FarSight Reader

Free open source Windows desktop screen reader for the vision impaired or low vision readers, and anyone who is squinting to read some on-screen content that is just too dang small. Works like a physical magnifying glass.

The clip below shows Farsight running on top of Visual Studio. Works with any Windows app, whatever is on the desktop.

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Whatever is under the Farsight viewport window is magnified. Farsight viewport size and magnification factor adjustable by the user.

FarSight is a modern, bug-fixed, Win64 fork of the legacy Win32 open source Zoom+ magnifier originally developed by Gipsysoft. We have a roadmap to integrate Text-to-Speech (TTS), so that Farsight can magnify or speak the contents in the magnifier. And, to color convert to assist the different types of colorblind users.