Hello James, My first thought is that perhaps your neighbor could provide us with a list of the current magnification utilities and features they are using or that they desire to use, and then those of us who have used Zoom could compare and contrast the features. Do you think that'd be possible?
Generally speaking, Zoom has settings that allow for limited customization such as max and min zoom levels, zoom increments, behavior of the zoomed screen while navigating, etc. There's also an option to magnify just a selected area of the screen and there's a way to magnify whatever is under the mouse cursor, but I've not tried those features. Whenever I use zoom I always combine it with the option to reverse the screen colors, aka "White on Black." While I've never used a third party magnifying or color-toggling utility on any other OS, I've heard from some folks that Apple's implementation of this color reversing feature is less than optimal because it reverses everything on the screen including graphic images, which apparently is not the case with some utilities available on other platforms. Regardless, as with VO these features are free in the MacOS and can quickly be toggled on and off. With regard to which applications will work with Zoom, in my experience Zoom magnifies the entire screen regardless of which Applications are running. I had a trial of MS Office 2011 running on SL for a few weeks while testing it for VO access, and I didn't have any problems using Zoom to magnify the various MS Office applications. I can't imagine that it would not work the same way under Lion. I imagine you've already shared the information provided by Apple but if not, here's a link to Apple's US page giving an overview of the features designed to assist with seeing in Lion. http://www.apple.com/accessibility/macosx/vision.html HTH, Bryan On Sep 5, 2011, at 11:59 AM, James AUSTIN wrote: > I am preparing a quotation for my neighbour who is considering buying a Mac > with related accessories. His situation is rather specialised, but I am > curious to know if Zoom works with applications such as Microsoft Office > please? he does have a Visual Impairment, but may be able to use the > magnification with certain products. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
