i want to know the work of this soft ware
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janardhana Naidu" <jnga...@gmail.com>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: [AI] Accessibility testing of SPSS version 16.0.
hello prasanth Sir,
Thanks for enlightening us accessbility of SPSS version 16 with JAWS
12. Really it is an urgent issue to solve with regard to higher
education of persons with visual impairment. Are there any scripts
and tutorials for using SPSS 16th version or loyer with Jaws 11?
With best wishes for your efforts,
Janardhana Naidu.
On 1/31/11, Prashant Naik <pran...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear friends,
I am sharing my few findings on SPSS stats program. I did this
accessibility testing at XRCVC to explore this program. Many of our
students are pursing higher education and they need to use this stats
program. If you can recollect, few days back I asked AI list question
with regard to stats programs SPSS, SAS and Minitab accessibility.
Please give me your comments / feedback. Also correct my findings if
you already have good experience of SPSS with JAWS. - Prashant Naik
Accessibility testing of SPSS version 16.0.
At XRCVC I tried basic operational testing of SPSS (an internationally
well known program, designed to deal with data management and
statistical analysis) with JAWS screen reader version12.0.522.
Following are my findings:
To make SPSS accessible and work with JAWS.
• SPSS 16 is JAVA based application so to make it accessible you need
to install Java Access Bridge. You can read JAWS help to know more
about installing Java and Java Access Bridge.
Then configure your Java Access Bridge as given below
• Need to do copy paste of files.
• Go to the following folder and copy all files
C:\Program Files\Java Access Bridge\installerFiles
• Now you need to locate the Lib folder within SPSS (or any other
application) to paste all those files you copied in the previous step.
C:\Program Files\Application Name\lib
• In the following URL, they also tell you to modify Environment
Variables to indicate the location of the application,
https://docs.rice.edu/confluence/display/ITTUT/Screen+reading+software+(JAWS)+for+SPSS+set+up+instructions
• It seems that original product CD of SPSS comes with Accessibility
folder from where you can copy accessibility.properties file to SPSS
lib folder.
• Follow the steps outlined in SPSS help of how to use it with screen
readers.
• Contact SPSS support through their website for further help.
• Also for older version of SPSS there are JAWS scripts available
which one can find from online lists and can download from freedom
scientific visit the link
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_support/BulletinView.asp?QC=426
Problems
• You can access all the menus and read dialogue boxes.
• The menus are read properly by JAWS
• We can say that many features of SPSS can be accessed through JAWS,
features such as the data entry grid, the menus, and large parts of
the dialogue boxes.
• However, you cannot read the SPSS output window. In the output
window you can review tables.
• The solution is to export it into any format of choice. The available
• Options are rtf, txt, pdf, excel and so on where the column and row
headings are announced for each single cell, making scanning of tables
easier than in the SPSS format.
• Graphs, 3Ds are not JAWS readable.
Conclusion
There are few issues with regard to accessibility of SPSS but I found
that a basic data analysis operation is possible for a blind user. Of
course he / she needs a good training on SPSS and should be able to do
workaround with JAWS to get the work done. Also I would like to state
that I have tried it on a very basic level stats operations but if we
need to explore SPSS with many of its functionalities / options and
then test its accessibility, we need an expert user of SPSS to work.
Prepared by
Prashant Naik
XRCVC
Date – January 31, 2011
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