Almost 20 years ago my son was in the DO-IT program at the University of
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They have been solving problems such as yours and I suspect can suggest
several workable solutions.
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On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, Liz Hare wrote:
Hi Courtney and John,
The RStudio environment mentioned below will not work with speech output (I
tried with Window-Eyes awhile ago). Some of my clients use it but I have no
experience with it. Since the student is partially sighted, they might be able
to customize the environment with big fonts and contrast, I’m just not sure.
Using a screen reader like Window-Eyes, the student could use the R GUI
environment, although it’s a little frustrating because it doesn’t speak a lot
and you need to use the mouse keys a lot.
The other option if you have to stick with Windows is to run R at the command
prompt, which makes interaction slightly easier but you’d have to figure out
how to log the output.
What is being recommended for the rest of the students in the class? Ideally,
this student’s experience should be as close as possible to the others’.
Liz
On Jun 18, 2015, at 12:17 PM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Courtney Bryant <cbry...@andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:
Good Morning,
I am currently working with a disabled R user who is a student here at
CMU. The student has both sight and mobility issues. The student has
asked for an assistant who is well versed in R to enter data for her, which
we are having a hard time finding. I would like information from R
developers/users about how/how well R interfaces with Excel (an easier
skill set to find!) In your opinion, could it be as easy as uploading
data from excel into R?
Also, do you know of a way to enlarge the R interface or otherwise assist
in making the program accessible to a low vision person? My limited
understanding leads me to believe that screen magnifiers like zoom text
don't work particularly well. If you have information on that, I would
very much appreciate it.
Thanks for your help and for bearing with me!
Courtney
I am a bit confused (a normal condition for me). Is the student writing R
code or is the student running a application written in R? Also, since you
mentioned Excel, I am assuming that the student is using a PC running
Windows as opposed to Linux or a Mac.
If the student is writing R code, then I'd suggest that your computer
support person install Rstudio. It is cost free and can be downloaded here:
http://www.rstudio.com/ . The installer can then customize Rstudio to use a
really large font, if that would be helpful. Please forgive my lack of
knowledge about accessibility issues. If the student has trouble typing
(mobility issue?), this likely won't help. Would a speech to text / text to
speech interface help instead of a screen magnifier? I know next to nothing
about these tools, other than that they exist.
===
If the student is running an R application (which is what "enter data for
her" implies to me), then any accessibility issues would need to be
addressed in the application itself. But I don't understand why a "data
entry" assistant would need any skills in R itself in order to enter data
into it. But without knowing more, that's about all that I can say. One
thought: CMU has a college teaching "electrical and computer engineering".
Depending on what that means, perhaps someone from that college (professor,
TA, or grad student) could see what your student is doing and perhaps have
some insights on how to help. Or is there a "computer club" on campus where
some geeky student might be found? You might look here:
http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/ If these are true geeks (and the web site
sounds promising), then a lure of beer & pizza would likely be irresistible
<grin>.
===
For interfacing R with Excel, you might want to look at RExcel here:
http://rcom.univie.ac.at/download.html#RExcel . It has a free student
version. But is this more for an Excel user who wants to use R for
analysis, not an R user wanting to use Excel for "data entry".
--
Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be.
My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells down by the
seashore.
If someone tell you that nothing is impossible:
Ask him to dribble a football.
He's about as useful as a wax frying pan.
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Maranatha! <><
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