<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Jeff,<br><br></div>We have also been looking into the stats world (& thank you Teresa for your assistance!)<br><br></div>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:<br><a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=BrailleR">https://cran.r-project.org/package=BrailleR</a><br><br></div>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.<br><br></div>I hate to promise, but we will be looking at Stata as a possible solution, hopefully next week.<br><br></div>Patrick<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Bishop, Jeff - (jeffbis) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeffbis@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank">jeffbis@email.arizona.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Teresa,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list [mailto:<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Teresa Haven<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 19, 2015 10:03 AM<br><b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] SPSS Version 22 access with JAWS Version 16<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Sorry to not have better results to report,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Teresa<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1f497d">Teresa Haven, Ph.D.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1f497d">Accessibility Analyst, Northern Arizona University<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> athen-list [mailto:<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bishop, Jeff - (jeffbis)<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 19, 2015 9:50 AM<br><b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network<br><b>Subject:</b> [Athen] SPSS Version 22 access with JAWS Version 16<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hello Everyone,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Jeff<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></font></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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