[Athen] SPSS Version 22 access with JAWS Version 16

[Bishop, Jeff - (jeffbis)]

I would love to hear your findings. Thanks so much.

 

From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of PATRICK BURKE
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 11:58 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 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 <mailto:jeffbis at email.arizona.edu> > wrote:

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 <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 <mailto: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 <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

 


_______________________________________________
athen-list mailing list
athen-list at mailman13.u.washington.edu <mailto:athen-list at mailman13.u.washington.edu> 
http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/attachments/20150819/b8394a8b/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 5716 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/attachments/20150819/b8394a8b/attachment.p7s>