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sathianarayananM
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March 4, 2026
Question

New Adobe Acrobat is not reading the text properly as per tag order and skip reading link text and expansion text of any text while activate Read Out Loud. Please help. Thanks.

  • March 4, 2026
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I am actually design and creating pages in adobe illustrator and saving as pdf. This PDF I am trying to make it accessibility. I am using auto tag to make the tagging all the images and text. I have given alt text to the images and expansion text to any of the abbreviations. for example I have set expansion text as carbon dioxide wherever my text is in CO2. Old Acrobat is reading properly but New Adobe Acrobat is not reading the text properly as per tag order and skip reading link text and expansion text of any text while activate Read Out Loud. 

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    Thom Parker
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 4, 2026

    I agree that you should just use the old UI.  I only use the new UI for testing, when someone reports that a feature doesn’t work right on the new UI. There are too many problems to consider using it to get any work done. 

     

    Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often
    merigens6
    Participant
    March 4, 2026

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    creative explorer
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 4, 2026

    @sathianarayananM if the new Acrobat is disabled, and it works perfectly on the classic interface, why don’t you just use that interface. My Acrobat and my wife is set to the classic interface, less issues

    m
    Legend
    March 4, 2026

    Hi ​@sathianarayananM

    Thanks for reaching out, and sorry for the troubled experience. 

    Could you share the document with us? If you can't share the file publicly, upload files to any cloud drive and share the link via private message.

    To send a Private Message - Click on Profile Avatar and on the profile page, you will see a button “Send message.”


    In the meantime, to verify document accessibility, we recommend reviewing the tag structure in the Tags panel and using the Accessibility Checker.

    As a best practice, accessibility validation should be confirmed using Acrobat’s Accessibility Checker and a screen reader, as Read Out Loud is not intended to be a complete accessibility validation tool.

     

    ~Tariq