The Optacon II had two good things though. One was the extra video setting to allow us to read other portions of windows screens with the crt lens. The other was the screen-reader called o2pc which came with it. I used that to read the computer screen until I got a braille display. If they had only kept updating that, imagine the benefit. It was a little slow compared to speech or braille but boy was it accurate and boy did you have control! I miss it. If any of you programmers wanted to playwith it I could send you a copy but even TSI wouldn't devulge the source code. Catherine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Catherine Thomas braille@xxxxxxxxx / ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject. Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject.