Just my opinion, but in order for YASR to be more usable, it needs to be able to run as a background process similar to brltty. As it stands now, the last version of YASR I tried still ran as a subshell, rendering it nearly unusable except in a single terminal. The subshell approach does have the advantage that it can run in gnome-terminal or xterm, but for most tasks, a background process would be much more desirable. I may be way off base, but I'm thinking that even if someone does step up and maintain the YASR code again, it will most likely need to be redesigned in order to be used systemwide. ~Kyle