Schoeppi, This sounds interesting. Brltty also has the capability to read out attributes, but I've never used it. Brltty also has some support for speech, and it will get better in the future. John On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > Hello! > > On Mit, Jun 26, 2002 at 08:21:35 -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: > > Ok. So let's have a comparison of brltty and suse from people who have > > tried both. I have never had to set attributes for a particular program, > > so I wondeer if this feature is really very useful. > > John > > I Think this feature is very usefull! Rreading out the attributes of a > screen and pipe them into programm that can handel them and react > in some way brings up a higher flexibility. Suse-Blinux reads out for > example the color or a underlined part on the screen and in a profile you > can tell the screenreader, what to do with this things. That makes it very > easy to work with programms like mc or the configurationstool of SuSE > called yast2, you can underline links in a browser or take a look at a > statusline and when it changes it comes up on the brailledisplay. > Attributes are also good for the speechoutput. Only the "interesting" > things on the screen are outputet of the speechsynth. > > Best regards, > Schoeppi > > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703