Enhancements in ZoomText 2025.2506.86 (July 2025)$$$The following describes improvements made in the July 2025 update.$$$$$$Starting with the July 2025 release; JAWS; ZoomText; and Fusion now support time-based Software Maintenance Agreements (SMAs) for perpetual licenses. This allows users to run any version of the software within a specified time frame. For example; a ZoomText two-year timed SMA purchased on July 2; 2025; permits running any release prior to July 2; 2027. Contact Freedom Scientific sales or your local distributor for more information.$$$$$$Improved Google Doc Support$$$ZoomText now offers noticeably improved support in Google Docs. Features like AppReader; Live Text View; mouse echo; and typing echo now work when reading or navigating documents. You may experience inconsistent results when using the App View tool while scrolling through a Google Doc.$$$$$$ZoomText and Fusion 2025: Now with DirectX 11 Support for Better Performance$$$ZoomText and Fusion 2025 now support DirectX 11 as an Early Adopter Program feature. This new support:$$$$$$Reduces memory and resource usage$$$Improves compatibility with multiple 4K monitors and modern graphics cards$$$Enhances support for current and future development; which ensures a more responsive and reliable user experience.$$$Enable DirectX 11 in Early Adopter Program$$$DirectX 11 is part of the new Magnification Engine 2026 update and is available as an Early Adopter Program feature. To use DirectX 11; you must first enable the new Magnification Engine 2026 in the Early Adopter Program dialog.$$$$$$From the ZoomText or Fusion menu; choose Help > Early Adopter Program.$$$In the Early Adopter Program dialog; select Magnification Engine 2026.$$$Click OK and restart the software. The magnification engine and DirectX 11 are now available for use.$$$Navigation Quick Keys in Live Text View (Fusion only)$$$Live Text View in Fusion now supports Navigation Quick Keys; giving you a faster way to move through content in web pages; documents; and emails.$$$$$$What are Navigation Quick Keys?$$$Navigation Quick Keys are single letters or keystroke combinations that let you jump to specific types of elements. For example; in a web page:$$$$$$Press H to move to the next heading.$$$Press P to move to the next paragraph.$$$Press B to move to the next button.$$$For more; see Navigation Quick Keys for a list of commonly used keystrokes.$$$$$$Where can I use them?$$$Navigation Quick Keys are supported in:$$$$$$Web pages$$$PDF files$$$Microsoft Word documents$$$(Note; you must first enable Navigation Quick Keys by pressing INSERT+Z. You can then type the keystrokes.)$$$Outlook messages$$$How does it work in Live Text View?$$$When you press a Navigation Quick Key:$$$$$$Live Text View displays the corresponding text.$$$The Position Indicator symbol (Live Text View Position Indicator symbol.) appears; indicating you are using Navigation Quick Keys.$$$The text is read aloud using Fusion speech.$$$This makes it easier to follow along visually and stay focused as you navigate.$$$$$$Picture Smart AI$$$Fusions Picture Smart AI Mouse Mode now analyzes the correct screen area even if the Display Adapter is set to Magnification API.$$$$$$Microsoft Outlook$$$The accuracy of the focus enhancement locator has been improved when reading and composing emails in Outlook. You will now see more precise tracking as you move through your messages.$$$The cursor enhancement now appears in the correct position within a line of text and no longer jumps to the beginning of the line when reading a message.$$$While creating a new meeting in Outlook Calendar; program echo now reliably announces each attendee as you add them from the Invite list.$$$Program echo now speaks when composing an email and adding suggested recipients displayed in the To: field.$$$Activation$$$After completing product activation for a JAWS; ZoomText; or Fusion license; users are now prompted to register their software. This option is currently available for English installations.$$$$$$Other Enhanceme

