Hi All,  Does any one have any comments or experience on the product
detailed below?  Gordon

Dear list members, Freedom Scientific (Hneter-Joyce in the past), has
released MAGic 8 for Windows 95/98/ME. This is the first MAGic release,
that like LunarPlus, LP-Windows with speech and ZoomText level 2,
include low vision screen reading (speech support). MAGic 8 is a
professional screen magnifier, that magnifies all your Windows 9x/ME
applications from 2 to 16 times in any display resolution up to 32 color
depth. Important magnification options: - 7 different magnification
modes; - Independent mouse magnification; - Very good font smoothing; -
Very good tracking on Windows events; - Easy manual scrolling or panning
by using your keyboard; - Color filtering; - Advanced mouse setinng
options. Important speech options: - Speak aloud most Windows events
like menus, controls and dialog boxes; - Typing echo and mouse echo; -
Document Read to speak aloud E-Mail messages, documents and web pages.
Nice in MAGic is, that it reads table column by column. A lot of web
pages on the Internet include tables for layout reasons and other screen
magnifiers read tables row by row. Reading column by column highly
improves accessibility to web pages. All software products include known
and unknown bugs. MAGic 8 include some major known bugs that will be
solved in future patches. For more details about MAGic 8 features, known
bugs and a free demo please visit The Screen Magnifiers Homepage at
http://www.magnifiers.org And follow the links there. Regards Peter
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