My vote is for text-based apps with the GUI as a last resort. Unfortunately, blind people in the working world are more often than not forced to cope with GUI even where text-based alternatives exist. What hasn't been mentioned is that we have good access to console apps with speakup, brltty and/or emacspeak which are all FREE programs. Contrast this with the commercial windows screen reader which costs more than your computer or speech synthesizer. While I haven't played with it, IBM's home page reader may be the most cost effective solution for a blind person who wants to ONLY surf the net and send email. I think we're all interested in javascript as it relates to web browsing. I'm puzzled to see the comment about javascript development cloaked in secrecy. If this is to be a commercial product, I can understand, but this is supposed to be an open environment where ideas and advice are shared. Chris
