Get the Home edition of ZoomText

• Set up your Home Use account
• Download and install ZoomText Home Edition
• Set up ZoomText
• Learn more and get help

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Set up your Home Use account

1. Go to the Freedom Scientific higher education page.
2. In the "College Email Address" text box, type your IU username followed by @iu.edu (do this no matter what your email address is). Press Enter.
3. The page will refresh and will display congratulation text below where you put in your email. Select Click to continue registration.
4. On the registration page, fill in the following required fields:
   • Email
   • Confirm email
   • First Name
   • Last Name
   • Country
   • Postal Code
   • Password: Your password must be eight characters or longer, with at least one letter and one number.
   • Confirm password
5. Click Register. The page will reload and become a registration confirmation. Close your browser.
6. Go to your IU email account, and look for an email message from Freedom Scientific SW Licensing with a subject line of "Confirm your Freedom Scientific portal account". In the message, select the Confirm your portal account here link.
7. A web browser will load and thank you for confirming your email. Close the browser.

Your Home Use account is now registered, and you can now download and activate the Home Use version of ZoomText.

Download and install ZoomText Home Edition

1. Go to Freedom Scientific's sign-in page.
2. Type your IU email address and the password you just created, and select Sign In.
3. You will now be on the "My Products" page. Click Add ZoomText.
4. Select the ZoomText Magnifier/Reader Home Annual link.
5. The page will change to "Product details", listing the product name, when it will expire, the serial number, and a text field in which to enter notes.
   1. If you want to associate a note with the installation, type it into the "Notes" field, and then select Add Notes.
   2. Click Activate this computer.
6. A "File Download" notification pop-up will appear asking to download the software onto your computer. Click OK.
7. The "Opening [Your name]ZoomTextLicenseActivator.exe" window will appear. Select the Save File button.
8. Once the download is complete, press Ctrl-j to bring up the downloads window for your web browser.
9. Locate the [Your name]ZoomTextLicenseActivator.exe file and double-click it to launch the installer.
10. The "Setup ZoomText for [Your Name]" window will appear, saying "ZoomText is not installed on this computer. Do you want to install and then activate for use?" Select Yes, Install and Activate.
11. User Account Control will ask if you want to install Freedom Scientific ZoomText 2019. Select Yes.
12. The ZoomText install window will appear. Check the box to accept the license agreement, and then click Install.
13. The installer will run on your computer; this could take a couple minutes. When the install finishes, the install window will say "ZoomText Install and Activation have completed successfully." Click Close.
14. The ZoomText setup information window will ask to restart your computer. Click Yes.

Your computer will restart, after which the download and installation of ZoomText will be complete.

Set up ZoomText

1. Log back into your computer.
2. When you get to the desktop, ZoomText will launch automatically. Once ZoomText loads, you'll be greeted by a "Welcome to ZoomText 2019" message with a link to the Getting Started Guide, as well as a listing of the common keyboard commands. Close the welcome window, and the Startup wizard will appear.
3. On the first screen of the Startup wizard, set your options for language, synthesizer, and voice.
4. Once you have selected a value for each setting, select Next.
5. On the second screen, choose how you want to start and run ZoomText. You can choose to enable either or both of the following:
   • Enable ZoomText in the Windows logon prompt
   • Start ZoomText automatically when Windows starts

   After selecting the checkboxes you want, select Next.

6. The third screen will ask if you want to help solve problems that may occur by letting ZoomText send error reports. If so, check the box for Enable ZoomText Error Reporting.
7. Click Finish.

Your Home Use copy of ZoomText is now set up and running on your computer.

Learn more and get help