Fee for Accessibility Features?

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September 3, 2018
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Is it correct that one would have to pay to get the accessibility features, such as text-to-speech? That doesn't seem possible. Thanks for any information.

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patriciab44159564Author

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Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions. Each helped point me in the right direction and get me closer to making it work. I was very frustrated and some of your comments were so kind and useable. I also viewed a video to troubleshoot what I was doing wrong. I have a TON of scholarly articles to read (which can be long and boring) and the fact that I am sometimes a slow and distracted reader seemed very challenging. Having the ability to have text read will greatly help. I love that Adobe made this technology available to anyone (universal design) regardless of the reason they need it. Again thank you to each of you for helping me progress down the right path.

try67

Community Expert

Are you able to select the text in your file? If so, copy it and paste into another application (like Notepad). Does it come out legible?

My guess is that your file doesn't contain "real" text, only the image of text. As such, the Text-To-Speech function can't process it.

Adobe does offer a function that converts such images to real text, but that is indeed not free. You would need to purchase Acrobat to gain access to it.

jane-e

Community Expert

The steps from Adobe Help are here:

Accessibility features, Adobe Reader

If you follow those steps and it still doesn't work, please give all the steps you are using.

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patriciab44159564Author

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Thank you so much for that information. It got my so much closer than I have been in the past. I went through the setup wizard and it seemed like I did everything I was supposed to. It's not reading the document outloud. I tried to figure out how to determine if the document is readable, but I can't figure that out. Do you have any suggestions?

try67

Community Expert

Absolutely incorrect.

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patriciab44159564Author

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I'm wondering because I have been trying to access the text-to-speech option. Every time I do, I am directed to a page on which it says it's $14.99 / mo. Maybe I went to the wrong location or I am approaching it the wrong way. Can you give me some guidance?

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What leads you to say that?

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