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During the installation of JAWS® and Fusion® on Windows® 10 and earlier, install a Video Accessibility driver component into the operating system to gather accessibility information. Microsoft have created newer technology known as Accessibility Monitor to replace the Video Accessility driver.  In late 2022 Microsoft announced plans to stop supporting the use of the Video Accessibility driver technology.  We have since observed this has taken place as of Windows 11 24H2.

In anticipation of the above JAWS/ZoomText/Fusion 2022 an above will not install the Video Accessibility driver on Windows 11.  The new Accessibility Monitor will instead be responsible for gathering the necessary accessibility information in a more in-depth and higher level way to make Freedom Scientific software more efficient.

The older Video Accessibility driver operates on Windows version prior to 24H2 after which its operation cannot be guarunteed due to Microsoft retiring the technoloy.

Accessibility Driver installation

To install the video accessibility driver on Windows 11:

1. Click the link to download and save the Video Accessibility Driver installer.
   
2. To get the path for the installer highlight the installer then press control+shift+f10, then select Copy As Path. 
3. Open Command Propmpt as an administrator.
   
4. Then enter the first path of the command below, then paste in the path to the installer and press ENTER to run the command:
   
   msiexec.exe /i [Path-to-Video-Accessibility-Installer]
   
   
5. Follow the on screen instructions to complete the install.
6. Then restart the computer to allow changes to take effect.