ZoomText Magnifier 9.1

Product Information

What's New in Version 9.1?

• ZoomText Magnifier/Reader 9.1 helps give your eyes a rest while it reads your documents, web pages and email - right through your computer's speakers.
• New Dual Monitor Support allows you to 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. 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 makes it easy to locate and follow the control focus 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.

• Flexible Magnification - Full range of magnification levels up to 36x. Levels include: 1x to 8x in steps of 1, 10x to 16x in steps of 2, 20x to 36x in steps of 4, and fractional powers of 1.25x, 1.5x, 1.75x and 2.5x.
• Powerful Zoom Windows - 8 different zoom windows allow you to choose which part of the screen is magnified.
• Font Enhancements - xFont technology displays high-definition text that's easy to read at all magnification levels. Smooth, bold and condense settings allow you to fine-tune the thickness and spacing of text for added legibility.
• Enhanced Screen Colors - Innovative color controls improve screen clarity and reduce eyestrain. Special effects include color dyes, two-color modes and replacement of problem colors.
• Visible Pointers and Cursors - Size and color enhancements make it easy to see the mouse pointer. Special locators make it easier to follow the mouse pointer and text cursor as they move across the screen.
• Desktop Finder- helps you find and launch programs and documents on your desktop, system tray and quick launch bar.
• Web Finder - helps you find links and controls in any web page, allowing you to navigate the web with faster than ever before.
• Text Finder - helps you locate words, phrases and topics of interest in documents, web pages, and application windows.
• Application Settings - Save unique settings for each application that you use. As you switch applications, ZoomText automatically loads the desired settings.
• Windows Vista Logon Support provides essential magnification and screen reading support when logging in Windows Vista.

ZoomText 9.1 Magnifier/ScreenReader
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.

• New Dual Monitor Support - ZoomText’s new dual monitor support allows you to 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. 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 the control focus 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.
• New 'NeoSpeech' Synthesizer Voices - NeoSpeech provides human-sounding male and female voices that are closer to the real thing than ever before (English only).  ZoomText also includes classic TruVoice, ViaVoice and Microsoft speech synthesizers.
• Complete Screen Reading - ZoomText automatically speaks all program controls, including menus, dialogs, list views and messages. Three verbosity levels give you complete control over the amount of information spoken.
• Automatic Document Reading - ZoomText’s AppReader automatically reads documents, web pages and email within the parent application. ZoomText’s DocReader reads documents in a special environment where text is reformatted for easier viewing.
• Reading Zones allow you to instantly see and hear selected locations in your applications. Define up to 10 zones per application that you can trigger via pop-up menu or keyboard commands.
• Full Internet Accessibility - ZoomText reads any web page, in the proper reading order. You can read automatically or manually navigate by word, line, sentence and paragraph.
• Text Navigation - Navigation keys make it easy to read while creating and editing documents. With simple commands you can read by character, word, line, sentence and paragraph, even while selecting text.
• Typing Echo - Each key or word that you type is automatically spoken. You can choose to have all keys spoken or only selected groups of keys.
• Mouse Echo - Mouse echo automatically reads text that you point to. Single words or complete lines of text are spoken instantly or after hovering briefly.
• SpeakIt Tool - The SpeakIt tool allows you to read selected areas of the screen by clicking or dragging the mouse.
• Special Application Support - Built in support for popular applications – including Microsoft Office 2007 (Word, Excel, Outlook), Adobe Acrobat 8. Adobe Reader 8, Firefox 2.0 and Java – allow you to read and navigate your documents with 100% accuracy.

ZoomText Magnifier/Reader USB Drive -

• With the new ZoomText USB Drive, you can run ZoomText on any computer without purchasing additional licensing.
• Great for anyone on the go.
• Portable, personalized settings automatically load every time you start ZoomText.
• Includes both ZoomText Magnifier and Reader.

ZoomText 9.1 System Requirements (For all models) -

• 450 MHz Pentium® III processor or equivalent
  1.5 GHz for Windows Vista
• One of the following operating systems:
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP
  • 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

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.