New Features of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2025
November 21, 2024
In this session, we discuss and demonstrate new features and enhancements available in JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2025.
Objectives:
We’ll demo new features, plus discuss how to download and install the software.
We’ll provide an overview of the software, plus discuss:
- FSCompanion: your new AI assistant that enables you to ask questions about JAWS and other applications like Word, Outlook, and Excel. Use FSCompanion to learn how to perform a task, look up a setting, or request keystrokes.
- Automatic Language Detection: When reading documents and web pages in multiple languages, you may encounter situations where the correct language tags are not always included, which JAWS relies on to switch between languages. JAWS now automatically detects the language in use and adjusts the voice based on the written language. This feature runs entirely on your computer and does not access the Internet.
- Improvements to navigating and reading EPUB books: EPUB is a popular format for producing textbooks and other digital publications and is supported on a wide range of devices and eBook reading applications.
- Multi-monitor Experience: We’ve turned off the sound effect and artificial border when switching between monitors to streamline the user experience. We’ll discuss how to turn them back on should you prefer them and tell you how to adjust the settings.
Freedom Scientific Presenters:
Elizabeth Whitaker and Rachel Buchanan
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New Features of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2025 (MP3)
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