I guess JFW has really done their marketing well, since you can say that their support for six different braille displays constitutes making them the leading screen reader for braille display support, especially when the two-year-old version 2.54 of SynthaVoice's WindowBridge screen reader supported 35 displays and they added a few more in versions 2.55 and 2.56. Other than that piece of disinformation, your report on the Alva Braille Window was okay. Now to see the real most reliable and easiest-to-use braille displays, take a look at anything in the current Braillex line from Papenmeier, which are also supported by JFW and by WindowBridge. Information on the Braillex products for U.S. prospective buyers can be gotten at the website of the U.S. distributor, Sighted Electronics: http://www.sighted.com/ Reply to: [log in to unmask] Brent Reynolds, Atlanta, GA USA Net-Tamer V 1.12 Beta - Registered VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. To join or leave the list, send a message to [log in to unmask] In the body of the message, simply type "subscribe vicug-l" or "unsubscribe vicug-l" without the quotations. VICUG-L is archived on the World Wide Web at http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html