[Athen] SPSS Version 22 access with JAWS Version 16

[PATRICK BURKE]

Hi Jeff,

We have also been looking into the stats world (& thank you Teresa for your
assistance!)

The main accessible stats package (with severl very strong advocates,
anyway) is R. (Use R in Terminal Mode.) There is a BrailleR extension to
produce automated text summaries of bar charts, etc:
https://cran.r-project.org/package=BrailleR

However, according to my stats expert colleagues, R is almost totally
unlike SPSS in its design, with an extremely steep learning curve. So R was
not a feasible replacement for SPSS for us recently.

I hate to promise, but we will be looking at Stata as a possible solution,
hopefully next week.

Patrick

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Bishop, Jeff - (jeffbis) <
jeffbis at email.arizona.edu> wrote:


> Teresa,

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> 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.

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> *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

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> 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.

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> Sorry to not have better results to report,

>

> Teresa

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> Teresa Haven, Ph.D.

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> Accessibility Analyst, Northern Arizona University

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> *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

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>

>

> Hello Everyone,

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> 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?

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> Jeff

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