Freedom scientific a Vispero brand in this session, we're going to go
over a new feature added to ZoomText.
And fusion 2021 in may update of 2021.
And that is the quick access bar.
Now the quick access bar is designed primarily for somebody who is looking
at the screen, probably using a mouse and wants to be able to get
access to some of the features.
In ZoomText or fusion without having to learn a keystroke or having
to go all the way back to the UI.
You just want to be able to pop up something quickly, make your
selection, and then go right back to where you were working.
So I've got ZoomText.
Uh, installed on my computer here and on the UI, we have put
an indicator for it in the top, right next to the microphone.
There is.
Now, if you're running ZoomText, a green arrow, if you're running fusion, it's
a red arrow and that is an indicator to get to the quick access bar.
And it shows you here quick access bar can be.
Brought up at any time using the capsule lock key in conjunction
with a right mouse click.
You can also do this with a keystroke, which is the layered
command caps lock plus space bar.
And then the letter Q.
Now, if you're running fusion, it could be insert plus space bar in the letter.
Q if you're in desktop layout.
But, uh, I think most users who have a mouse will get used to the
capsule, holding it down and doing the right mouse click to bring it up.
You can also just click on this item on the UI window
and you will find the feature.
So when I bring it up, you notice that.
First of all the main UI of ZoomText went away.
So if this one, if this quick access bar is on the screen,
the main UI will go away.
Um, because you probably wouldn't be using both at the same time.
Now let's explore the quick access bar.
First of all, I'm going to close it down and I'm going to bring it up
using the keystroke caps lock and then the mouse click right mouse click.
All right.
So you see it popped right up and it popped up at the location of the mouse.
So if I close it and move the mouse over here and do it over
here, it comes up on the left side.
So wherever you are focused on, when you have magnification high,
uh, it'll come up where you want.
Now, the other thing that you might want to be aware of is that.
There's two views to this, the very narrow view top to bottom.
It's a small window and it contains basically eight controls.
This first one I have is for increasing and decreasing magnification.
That's really one control that you have to go into.
Then there's one for turning speech on and off one for speeding
it up and slowing it down.
Uh, a color button, app reader.
Voice assistant a microphone.
So if you haven't, if you don't want to use the wake up command, uh,
through speech and you don't want to use the keystroke to bring it up,
you can come to the quick access bar and click that to do a voice command.
And then I have one X toggle.
So there's eight items that can go on here.
And then there's another item at the bottom for show shortcut name.
So that's the thing that opens that window up.
Let me bring it back up, opens that window up for us.
And, uh, again, uh, in, when it's opened, you also have
something called customize.
So we'll come back to this in a minute.
First of all, let's just see how it works.
So when I click on color, okay.
That changes my color settings.
It brings the color ones in I'll turn on speech, voice enabled, and then notice
mouse echo has now appeared in my list.
So I had mouse echo, but if speech is turned off, mouse echo disappears since.
You wouldn't be getting most echo on and off if your speech is turned off.
So I'll turn speech back on voice enabled.
And now if I just click on the desktop, that window goes away and
I can go back to doing what I'm working on by bringing it back up,
caps lock, right mouse click, and it's right back where my mouse was
and I can make other adjustments.
Okay.
So let's look at settings, I'll turn color disabled,
and I'll disable the speech.
Voice disabled.
And I'll go into the settings, the customize now in here, uh, we see, we
have a menu, a heading at the top here included shortcuts eight of eight.
So you have eight options that you can include and you can't add any once.
You've got eight already in, so if you want to change some of
these, you'd want to delete one.
Uh, you can also choose to move things around in your list if you'd
rather position them differently.
So toggle zoom and one X that's something I use quite a bit.
I'm going to right.
Click on that item and I'm going to say, move it up.
I can right.
Click again, move it up so I can move that into, uh, a different location.
And I probably want to bring that right up next to the zoom.
So I'm going to go all the way to the top with that one.
All right.
So now I've got my zoom.
Controls.
And then the zoom and one X, the next thing I'm going to
do is I'm going to delete one, maybe that I wouldn't be using.
So I'm going to delete the mouse echo.
You can do it two ways on the right side.
There's an X.
You can just click on that or you can right.
Click and choose delete, and that one goes away.
And then I'm going to say, okay, So I've saved those settings and there we are.
There's my toggle.
One X is right underneath magnification.
Now I go back down and I'm going to open settings back up and
we have two things in there.
Preferences and shortcuts.
So I clicked on preferences and in preferences automatically hide QA.
So this means that if I click away.
It goes away.
If I uncheck that it will not hide it.
If I click somewhere else, it'll leave it on top.
Uh, it's not something I want to leave on top.
I only bring it up once in a while, so I let it stay on automatically hide.
You can also change your colors and you can change the thickness of
the border around the item to make it easier to spot when it pops up.
I'll make it a little thicker and I'll say, okay.
And now the borders a little bit thicker and it's easier to show up.
And then if you want to add a shortcut, as long as you have less than eight
in your list, you can come down and click on add shortcuts and you
can pick one to include in there.
So maybe focus enhancements is one that I would want to get, and that
toggles the focus enhancements on and off, I'm going to say, okay, And now
it's showing on the bottom of my list.
I can move it up if I choose, or I can just say, okay.
And there it is.
So now I've got focus enhancements here.
And if I click on that, I'll toggle it on and off as well.
So that's a bit about quick access bar.
We hope you give this a try and you may find this a little
better than going back to the UI or learning those keystrokes.
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