Hayes' Text Accessibility Analysis Software

• About the software
• Requirements:
  • Perl, which runs on most any computer and operating system made since 1996 or so.
  • Several megabytes of memory.
  • Several megabytes of disk space.
  • Optional: gnuplot or Excel for viewing graphs of the result.
• Obtaining and installing for Windows users:
  Download:
  • The zip file containing the software: qanalyze.zip
  • ActiveState Perl for Windows
  • If you do not already have PKUNZIP or WinZIP or an equivalent un-zipping program, you can use unzip.exe.
  Then:
  • unzip the qanalyze.zip file into a directory of your choosing (for example, c:\qanalyze ). If you are using unzip.exe, use the command 'unzip qanalyze.zip' to unzip the qanalyze.zip file, for example. Be sure the irs1040.txt file ends up in the texts directory or you will have to change the instructions below to suit.
  • Install the Perl.
  • Invoke using a command like 'perl qanalyze texts\irs1040.txt'
• Obtaining and installing For UN*X/Linux users:
  
  • Download the zip archive containing the program: qanalyze.zip
  • If needed, install perl. If desired, install gnuplot.
  • Unpack qanalyze.zip into a directory of your choosing.
  • From an xterm, invoke using a command like 'perl qanalyze texts/irs1040.txt'