Hi Shreyas,
Shreyas N Reddy wrote:
hi all
hope all r fine
As I introduced previously that I Am Shreyas & from country: India I have
problems with graphs & tables I don't know how to use the Excel but if there
is any software which is only meant for blind users to access & draw graphs/
tables, it would be very nice & helpful for me I use these in economics &
business studies. So, that's the problem & tables in accounts.
Please help me members
I look forward to get reply from u experts
I am unaware of any such software specifically for the blind. I use MS
Excel 2007 with a current Jaws version and it works smoothly so long as
I don't use graphs. So I manage to analyze various kinds of data. Graphs
are generally for the sighted. That said, you can create diagrams with
Excel, too, without seeing them. However, I don't feel comfortable doing
this alone. I rather try to get sighted help to check if my diagrams
look meaningful.
A far more powerful approach to tables and statistics are commercial
packages such as SAS, SPSS, statistica etc. A blind colleague of mine
works successfully with SAS, I think. Then tere is R, an open source
statistics software system, but on Windows it is not accessible and has
a relatively steep learning curv.
I personally prefer the Python programming language with some scientific
software on top such as numpy, scipy, pandas (for data analysis) and
statsmodels (for sophisticated statistical analysis). iPython is a
powerful environment to use all this. Diagrams can be drawn with
matplotlib. All this is open source. But again, it might be difficult to
use diagrams confidently without sighted help. And Python is a
programming language that you'd have to learn, although I think your
time would be extremely well spent. But before dropping Excel, think of
the benefits it provides you simply by using the same software as your
class mates.
Leo
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