On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Lar Kaufman wrote: >From the polymedia perspective, the data being accessed should be capable >of presentation by braille and by speech devices simultaneously and >alternatively (and perhaps optionally sequentially) by choice of the user. I can tell that you've taken law classes. :-) I am a braille user, and that suffices for most tasks. Where I would find speech to be a very useful augmentation for the rendering of status messages Even if the cursor moves to the status line, I would like the braille display to stay where it is and for the status line to be spoken. Note that this can get complicated when apliations are nested. I very often run pine from within screen. Pine uses the third line freom the bottom for its status messages, and screen uses the very bottom line for its status messages. It would not be sufficient, therefore, to tell the braille/speech complex to ignore cursor motion if it's to a specific line, and to always speak changes on that line. It depends on why the cursor was moved to that line, and on why the content of that line was changed. -- Dave Mielke | 856 Grenon Avenue | I believe that the Bible is the Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me EMail: dave@xxxxxxxxx | Canada K2B 6G3 | if you're concerned about Hell.