Re: a last ditched effort with JAWS and SPSS
- From: "Danny Wells" <dd-wells@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:51:03 -0400
As Patricia said, it is a statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS),
which dates back to the days of DOS. I used it some in my graduate school days
in political science but that was ages ago. Its primary use is bivariate and
multivariate regression and causile modelling. I have not used it in a Windows
environment, since my interests in political science is in philosophy and the
history of political philosophy.
Danny
----- Original Message -----
From: Patricia
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: a last ditched effort with JAWS and SPSS
I don't know much more beyond the fact that it is a statistical database for
the Social Sciences. I'm not sure if there are different titles for other
databases.
----- Original Message -----
From: John Ramsey
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:59 PM
Subject: RE: a last ditched effort with JAWS and SPSS
Hello Patricia,
What is the name of the SPSS database; I don't remember anything beyond the
initials. I wish I knew someone who was using it with JFW. I will ask around.
Take care,
John
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Patricia
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 12:56 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: a last ditched effort with JAWS and SPSS
yes, it is.
----- Original Message -----
From: John Ramsey
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:48 PM
Subject: RE: a last ditched effort with JAWS and SPSS
Hello Patricia,
I am very sorry that you are having this problem. Is SPSS the Statistics
data base for social sciences? I have not used it with JFW but did need it for
a course back in my undergrad days.
Take care,
John
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Patricia
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:42 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: a last ditched effort with JAWS and SPSS
Hi all:
Now I am working with SPSS and finding it extremely difficult to say the
least. I've been told by sighted people that it looks really similar to Excel,
but as I am navigating through supposed cells all JAWS says is "no variable in
this position" even if there is a variable present. yet, as I input data i can
get jaws to read it to me with a say line. I had asked about the accessibility
before, and didn't get very encouraging responses. I just thought I'd check
again before giving up. this is a frustrating matter that's for sure. Reference
Manager was just as bad. I am using JAWS 7.1, SPSS version 14.0, and yes, the
scripts are from 1999 but they haven't seemed to help me much. I will try again
in the coming weeks. yes, weeks. 4 looooong weeks of SPSS. I'm going to check
on the web to see if there's anything i can find regarding the issue, but I
thought I'd see if anyone has any solutions first, or if I should just label
this program, along with Reference Manager, as inaccessible for blind and
visually impaired JAWS users.
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