The problem is not what works or what technologies are best, the problem is that APPARRENTLY! the federation promised an exposure to a wide variety of technology and turned it into an endoctrination to their rather rigit narrow point of view. Many partially sighted folks I know would tell them to take their blind folds and do something unpleasant with them. Although I am and always have been totally blind, I strongly disbelieve in this blindfolding technique except in very carefully controlled cases done with individuals. there were, according to the story we read, two things wrong here. The federation didn't do what it promised, and they apparrently got a government body to pay them to provide an endoctrination session to their cult's viewpoint.. If they'd said straight up what the weekend would have been that might have been O.K. but apparrently there was some dishonesty involved in promises made. so who's surprised considering how most cults operate. A good reader is so much better than any computer it isn't even a race, but good readers are rare as honest politicians or rarer. I've been there and done all that too, and there are goods and bads about technology but I'd not want to do email with a reader would you? tom Fowle Net-Tamer V 1.12.0 - 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