Hello! You might be interested in knowing about the 30-day trial of the IBM Home Page Reader that we at our medical library are now viewing for possible installation at our new special needs workstation. The software is very reasonably priced, I hear (less than $150 bucks), and the product looks good so far. The voice can be changed according to gender or age group. http://www-3.ibm.com/able/hprtrial3.html From blurb: Home Page Reader (HPR) is a spoken on-ramp to the Information Highway for computer users who are blind or visually impaired. This innovative product provides unprecedented Web access by quickly, easily, and efficiently speaking Web page information. HPR provides a simple, easy-to-use interface for navigating and manipulating Web page elements and utilizes the tremendous capabilities of IBM's ViaVoice text-to-speech(TTS) text-to-speech synthesizer for speaking. Using the keyboard to navigate, a person who is blind or who has a visual impairment can hear the full range of Web page content provided in a logical, clear, and understandable manner. Home Page Reader can speak text, frames, image and text links, alternate text for images and image maps, form elements including JavaScript, graphics descriptions, text in column format, and data input fields. It even includes special table navigation features that allow users to understand even the most complex tables, such as television listings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anna Ercoli Schnitzer Information Services Librarian Taubman Medical Library University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI [log in to unmask]