Changing How Adobe Read Aloud Reads Text

Question

I am working in Adobe Acrobat Pro, and I'm learning about tagging pdfs so they can be read by screen readers. I'm using the Adobe read aloud feature, and I'm wondering how I can change how it reads the text in a couple of places in a document.

1. Adobe read aloud reads the year "2024" as "two zero two four." What is the best way for me to get it to read the year as "twenty twenty-four"?

2. Adobe read aloud reads the acronym "ELA" as "ela." Is there any way I can get it to read the letters of the acronym separately as "E L A"?

Thanks for any help you can give!

Dinah248014004akx · Answer

I've read some other posts about accessibility on here, and some have commented that Adobe read aloud is not the best screen reader. So I've downloaded NVDA so that I can hear how my documents are read by a more highly regarded screen reader.

I wonder why Adobe hasn't put more into developing their screen reader. It seems that developing a solid screen reader for accessibility would be a natural extension of everything they already do.

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