Enhancements in ZoomText 2025.2502.63 (March 2025)$$$The following describes new features and improvements made in the March 2025 update.$$$$$$ARM64 Support in ZoomText and Fusion$$$We are excited to announce that ZoomText and Fusion 2025 now fully support ARM64 devices running Windows 11. This means a faster and smoother experience on the latest Copilot+ PCs; like the Surface Pro (11th edition) and Surface Laptop (7th edition). The ZoomText and Fusion 2025 installers automatically detect ARM64 processors and will install the right version on your device. To verify; open the About dialog (ZoomText or Fusion menu > Help > About) and you will see either ZoomText® 2025 (ARM64) or Fusion® 2025 (ARM64) as your software version.$$$$$$Live Text View$$$Live Text View is a ZoomText screen magnifier feature that improves the readability of on-screen text in web browsers and other applications. It displays a continuous line of clear; easy-to-read text across the top or bottom of the screen; showing content from the cursor; mouse pointer; or focus location as you navigate documents; emails; and web pages. This content displays in a window known as the Live Text View; where you can customize the font; size; and color contrast to match your reading preferences.$$$$$$Here are a few examples of how Live Text View can make it easier to read text on a magnified screen.$$$$$$Some text is hard to read; like yellow on a white background or dark gray on black. Live Text View helps by showing the text in a clear; easy-to-read font with high contrast colors that you choose. Just move your mouse over the text; and it will appear in the view window.$$$Decorative fonts and italic styles are good for attracting attention but can be difficult to read on a magnified screen. Live Text View makes this text readable in the view window.$$$Busy backgrounds can be distracting and cause text and images to blend into the background. Hovering the mouse pointer over this area of the screen can pick up lines of text and display them in the view window.$$$Page layouts with multiple columns and images; like those on a news website; can be a challenge to read with a screen magnifier since only a small portion of the screen is visible at a time. Constantly scrolling in different directions to follow the text can be frustrating and interrupt reading. Live Text View helps by allowing you to (1) lower magnification to see more of the screen and overall layout; (2) move the mouse pointer or focus to the area of interest and the text you want to read; and (3) view the text clearly in the Live Text View window.$$$A settings dialog in an application often includes elements like check boxes; radio buttons; dropdown lists; and spin boxes. By positioning the mouse pointer over any of these items; Live Text View can recognize them and show both the element and its current state clearly in the view window.$$$Pairing Live Text View with AppReader App View combines the best of both. Live Text View provides clear visual text; while AppReader adds speech output and highlights the exact text position. This ensures strong reading support while allowing you to stay active in the document and make text edits as needed.$$$$$$Live Text View is an Early Adopter Program Feature$$$Live Text View is available for preview as an Early Adopter Program feature. It currently supports single monitor configurations. It is not available in remote desktop configurations or on touch screen devices.$$$$$$In the ZoomText or Fusion menu; choose Help and then Early Adopter Program.$$$Select the Live Text View check box.$$$Click OK and restart the software.$$$After restarting; Live Text View appears on the Magnifier toolbar tab. It replaces the Navigation button; which is now a submenu in the ZoomText or Fusion menu.$$$$$$Submitting Feedback$$$While evaluating Live Text View; you are encouraged to give feedback about your experience. Feedback can be given whether the feature is enabled or not.$$$$$$To give feedback; do the following:$$$$$$I

Enhancements in ZoomText 2025.2502.63 (March 2025)$$$The following describes new features and improvements made in the March 2025 update.$$$$$$ARM64 Support in ZoomText and Fusion$$$We are excited to announce that ZoomText and Fusion 2025 now fully support ARM64 devices running Windows 11. This means a faster and smoother experience on the latest Copilot+ PCs; like the Surface Pro (11th edition) and Surface Laptop (7th edition). The ZoomText and Fusion 2025 installers automatically detect ARM64 processors and will install the right version on your device. To verify; open the About dialog (ZoomText or Fusion menu > Help > About) and you will see either ZoomText® 2025 (ARM64) or Fusion® 2025 (ARM64) as your software version.$$$$$$Live Text View$$$Live Text View is a ZoomText screen magnifier feature that improves the readability of on-screen text in web browsers and other applications. It displays a continuous line of clear; easy-to-read text across the top or bottom of the screen; showing content from the cursor; mouse pointer; or focus location as you navigate documents; emails; and web pages. This content displays in a window known as the Live Text View; where you can customize the font; size; and color contrast to match your reading preferences.