Hi All, I must say I found the press release about GNOME equally confusing and uninformative. I've worked on Sun kit for several years, and its great as long a you stick to the command line interface, or curses based screen applications. However, I don't think Sun can claim that much in the way of accessibility for Java as yet. I know there has been some work in this area, but the nearest I've ever come to using it, was to install the Java access classes on my PC for interfacing with JFW. This has improved my access to any aplications by exactly nothing as far as I can tell, so I'm hoping that the GNOME (which most people I've ever heard pronounce as nome) project, will be a bit more apparent in its benefits. Presumably, it will have no effect on end-user accessibility unless somebody writes a screenreader which capitalises on the accessibility features built in to the GNOME environment. Hope I'm not being too negative about this, as I'd certainly like it to succeed. However, I'm wondering if its a feature of Unix/Linux that there is a large proportion of people without sight problems who don't care much for the GUI approach, and if this explains why a lot of applications which are entirely non GUI are still maintained. If this is the case, maybe its not worth putting lots of development into GUI access for the blind on Unix flavoured operating systems. Regards, Tim Pennick