[Athen] Jaws with SPSS

[PATRICK BURKE]

With apologies, I was wildly mistaken. That was the gist of some of my
conversations last summer, but apparently the rumors of SPSS's demise are
greatly exagerated. ... I don't have any info on when SPSS24 will be
released, but it's evidently still a very viable product.

Which means, it's worth our while to put in more effort with IBM to make
their stats tools really accessible.

Patrick

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Paul Chapin <pdchapin at amherst.edu> wrote:


> This isn't an accessibility question but do you have a source for idea

> that IBM isn't going to upgrade spss beyond 23?

>

> Sent from my iPhone

>

> On Mar 10, 2016, at 2:24 PM, PATRICK BURKE <burke at ucla.edu> wrote:

>

> I did some testing with a statistics specialist here at UCLA in summer

> 2015, & the results were very unsatisfactory. Jaws could track tabular data

> in some screens but not others. In particular, Jaws would report the type

> of output table being produced, but couldn't read the table itself. The

> Jaws-Java-SPSS combination crashed frequently.

>

> Word at the time was that IBM is not producing any new versions beyond

> SPSS 23.

>

> Patrick

>

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Joseph Sherman <Joseph.Sherman at cuny.edu>

> wrote:

>

>> IBM has a document on setting up SPSS for use with JAWS:

>>

>> IBM(r) SPSS(r) Statistics has been tested with JAWS. To enable JAWS and

>> other assistive technology products to work with IBM SPSS Statistics, you

>> need to complete the following steps. Note that the installer for IBM SPSS

>> Statistics provides an option for enabling JAWS. If you chose this option,

>> some steps were completed automatically during installation.

>>

>> Set the location of the Java Access Bridge. If you chose to enable JAWS

>> during installation, this step is not necessary.

>> Replace the Java accessibility.properties file. If you chose to enable

>> JAWS during installation, this step is not necessary.

>> For JAWS, copy the JAWS dictionary file from the Accessibility folder in

>> the IBM SPSS Statistics installation directory.

>>

>>

>> http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLVMB_23.0.0/spss/base/accessibility_windows.dita

>>

>>

>>

>> Joseph

>>

>> -----Original Message-----

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>> On Behalf Of Russell Solowoniuk

>> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 10:59 AM

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>> Subject: [Athen] Jaws with SPSS

>>

>> Hi all,

>>

>> Does anyone know if Jaws works well, or at all, with the stats program,

>> SPSS? If so, what version of Jaws?

>>

>> Thanks for any information on this.

>>

>> Best regards,

>>

>> Russell

>>

>> Russell Solowoniuk

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