$$$$$$Here are a few examples of how Live Text View can make it easier to read text on a magnified screen.$$$$$$Some text is hard to read; like yellow on a white background or dark gray on black. Live Text View helps by showing the text in a clear; easy-to-read font with high contrast colors that you choose. Just move your mouse over the text; and it will appear in the view window.$$$Decorative fonts and italic styles are good for attracting attention but can be difficult to read on a magnified screen. Live Text View makes this text readable in the view window.$$$Busy backgrounds can be distracting and cause text and images to blend into the background. Hovering the mouse pointer over this area of the screen can pick up lines of text and display them in the view window.$$$Page layouts with multiple columns and images; like those on a news website; can be a challenge to read with a screen magnifier since only a small portion of the screen is visible at a time. Constantly scrolling in different directions to follow the text can be frustrating and interrupt reading. Live Text View helps by allowing you to (1) lower magnification to see more of the screen and overall layout; (2) move the mouse pointer or focus to the area of interest and the text you want to read; and (3) view the text clearly in the Live Text View window.$$$A settings dialog in an application often includes elements like check boxes; radio buttons; dropdown lists; and spin boxes. By positioning the mouse pointer over any of these items; Live Text View can recognize them and show both the element and its current state clearly in the view window.$$$Pairing Live Text View with AppReader App View combines the best of both. Live Text View provides clear visual text; while AppReader adds speech output and highlights the exact text position. This ensures strong reading support while allowing you to stay active in the document and make text edits as needed.$$$$$$Live Text View is an Early Adopter Program Feature$$$Live Text View is available for preview as an Early Adopter Program feature. It currently supports single monitor configurations. It is not available in remote desktop configurations or on touch screen devices.$$$$$$In the ZoomText or Fusion menu; choose Help and then Early Adopter Program.$$$Select the Live Text View check box.$$$Click OK and restart the software.$$$After restarting; Live Text View appears on the Magnifier toolbar tab. It replaces the Navigation button; which is now a submenu in the ZoomText or Fusion menu.$$$$$$Submitting Feedback$$$While evaluating Live Text View; you are encouraged to give feedback about your experience. Feedback can be given whether the feature is enabled or not.$$$$$$To give feedback; do the following:$$$$$$I

Enhancements in ZoomText 2025.2412.25 (December 2024)$$$The following describes improvements made in the December 2024 update.$$$$$$FSCompanion: Your AI-Powered assistant for Learning ZoomText; Fusion; and Microsoft Applications$$$With so many features and keystrokes available between ZoomText; Fusion; Windows; and the various Office apps; it can be challenging to locate the information you need to perform a specific task or even look up a setting or keystroke you no longer recall. The new AI assistant; FSCompanion; lets you ask questions about ZoomText; Fusion and other applications and quickly provides the information you need without you having to search through multiple documents and web pages to find it. Want to know how a particular feature works; or the sequence of keystrokes to perform a specific task in Word? Ask FSCompanion; and the AI searches through various help and training resources in a matter of seconds; and provides the key details in a concise step-by-step format.$$$$$$FSCompanion has been trained using ZoomText help and training data; as well as support content from Microsoft.$$$$$$To open FSCompanion; do one of the following:$$$$$$Click the blue Sparkle button in the upper right corner in the ZoomText or Fusion toolbar.$$$Location of the blue Sparkle button in the upper right corner of the ZoomText toolbar. $$$$$$$$$In the ZoomText or Fusion menu; choose Help > FSCompanion.$$$Accessing the FSCompanion command using the ZoomText menu. $$$$$$You can also access FSCompanion directly in your web browser by going to FSCompanion.ai.$$$Once the FSCompanion page opens; focus is placed in an edit field where you can immediately type a question. After typing a question; press ENTER; and ZoomText or Fusion will automatically read the response as soon as it is displayed. Focus remains in the edit field; so you can ask any follow-up questions. Select the New Conversation button to start a new topic; or select the Feedback button to submit any comments about a response.