Please don't call it a "macro" that sounds too much like a virus and and too much like Just for Whims talk! I really don't care what it is called but yes there does need to be, as time permits it, a more flexible means to configure across different applications and individual needs. If Speakup wants to compete on this platform and to hold it's ground, then it will be necessary to offer more of those "bells and whistles" which one may or not consider personally important. First off, it's important that Speakup is stable, supports a variety of speech synthesizers and can at least support the typical functionality of a dos or text-oriented screen reader. If the author(s) aren't vested in this, then since it's based upon their unpaid input, then this is obviously their hchoice. It wouldn't surprise me though, that once Linux emerges as a more commonly utilized platform in Government and in the work and educational place, then there's nothing to prevent another vendor from developing a Linux Screen Reader to market for Accessibility. So wether or not Speakup wants a competative edge, is obviously not my decision to make. But I'd certainly prefer seeing Speakup emerge as the preferred Screen Reader for Linux. Amanda Lee Alexandria, VA
