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 Verhoeven


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