Category: ZoomText Power Tip

Program echo determines what items are spoken by ZoomText speech as you navigate and use your applications. These items include: window titles, menus, dialogs, list views, tree views, and text that the cursor moves through.

In ZoomText, cursor enhancements make it easy to locate and follow the text cursor. Choose from several high visibility locators that mark the cursor position without obscuring the surrounding text.

When you install a new version of ZoomText, the Startup Wizard opens automatically to help you get set up. In the May update of ZoomText 2025, we’ve added easy-to-use pages where you can choose your magnification, visual enhancements, and speech settings.

Pointer enhancements make it easy to locate and follow the mouse pointer. You can adjust the size and color of the pointer to emphasize its position on the screen. You can choose from 15 different sizes and fine-tune the magnified pointer to meet your needs.

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. For example, use Live Text View to read text that uses decorative fonts and italic styles. While these styles work well for calling attention to the text, they can be difficult to read. Live Text View makes this text readable in the view window.

With so many features and keystrokes available between ZoomText, Windows, and the various Office apps, it can be challenging to locate the information you need to perform a specific task or look up a keystroke. The new AI assistant, FSCompanion, lets you ask questions about ZoomText and other applications and quickly provides the answers. To launch FSCompanion from ZoomText, Click the blue Sparkle button in the upper right corner in the ZoomText or Fusion toolbar. In the ZoomText or Fusion menu, choose Help > FSCompanion. You can also access FSCompanion directly in your web browser by going to FSCompanion.ai.

AppReader is a ZoomText feature that reads documents, web pages, and other content aloud.

Based on user feedback, we’ve changed how the Quick Access Bar works in ZoomText 2024. It is no longer docked on the right side of the screen when you start ZoomText, but you can access it via the keyboard and mouse combination CAPS LOCK+RIGHT CLICK button. This enables you to display it when needed, and keeps it out of the way when you don’t.

ZoomText offers a feature called xFont Bold, designed to enhance text readability by adding boldness, particularly beneficial for individuals needing extra contrast. This setting can be applied to text in various areas including Office 365 apps, ZoomText and Fusion settings, and the Windows desktop. Users can easily toggle xFont Bold on or off using two keystrokes: CAPS LOCK+B and CAPS LOCK+SPACEBAR, M, B. This feature is especially helpful for testing its effectiveness on personal readability preferences.