Many software developers sacrificed accessibility when they moved from the DOS environment to Windows.

But in recent years there has been a lot of remediation with respect to accessibility, in particular as vendors sought compliance with Section 508 requirements applicable to U.S. Government procurement.

SPSS claims to be committed to Section 508 compliance. See http://www.spss.com/vertical_markets/government/section_508.htm. I find that page long on expression of good intentions and short on specifics, but it may be worth looking at the latest SPSS release to see what it delivers.

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:53:09 -0800, Bill <wjbowers@COMCAST.NET> wrote:

>Do you have a copy of SPSS 6.1.4 or know someone who does or might? . >I am a visually impaired (legally blind) long time user of SPSS 6.1.4 >in conjunction with Word/perfect 5.1 for DOS. My SPSS 6.1.4 got >corrupted and I now find that the seventh installation disk will not >read. In response to a call, the SPSS folks said they have no >replacement disks for 6.1.4 they could send me. > >SPSS 6.1.4 gives me output when downloaded to Note Pad that is >formatted so that I can easily consolidate rows of data (usually >percentages) from a series of tables (crosstabs) into a single >tabulation which contains the figures that present the results I am >interested in showing. I can handily move columns when I need to in WP >5.1. > Value labels are lined up on the same rows as the percentages. I can >delete unwanted rows without throwing the column alignment off. At >some point in the updating of SPSS, this formatting of the output was >changed. I would like to know at what version of SPSS >that occured, so that my search for a replacement for my corrupted SPSS >6.1.4 can be as wide as possible. Thanks for whatever help you can >give me. > >Bill