ZoomText

ZoomText Magnifier enlarges and enhances everything on your computer screen, making all of your applications easy to see and use. Our revolutionary new ‘xFont’ technology displays crystal clear text at all magnification levels. Once you’ve seen it, no other screen magnifier will do.

Combining the revolutionary new features of ZoomText Magnifier with a powerful set of reading tools, ZoomText Magnifier/Reader gives you the total computer access solution. See and hear what you’re doing in all of your applications, and give your eyes a rest while ZoomText reads your documents, web pages and email – right through your computer’s speakers. With ZoomText Magnifier/Reader, your computer is easier to see, hear, and use.

What’s New in ZoomText 9.1?

ZoomText 9.1 delivers innovative magnification and reading features that allow low vision computers users to see, hear and use their computer with greater comfort and productivity. Below you find a list of the powerful features introduced in ZoomText 9.1. With the clearest text, clearest voices, and now twice the magnified view, ZoomText 9.1 is the clear choice.

New Dual Monitor Support
Now you can utilize two monitors to “expand your magnified view”. At any magnification level you can now have twice as much information in view at all times, cutting down on the amount of scrolling necessary to see everything on screen. You can also use the second screen to share a magnified or unmagnified view of your desktop with another person or group.
Note: Dual Monitor Support is available in Windows Vista and XP only.

New Focus Enhancements
The new Focus enhancement feature makes it easy to locate and follow along when you tab and arrow key through menus, dialogs, tool bars, and other application controls. When a control has focus, a bright, colorful rectangle or underline is placed around or under the control, making selection of controls much clearer.

Support for Windows Vista
ZoomText 9.1 offers robust support for the new Windows Vista operating system, allowing you to take advantage of Vista’s improved security, stability and of course, it’s fresh, eye-catching user experience.

New Windows Vista Logon Support
ZoomText’s new logon support provides essential magnification and screen reading features when logging into Windows Vista.

Support for Microsoft Office 2007
ZoomText 9.1 is ready for the new look and feel of Office 2007. In Word, Excel and Outlook, all of the new user interface components are tracked and spoken with the clarity you’ve come to expect in previous versions of Office.

Support for Adobe Acrobat 8 and Adobe Reader 8
ZoomText’s reading tools, including AppReader and DocReader, allow you to create and read documents in the latest releases of Acrobat and Reader.

Support for Mozilla Firefox 2.0
ZoomText offers advanced support for Firefox 2.0, allowing you to accurately navigate and read complete web pages. In addition, you can use ZoomText’s Web Finder and Text Finder to quickly locate the links, controls and text that you’re interested in.

New Screen Enhancement Schemes
Additional schemes have been added to each of ZoomText’s screen enhancement options.

New Inverted Block Locator Type
A new type of view locator that provides greater emphasis on the area that’s currently being magnified, making it easier to select a new area to zoom in on.

New Cursor Enhancement Sample Box
The Cursor Enhancement dialog now includes a sample box to help you select a cursor enhancement scheme or select custom cursor settings.

System Requirements

To use ZoomText, your computer must have the following hardware and software:

• 450 MHz Pentium® III processor or equivalent; 1.5 GHz for Windows Vista

• One of the following operating systems:
  • Windows Vista (32 bit OS only, 64 bit Vista is not supported)
  • Windows XP (32 bit OS only, 64 bit XP is not supported)
  • Windows 2000

• Internet Explorer 5.0 or later

• Minimum 256 MB RAM; Minimum 1 GB required for Windows Vista

• Minimum 25 MB free hard disk space (additional 60 MB required for each NeoSpeech synthesizer)

• Sound card for Magnifier/Reader version only

Note: Hardware requirements are higher for systems running the core features of Windows Vista. For more information, see the Minimum Support System Requirements on the Windows Vista website.