$$$$$$Here are a few example questions to help get you started.$$$$$$How do I change magnification?$$$How do I toggle speech on and off for Fusion?$$$How do I turn on AppReader?$$$How do I select color modes?$$$Please ask as many questions as you like; and dont hesitate to give feedback on your experiences. The types of questions you ask and the feedback you provide are important as it helps our team train the model to be more accurate.$$$$$$Note: FSCompanion is optimized for English; as it has been trained with English documentation. This means that the answers it gives are based on English keystrokes and terminology. For the best experience; please use it in English. If you ask questions in another language; the keystrokes and descriptions it provides might not be accurate. We are working on supporting additional languages.$$$$$$Other Enhancements$$$After upgrading to Windows 11 version 24H2; some users found that they no longer had magnification or a mouse pointer after starting ZoomText and Fusion 2025. This update solves the problem.$$$AppReader Text View now opens and works correctly when reading Word 365 documents.$$$In AppReaders App View; the UP and DOWN Arrow keys no longer navigated to the previous and next paragraphs in Word 365 and other apps. This update solves the problem.$$$All text is correctly displayed and spoken in App View and Text View when running AppReader in Edge; Chrome; or Firefox.$$$When using Quicken; a personal financial app; transaction fields and menus now read correctly when using mouse echo with ZoomText 2025.$$$Made it easier and faster to use the TAB key to move through and enter a Fix-It command. You can find Fix-It commands in the ZoomText menu under Help > Advanced > Tools.$$$ZoomText has been updated to use .NET 8.

What’s New in ZoomText 2025 Magnifier/Reader$$$This page describes the new features and improvements introduced in ZoomText 2025.$$$$$$Download ZoomText$$$Read previous ZoomText release notes by selecting a version from the list $$$ZoomText 2025$$$ZoomText 2025 Features$$$Update to ZoomText and Fusion 2025$$$To enhance the update process; we made sure that moving from the 2024 to 2025 version is smooth. Upon updating; your startup settings will automatically transfer to 2025. You can check if you are using the latest version by looking at the ZoomText or Fusion toolbar; which now displays the version year.$$$$$$Performance Improvements$$$With the 2025 update; we have implemented key adjustments to enhance performance; particularly in Fusion; but also affecting ZoomText. Some of the most notable improvements include:$$$$$$Better Performance in Office 365 Apps: Navigation and typing in Word are smoother; as well as opening and composing emails in Outlook. Copying and pasting large amounts of text in Word is also much quicker; reducing delays.$$$Enhanced xFont Performance and Reliability: Ongoing improvements to xFont with Fusion continue to deliver a more responsive experience.$$$Faster Start Times: Startup times have improved significantly; especially for users who launch ZoomText or Fusion automatically with Windows.$$$Improved Stability in Windows File Explorer: Both ZoomText and Fusion now offer greater stability when running File Explorer; minimizing slowdowns.$$$Multi-Monitor Changes$$$When operating in multi-monitor mode; ZoomText can signal a monitor switch or insert an artificial boundary between the monitors to help users identify where their mouse is located. Although some found these features beneficial; we discovered that a majority of users preferred retaining the original behavior. Hence; these features are now off after the first installation.$$$The default values for two “Multiple Monitor Options” settings have changed.$$$$$$The “Keep the pointer from crossing the border for” setting is now off. This means you can move the mouse pointer smoothly and instantly between desktops and displays without any delay. Previously; there was a delay (ranging from 0.25 to 2 seconds) when moving the pointer between displays.$$$The “Play sound cues when the pointer touches and crosses the border” setting is now off. You will not hear a sound cue when moving between desktops and displays.$$$If you want to restore these settings; do the following:$$$$$$On the Magnifier toolbar tab; click the Window button and then choose Settings.$$$In the Multiple Monitor Options dialog box; choose Multiple Monitor Options.$$$Select the border crossing and sound cue settings.$$$Click OK.$$$$$$For more details; refer- https://support.freedomscientific.com/Downloads/ZoomText/ZoomTextWhatsNew