Freedom Box runs on M$ Windows, as well as linux. I have the Windows version running, and use it often. It is an excellent alternative to Jaws. It has multiple parts to it--there is Freedom Box, which is a community vaguely like AOL, in that it has forums, news, and tons of information available through easy to use menus. The major difference is that it is *all* designed to be accessible for persons who are blind, and the information content is set up for that purpose--access to more than 25,000 etexts for example. Outside of the Freedom Box network--an intranet of its own--there is FBSA. FBSA is Freedom Box System Access, which gives speech access to the OS. This is optimized to work with Windows, as linux has not had much participation to date. I am getting ready to set up Freedom Box on my Debian installation, but not quite there yet. Yes, it uses the Mozilla browser, and that browser is good. Through the FB network, all updates are automatic--no hassle, no muss, no fuss. The system is stable, neospeech is great, and it gives me the best access I have yet had to the internet or to all the capabilities of XP. It works great at the command line, for example--much like ASAP. If one is running JP Software's 4nt, or Take Command, it handles it just fine. It would be great if more linux users tried the linux version and helped to get it improved. It lacks features, as it has no standard editor in linux, or an equivalent of Outlook. Matt Campbell is one of the support/development team--a linux guru as users of some of his previous have reason to know. He developed Trueplayer among other things. One of the advantages of having the FB network is a capability of using the browser on sites that would normally be inaccessible. There are ways to make such sites accessible, save the alterations, and have them automatically shared through the FB network--even if you later use IE--which I mostly do not. This makes things like Amazon accessible. This should also be true through the linux version, as it does not depend on the OS being run. HTH Gary _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list