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Doing statistics with a screen reader (self.Blind)
submitted by CosmicBunny97
So I started uni back in 2017 doing psychology. I’ve jumped around with degrees, and took a break last year due to eye surgery. I now have really limited vision and use VouceOver on my Mac and other Apple products. I’m thinking of going back to uni and finishing my psychology degree, but unsure if I’ll be able to do the statistics side of things. Has anyone done statistics and can tell me what it’s like? Thanks :)
AndAdapt 2 points 2y ago
You could always use R for the stats. But, I believe SPSS does work with screen readers.
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
Get as much of it as you can in tactiles and graphics don’t use just computers. Do it in person ask for a traditional class and get yourself a ti-Orion84
CosmicBunny97 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
It’s an online uni, so unfortunately this isn’t applicable, but thank you
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
Interesting unless they can mail and get you this stuff somehow but I see....
supanut2000 1 points 2y ago
From someone who has gone through one bachelors degree already, I would say, going back to university should not be too much problem, but you need to make sure that your disability support service is able to convert class materials into accessible format for you. Personally when I took statistics class I am using NVDA along with math player and math type, since I run windows, so I don’t know how well VoiceOver can handle statistics stuff.
I think psychology is not a very resource intensive field, since I think it mostly involves reading and stuff. My first bachelors degree was kind of resource intensive since it involves math, accounting, finance and economics (I did a BBA in international business for my first bachelors degree BTW).
CosmicBunny97 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
I’ve swapped uni degrees like 3 times, it’s either get something done or drop out entirely.... 😬 Aside from NVDA, what are the other programs?
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
I’ve changed majors like 4 times and may switch again.
CosmicBunny97 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
I’ve finally settled on business instead of doing psych, but my uni offers a major in psych. What have your majors been?
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
Psych, philosophy, english, journalism, political science, and now thinking of going in to assistive tech.
supanut2000 1 points 2y ago
Well, on my iPhone I use the built-in VoiceOver for screen reader.
But when it comes to doing university work I mainly use my laptop of course. I also use Microsoft office BTW.
CosmicBunny97 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Yeah, I haven’t run into any issues with Microsoft Word on a Mac yet, thankfully :)
supanut2000 1 points 2y ago
I see
Before, I used to use jaws but switched over to NVDA once I got my new desktop, which comes with windows 10 (though I have been using NVDA on my laptop for sometime already).
annibear 1 points 2y ago
I work as an analyst at a big tech company and use VoiceOver. I would learn R. SPSS is supposed to be doable but I've heard mixed things about accessibility. I think your best bet if you have to create/interpret/read graphs is going to be R imo--it gives you more or less complete control without having to see anything.
CosmicBunny97 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Interesting. If I do go back to uni, I’ll have to see if that’s okay to use another program.
zersiax 1 points 2y ago
My knowledge is a couple years out of date but I do remember that at the time I heard that people were using SPSS, although I did hear somewhat older versions worked better with a screenreader. I don't know if that has been fixed in the mean time, and my knowledge is about the Windows version, so not sure about the mac.

Python is a good general purpose programming language to pick up if that interests you at all, and I bring it up because it has libraries to parse large amounts of data and perform statistical calculations and analyses on that data.

If programming's not really y your thing but you're willing to learn syntax, R is specifically meant to do statistics and can be run from a commandline, is therefore accessible. Let's use R Now (LURN) is a good introductory guide on the topic.
Envrin 1 points 2y ago
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I sometimes work with big data, so I think that's probably kind of statistics? I don't know...

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I'd suggest teaching yourself some Python though. It's a pretty easy language to get the hang of, and is excellent for things such as statistics, machine learning, big data, et al.
CosmicBunny97 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Interesting. From experience, psychology statistics uses graphs and ANOVA tables, stuff like that. I’ll probably learn basic Python stuff for the hell of it though, thanks :)
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