Dan: I am a professional statistician so I've been using various statistical packages for years. The SAS package works quite well with JAWS. It is a windowed environment with lots of key stroke shortcuts. The output tends to come backas plain text files with lots of white space. I often find myself routing output to a CSV file and loading it into Excel for easier navigation. The real drawback with SAS is that, as a commercial package, it is expensive. If you don't have access to it through a corporation or university, it is probably out of reach. There is a good open source package called R which you can download for free from http://r-project.org. It's main drawback is that there is more of a learning curve to using it. Also, output comes back in the same window you type commands. I have to use the JAWS cursor to read the output. Again, you can also easily route output to CSV files for use in Excel or other programs. Finally, Excel itself has a lot of statistical functionality. It has functions to give you most standard univariate measures and a lot of bivariate ones. It is the most easily accessible of the three packages. If you have any question, feel free to post them here.
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 7:03 PM PST Dan Rossi wrote: >Does anyone have first hand knowledge of a statistics package that is >accessible with any of the screen readers? > >Thanks. > > >-- Blue skies. >Dan Rossi >Carnegie Mellon University. >E-Mail: [email protected] >Tel: (412) 268-9081 > >For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
