Hello Friends, This is very interesting. I have no such sighted friends, they all think it is a bit "Weird" that I listen instead of using my eyes, but now remember Science Fiction is the window to the future and with that in mind Star Trek: Captain Kirk: "Computer" "Computer Working" "How long till we reach Vulcan" "We shal reach Vulcan in 23 hours 12 minutes and 14 seconds"!" LOL! Yep, just around the cornner I am sure and keyboards will be a thing of the past. With Best Regards, Alan Miami, Florida Alan Dicey, President United States Braille Chess Association - USBCA "Yes, Blind and Visually Impaired People, Can, and Do, Play Chess!" United States Braille Chess Association Home Page: http://AmericanBlindChess.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Yadiel Sotomayor To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 10:54 AM Subject: Nice story. Hello list: This just happened recently. I have a friend that used to taunt me because since I have jaws on my computer I could just sit back and relax while jaws spoke everything on the screen and he needed to read everything instead. Well, that changed a couple of weeks ago. I told him about the demo of jaws and guess what. He is sighted and yet he is using jaws everyday now on his computer. He says, it is faster and cooler than just reading on his computer. Also, he says that is is easier on his eyes. Also, he uses eloquence. That is wierder still because 99.9999999% of all my sighted collegues hate eloquence and prefer the real speak voices. Now he is almost as fluent with jaws as I. He also has eloquence at a rate faster than mine. I am telling you this because, when sighted peaple see how useful is jaws, they want to try it out and when they do, they don't think that it is weird at all. Finally, don't get me started on what he thinks about the virtual ribbons. He says (and again, remember that he is sighted) that that feature is a messege from God itself. Yadiel