Problem

A ZoomText customer wishes to become familiar with the status of ZoomText support a touch screen devices.

Applies to

1. ZoomText

Resolution

1. Touch screen support is available on any computer that has at least a five point touch panel.
2. The following touch gestures are available on touch supported systems.
   
3. This information also features in the ZoomText User Guide in the chapter: Using ZoomText on a Touch Screen.

Touch modes

Two touch modes exist for carrying out different kinds of commands: 

Windows Touch Mode

This mode passes all gestures to the Windows system and underlying applications.  Whilst in this mode you cannot activate ZoomText specific gestures.

The icon below denotes that ZoomText is in Windows Touch mode

ZoomText Touch Mode

This mode allows access to various ZoomText specific features. 

Touch Gestures

Please find below touch gestures, please remember that the Touch Icon must be in ZoomText Touch Mode when performing these gestures.

1. Double-tap with three fingers.
   
2. Magnification is temporarily turned off and the view locator
   
3. appears. 
4. To move the view port, hold one finger inside the view port and
   
5. drag it to the desired location.
   
6. To exit View Mode and be moved to the new viewport location,
   
7. double-tap with one finger.
   
8. To exit View Mode and move to the previous viewport location,
   
9. double-tap with three fingers.
   

1. On the Reader toolbar tab, choose SpeakIt.
   
2. The SpeakIt tool becomes active and sizing handles appear on the
   
3. zoom window frame.
   
4. To speak a single word, tap on the word.
   
5. To speak a block of words, drag diagonally with one finger to
   
6. highlight the words you want to have spoken. When you
   
7. complete the drag, all highlighted text will be spoken.
   
8. To exit the SpeakIt tool, double-tap with three fingers.
   

1. Open the document, web page or email that you wish to read.
   
2. Start AppReader using one of the following two methods:
   - To start reading at any word: Double-tap with one finger on the word where you want to start reading.
   - To start reading from the location of the text cursor, double-tap with two fingers, AppReader begins reading.
   
   
3. 3. To start and stop reading or navigate/read by word, line, sentence and paragraph, use the AppReader Reading Gestures listed in the table below.
   
4. 4. To speak a block of words, drag diagonally with one finger to highlight the words you want to have spoken. When you complete the drag, all highlighted text will be spoken.
   
5. To exit AppReader, double-tap with three fingers.
   
   When AppReader exits, the cursor is automatically positioned at the last word that was highlighted in AppReader (if a cursor exists in the application).

Note:

Repeating this gesture on the same word within two seconds or less will cycle through

the following options: say/spell/military spell.  Resets after a lapse of more than two seconds.