ZoomText provides a wide range of magnification levels, allowing you to enlarge everything according to your needs. You can instantly zoom in or out at any time using keyboard commands or the mouse wheel.

ZoomText magnification levels include:

• 1x
• 1.25x
• 1.5x
• 1.75x
• 2x

• 2.5x
• 3x
• 4x
• 5x
• 6x

• 7x
• 8x
• 9x
• 10x
• 12x

• 14x
• 16x
• 20x
• 24x
• 28x

• 32x
• 36x

1x Magnification

2x Magnification

4x Magnification

8x Magnification

With other screen magnifiers, the clarity of text is degraded in the magnified view. As a result, many fonts (text characters) are difficult to read, including small fonts, serif and italic fonts, and cursive fonts.

With ZoomText’s revolutionary ‘xFont’ technology, you’ll see amazingly clear text at all magnification levels. All types and sizes of text are displayed with high-definition clarity, in all of your applications. Once you’ve seen xFont, no other screen magnifier will do.

Standard Magnification

xFont Magnification

ZoomText’s new Dual Monitor Support allows you to extend your magnified viewing area to a second screen, or simultaneously share a magnified or unmagnified view of your desktop on a second screen for others to see.

Primary Span extends ZoomText’s magnified view across the primary and secondary monitors, doubling the amount of information that can be seen at any time. With twice as much information in view you can work with greater speed and comfort than is possible when using a single monitor:

Primary Clone displays the same magnified view on your primary and secondary monitors. This mode is useful when two or more users need to see the same magnified view, but are not seated so that they can share a single monitor:

Primary with 1x displays a magnified view on your primary monitor and an unmagnified view on your secondary monitor. This mode is useful when a low vision user and normal-sighted user are working together on the same system. The low vision user can zoom in to the desired level (on the primary monitor) while the normal-sighted user sees the unmagnified view on the secondary monitor:

A zoom window displays a magnified view of the computer screen. You can think of a zoom window as a magnifying glass held in front of the screen. A zoom window only displays a portion of the screen at any one time, but by scrolling its magnified contents, you can view any area of the screen.

ZoomText provides eight zoom window types: Full, Overlay, Lens, Line and four Docked positions. Each of these windows offer a unique way of viewing what is on the screen. At any time, you can switch zoom window types to accommodate a different task or application environment.

Full Window

Full Window (with Freeze Window)

Overlay

Lens

Line

Docked Top

Docked Bottom

Docked Left

Docked Right

ZoomText’s Screen Enhancements improve the clarity of everything on your computer screen.

Color enhancements improve clarity of text and graphics, providing easier viewing and reduced eyestrain. The color enhancement options consist of a variety of filter effects that adjust color, contrast and brightness. You can choose from preset color schemes or configure your own custom color settings:

Pointer enhancements make it easy to locate and follow the mouse pointer. You can adjust the size and color of the pointer and activate a locator that emphasizes the pointer’s position on the screen. You can choose from preset pointer schemes or configure your own custom pointer settings:

Cursor enhancements make it easy to locate and follow the text cursor. A choice of high visibility locators mark the cursor’s position, without obscuring the surrounding text. You can choose from preset cursor schemes or configure your own custom cursor settings:

Focus enhancements make it easy to locate and follow the control focus when you tab and arrow key through menus, dialogs, toolbars, and other application controls. You can choose from preset focus schemes or configure your own custom focus settings:

With ZoomText’s application settings, you can define custom settings for each application that you use. For example, you can configure ZoomText to display your web browser using Full zoom at 2x magnification, and your word processor using line zoom at 4x magnification. As you switch between them, ZoomText automatically loads the selected settings:

Internet Explorer: Full zoom at 2x

Microsoft Word: Line zoom at 4x

ZoomText’s Desktop, Web and Text Finders allow you to quickly find applications and documents, web page links, and text within the active application or the entire screen. With intuitive filters and search tools, you can quickly find any item of interest.

The Desktop Finder helps you find and open programs and documents that reside in your Windows desktop environment – including the quick launch bar, system tray, control panel and My Documents folder.
Learn how the Desktop Finder works.

