I would guess that you could get them from the author (try googling on SPSS JAWS, etc.) and you'll probably find them. If not write an email to Eric Damery ([email protected]) and he will point you in the right direction.
cdh On Aug 27, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Any idea where we can get these scripts for spss? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Hofstader > Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 1:34 a.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Statistics packages > > > Hi, > > The "industry standard" for statics packages is SSPS and I do not know > if there is a Macintosh version. Peter Orem (probably misspelled) in > the UK wrote a set of JAWS scripts and tends to keep them up to date > so he and other blinks can use the program. > > Math in general is a very touchy subject around people with vision > impairment. LaTeX is an excellent notation system but was designed to > generate nicely formatted print output. Knuth (now a professor at > Stanford who hates being bothered), authored of TeX and LaTex and, in > one of his fairly rare public statements expressed near shock that > people were using the tools to actually manipulate equations. > > I would recommend the Nimith (also likely misspelled) or DotsPlus > (John Gardner of ViewPlus) Braille systems for math. Both were > designed from the ground up to be used by blind people (Nimith and > Gardner are both blind) and both take up less very expensive real > estate on a refreshable display. You can contact Gardner personally > at ViewPlus, I think Abe Nimith is long retired and probably hard to > find. > > The basic differences in the systems is that Gardner uses an 8 dot > output and Nimith, being much older, uses only the original 6 dots. > While Gardner can fit more information in a single, thus furthering > the efficiency of those expensive cells, it is far less widely known > so, if you encounter other blinks, they will be more likely to know > Nimith than any of the eight or nine other systems, including Gardner, > out there for math. If you live in Australia, though, you will find a > whole lot of DotsPlus users doing math with Braille - I've no clue why > people down under embraced that system over the others except that, to > many people, it is thought to be superior and because fewer cells so a > smaller Braille display will work decently. > > Once again, I don't know if SSPS has a version for Macintosh nor do I > know if the Macintosh Braille output can jump in and out of different > translation tables (does anyone here switch from English to another > human language and back using Braille?). There are other math > packages: Mathematica, MathCAD for instance, that may have Macintosh > versions but I know not if they support jumping in and out of the > tactile systems like Nimith and DotsPlus. > > Ted Henter is actively working on his HenterMath program again but it > will definitely not be done in time for your coursework this fall. > > I think that both Freedom Scientific and Humanware have low cost > Nimith tutorials for PAC Mate and BrailleNote respectively. I've > never used either so I can't not give a first hand endorsement but > the one from FS grew out of the very popular Nimith tutorial sold (or > was it given away) by Blazie back in the old days. > > I know of lots of people working on various aspects of handling math > without vision. You might look up Art Carshmer, a professor at UC San > Francisco, for whom math for blinks has been nearly his entire > research career. There are others out there and, if you are > interested, write to me off list and I can help you with introductions > and such as the information above is nearly 100% of what I can recall > about this subject on my first cup of coffee. > > Happy Hacking, > cdh > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
