What’s New in ZoomText 10?
With each major release of ZoomText, Ai Squared looks outside the box to identify, develop and deliver the next big thing in computer access for the visually impaired—a major game changer that leads our customers into a bigger space of access, inclusion and success, and at the same time leaving our competitors further behind and wondering “What happened?”
Ai Squared is proud to announce the release ZoomText 10 which delivers a collection of innovative and exciting new features that extends ZoomText usefulness beyond the computer screen. These new features allow users to create, find and consume information faster and more productively than ever before—not just electronic information on your computer, but all printed materials too. In addition, some of these features allow the user to multitask, putting vision impaired users on an equal footing with their sighted peers.
ZoomText Magnifier/Reader Only Features
ZoomText Recorder
The ZoomText Recorder allows you to turn text from documents, webpages, email, etc. into audio recordings that you can transfer to on your mobile device and listen to at your convenience. Recordings can be saved directly to a ZoomText Recorder playlist in iTunes or Windows Media Player and automatically synced to your mobile device.
ZoomText Background Reader
ZoomText’s Background Reader allows you to listen to documents, webpages, email, etc. while you simultaneously perform other tasks. You simply select the text you want to listen to and press the Background Reader hotkey, Background Reader begins reading the text while you go about other work. At any time you can pause and resume reading and skim forward and backward by word or sentence.
AppRead from Pointer
Launch AppReader from an exact location on a webpage or document with a simple keystroke.
ZoomText Magnifier and Magnifier/Reader Features
ZoomText Camera
The new ZoomText Camera feature allows you to use any high-definition (HD) webcam to view and magnify printed items and other objects right on your computer screen—including bills, magazines, photographs, medicine labels, craft items and more. Simple controls allow you to quickly zoom in and out, choose between full and high contrast colors, and switch between Full and Split screen views where you can see the camera image and your Windows desktop at the same time.
ZoomText Enhanced Web Finder
ZoomText’s Enhanced Web Finder allows you to search webpages for specific words or phrases, or skim through pages to find items of interest. As you navigate through the page each item you come to is highlighted and announced. When an item of interest is found you can have Web Finder start reading aloud from that location. If the item is a link to another page you can have Web Finder execute the link and continue your search on the new page.
Full Windows Logon Support (with ZoomText Logon UI)
ZoomText’s logon support is now available in Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. ZoomText’s logon support provides essential magnification and screen reading features when logging into Windows.
