Hi, My early findings for XWindow Screen Readers are as follow: 1. Firefox is scheduled to have useable support in the first quarter next year. There is some support now, but there is a lot of features which are lacking. Once Firefox has this support, then either screen reader will work fine with the web. The Firefox developers are working closely with Sun and IBM to get this to work. 2. Star Office is can be used. But you cannot detect tables, bullet points, and other Word Process features. You can navigate through the document. Once again, Sun is adding a lot more support to the Open Office standard to improve accessibility. I have heard this is earmarked to be ready by mid next year. 3. The terminal environment of gnome works fine. I have not tryed this with LSR. 4. I haven't yet tested the mail environment.I have used Software Dectalk in Orca with no problems. A college has used IBM TTS via the Emacspeak Server with no problems with both LSR and Orca. LSR is very simular to how Jaws For Windows works. If you compare this to the Windows world, XWindow has managed to come a long way and I expect in the next 12 months you will be able to use Star Office, FireFox and Mail with no problems. Other programs I cannot say. I would not use festival because it is a painful TTS. Sean
