1) emacspeak for one wordprocessor and not the only one either, sc for a spreadsheet as well as oleo and dismal works under emacspeak. MYSQL maybe for data base if you can figure out how to get it going. lynx and links for browsers and probably not the only ones either. 2) yes, one way it's being done is by running sawfish and having sawfish run emacspeak to get an xterm window under X11. No idea what's been done or being done but at least one person has done it with emacspeak. gnopernicus is also available no idea if or how that works since I swing for the text side not X11. -- Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>