The Web Finder helps you find links and controls in Internet Explorer, Firefox, AOL, HTML emails, and HTML Help systems, allowing you to quickly navigate web pages and HTML documents.
Learn how the Web Finder works.

The Text Finder allows you to instantly locate words or phrases within any application or document window, or the entire screen.
Learn how the Text Finder works.

ZoomText’s powerful screen reading options let you hear what you are doing. As you type text, use the mouse and navigate through your applications, ZoomText narrates and confirms each of your actions. By adjusting ZoomText’s echo settings, ZoomText can speak as little or as much as you want.

Typing Echo allows you to hear the keys and words that you type. You can choose to have individual keys, words, or both spoken. Whatever your choice, you’ll be able to type with greater speed and accuracy.

Mouse Echo automatically reads text beneath the mouse pointer. As you move the pointer across the screen, single words or complete lines of text are echoed. Mouse echo is great for exploring the layout of your desktop and applications, or for spot reading in documents, web pages and email.

Program Echo speaks window titles, menus, dialogs, list views, and all other program controls as you navigate and use your applications. As each window or control becomes active, program echo announces its name and description, so you always know where you are and what choices are available. Program echo is your personal navigation system.

Verbosity allows you to adjust the amount of information spoken by the program echo feature. Three verbosity levels – Beginner, Intermediate and Expert – allow you to quickly increase or decrease the verbosity. Beginner verbosity provides more information, while Expert verbosity provides less information. Each of these verbosity levels can be fully customized according to your personal needs.

ZoomText offers a variety of tools for quick and easy reading of documents, web pages and email. Each of these tools has unique characteristics that lend themselves to particular reading tasks.

AppReader

AppReader reads documents, web pages and email, within the parent application. As you enter and exit AppReader your view of the document does not change, providing quick and seamless transitions between document editing and reading. AppReader can automatically read through the entire document, or you can manually read by word, line, sentence or paragraph. As reading occurs, each spoken word is highlighted. AppReader settings allow you to customize the appearance of word highlighting, including the highlight shape, size, color and transparency level.

Using AppReader in Microsoft Word

DocReader

DocReader reads documents, web pages and email, in a special environment where text is reformatted for easier viewing. Text is presented in a single line (Ticker) or wrapped lines (Prompter), with your choice of fonts, colors, word highlighting, and magnification level. DocReader can automatically read through an entire document, or you can manually read by word, line, sentence or paragraph. As reading occurs, each spoken word is highlighted. The DocReader screen occupies the entire display with a toolbar at the top of the screen and the document text below it. The document text is formatted and displayed according to the current DocReader settings.

DocReader Ticker Mode

DocReader Prompter Mode

Reading Zones

Reading zones let you instantly see and hear selected locations in an application window. For example; your database application may display a dozen or more fields of information. In your normal work flow you may be interested in only a few of these fields. With reading zones, you can instantly see and/or hear these select fields with the press of a hotkey.

You can create up to 10 reading zones for each of your applications. As you open and switch applications, zones defined for the active application are automatically loaded and ready to use.

ZoomText comes with four speech synthesizers: TruVoice, ViaVoice, Microsoft Speech and the impressive NeoSpeech, recognized for it’s human-sounding voice quality. With NeoSpeech, all of your documents, web pages and email are read aloud with natural sounding voices that are clear and enjoyable to listen to.

Click below to hear samples of NeoSpeech Paul and Kate:

ZoomText’s friendly user interface makes it easy to access all ZoomText features with either the mouse or keyboard. Standard menus and easy-to-use toolbars provide fast access to the most important and frequently used settings.

ZoomText 9.1 has been completely redesigned to offer you the greatest screen magnification and reading capabilities of any software of its kind.

We’d like to show you some of the amazing things that ZoomText can do for you. Whether you’ve owned ZoomText for years or are completely new to the software, we want to make sure you are taking full advantage of its features.

On the left side of the page under the “ZoomText Tour” heading you’ll see a list of the major ZoomText features. Click on the features you are interested in learning more about or simply click on the “Start Tour” button below to get started.

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