Oh, I know it's reasonable technically, Doug. What I am doing with this thread is trying to get all of us to think out of the box as far as UI goes. I was fortunate enough not to be born with any disabilities (ugly doesn't count - lol) but a lot of people are or acquire them.

I don't think generic screen readers are the answer.

>That feature is not as far out as you might think. If you have ever used the chat program ICQ, you will know there is an available "Text-to-Voice" plug-in for that program, which *reads* the message. One of the characteristics is that it will 'read' the active window. I tried it on a little demo program I put together, and it works fine with the !run /n command. OR you can initialize it any where in yout application and it stays resident, reading whatever active screen shows up. The 'voice' is rather mechanical, and you only have two choices, Male and female.
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>>Not silly at all. Pretty cool. Now, if you could use MouseOver to also have the control "say" what it is with voice control......
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>>>This might be a silly idea but....
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>>>There was a thread last week about making buttons grow to a larger size when the mouse moved over them. I had thought that might be a cool way to help out visually impaired users, since you could do it for any control.
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>>>On mouseover all controls with text could double or triple in size making it very easy to read.
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>>>What do you think?