Hello from Chicago! To learn more about what's going on in Briton, consider subscribing to the e-mail list of the blind computing division of the British computer Society. You can find out more about it on blist at http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/blist.html Also, visit the newsgroup alt.comp.blind-users. A lot of uk people hang out there as the entire contents of that newsgroup is ported to Demon, a blind friendly Internet service provider. In the United States, there are two main laws regarding online access to government service. The ADA covers all units of government except the federal government. The federal government is covered by the civil rights provisions in the Rehabilitation Act, which require communications with people with disabilities to be "effective." This could include making a web site accessible or downloading the info and sending it to someone. The recent changes to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act will likely require web sites of the federal government or produced under federal contract to be accessible. Proposed guidelines have been released. A final rule is expected next year. If you are interested in 508 issues, the Justice Department produced a nice kit on access and how agencies can meet this policy with little burden. I just looked up your country and discovered that there are slightly more people there than in Chicago. I suppose with hundreds of millions of people, things can be more layered and complicated. If you want more info, tell us which paths you wish to explore. kelly 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