Category: HotKeys

Specific laptop multimedia keys, such as Volume Up, Volume Down and Mute do not function properly after the ZoomText Keyboard software is installed.

In Word 2003, when viewing or editing a document in Reading Layout Mode, one or more of the following problems may occur:

• Blocks of text may intermittently disappear. For example, when toggling between applications using the Alt + Tab hotkey.
• Some characters and words may be compressed together or clipped.
• Characters may not appear when typing.

When running ZoomText 8.1 (or greater) in conjunction with Window-Eyes 5.5, ZoomText will not track correctly when the application focus moves around the screen. In addition, ZoomText hotkeys may not function as expected.

Learning the complete set of ZoomText 9 hotkeys can be a bit overwhelming. To make this task less daunting, Ai Squared has produced a list of select hotkeys that every ZoomText user should be familiar with order to achieve greater productivity.

On some systems, if ZoomText is active while attempting to start Microsoft Freecell, the Freecell program will freeze or crash, generating a Window blue screen error.

In the German version of ZoomText 8.10.0, the Web Finder and Desktop Finder hotkeys do not work. In addition, these hotkeys do not appear in ZoomText's Hotkeys dialog box.

When launching ZoomText, you may get one of the following:

When using ZoomText in Microsoft Internet Explorer, ZoomText's hotkeys may fail to work if the following applications or utilities are installed: