D. student who uses JAWS on a regular basis and his statistics
professor, who is interested in improving the accessibility of his courses,
in the context of a graduate-level statistics course, so the software
combination got a lot of testing by experienced end users. We're hoping IBM
will continue to work on the issue and make more strides in improving the
accessibility of the product.



Sorry to not have better results to report,

Teresa



Teresa Haven, Ph.D.

Accessibility Analyst, Northern Arizona University







From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On
Behalf Of Bishop, Jeff - (jeffbis)
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 9:50 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: [Athen] SPSS Version 22 access with JAWS Version 16



Hello Everyone,



We have a student that will be enrolling in a statistics course this fall.
They will be utilizing SPSS version 22. I know from looking at IBM's
documentation that it is possible to get it set up using the Java Access
Bridge. Does anyone here have experience with this and once configured how
accessible SPSS is with JAWS? Has anyone also explored other options running
in iOS or on the Mac for this type of application?



Jeff



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