I will tell you why I am working toward the development of a PDA for blind people. The first reason is that there is not a comparable product on the market. Furhter many sighted people have found that a device that is not as powerful as a laptop and much more powerful then a simple notepad is quite handy. There is no reason to believe that blind people wouldn't find a similar device handy as well. As for the lack of resources, well obvviously if I had more it would be an easier task. But if I wait for resources beforestarting then nothing will ever happen. In fact, it would seem to me that if everyone operated on the premise that since there is a loack of resources we shouldn't try to keep up, eventually there will be no such thing as blind access to computers. I would imagine that Speakup started as a desire of Kirk to get console speech in Linux and he had almost no resources. I know that many Linux programs start that way. I honestly hope that someone comes out with a product that makes my ideas of a product impracticle. If someone does come out with an affordable product then I will truely be happy. Otherwise I will endeavor to make one that people can actually offord. -- Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net ------------------ I really have little to do with them, for I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one. Ignatius Reilly (Confederacy of Dunces)