Hi leo I am very thankful to u for valuable suggestion u shared & posted hear for me It was very informative Thanks once again On 8/4/12, Dr.Leo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >
-- in regards Shreyas Nagaraj Reddy For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
