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November 27, 2025
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NVDA and Adobe Acrobat Pro - crash exception="EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION"

  • November 27, 2025
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Hello, 

I am working on the accessibility of a PDF doc, and once I open it with NVDA, Adobe crashes (see bellow).
This error occurs only with this specific document, and happens every time I try to go through it with NVDA.
My other PDF docs are working fine with NVDA. 

 

There is no update available for Adobe Acrobat (nor NVDA). 
I already restarted my laptop, the issue remains. 

How can I fix this? 

Thank you in advance.

 

 

Adobe error:


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<!DOCTYPE AdobeCrashReport SYSTEM "AdobeCrashReporter.dtd">
<crashreport serviceVersion="4.8.0.7" clientVersion="4.8.0.7" applicationName="Adobe Acrobat" applicationVersion="23.006.20380" build="0" source="Windows-Client-WER" crashType="n/a">
<time year="2025" month="11" day="27" hour="11" minute="21" second="46" timeoffset="60" timezone="Romance Standard Time"/>
<user guid="f2df12e8-3824-4b8b-a6c1-7da07f32a5c2"/>
<system platform="Windows 10 Enterprise" osversion="10.0" osbuild="26100" applicationlanguage="en-us" userlanguage="en-GB" oslanguage="de-DE" ram="32369" machine="11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1145G7 @ 2.60GHz" model="Intel64 Family 6 Model 140 Stepping 1" cpuCount="8" cpuType="8664" cpuFreq="2611 MHz" processorArchitecture="9"/>
<gpu>
<gpuinfo availability="Running/Full Power" adapterCompatibility="Intel Corporation" adapterRAM="1024 MB" caption="Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics" description="Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics" driverDate="20231209000000.000000-000" driverVersion="31.0.101.5081" videoModeDescription="1920 x 1080 x 4294967296 colors" pnpDeviceID="PCI&#92;VEN_8086&#38;DEV_9A49&#38;SUBSYS_00501E26&#38;REV_01&#92;3&#38;11583659&#38;0&#38;10" installedDisplayDrivers="igd10iumd64.dll,igd12umd64.dll,igdumdim64.dll"/>
</gpu>
<crash exception="EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION" exceptionCode="0xc0000005" instruction="0x00000000629F2FB5">
<backtrace crashedThread="0">
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<register name="EFL" value="0x0000000000010217"/>
<register name="LastExceptionToRip" value="0x0000000000000000"/>
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1 reply

Participant
November 27, 2025

UPDATE
The error seems to be related to the table of contents / TOC.
Going through another past doc, it works fine for the first 2 pages, and I get this crash once I finish the first TOC line. 

Before, I had a similar issue with Adobe crashing when using NVDA to go through form checkboxes. At the time, I fixed it by removing the form tags. 

However, I cannot remove the TOC from the accessibility tags this time.

Thank you

Participant
November 27, 2025

UPDATE: SOLVED
This was happening due to an error in the TOC tagging I missed during my access check.
The TOC title was inside a TOCI tag, inside a Link tag without a link - OBJR.

If this error occurs to anyone else: 
1 - make sure the title of your table of contents is outside the TOC tag. I made mine a H1. 

2 - delete the empty TOCI and Link tags.
And it should fix this crash.

Meenakshi_Negi
Legend
November 27, 2025

Hi Raquel33759459ykdr,

 

Thank you for reaching out, and sorry for the trouble caused.

 

As the issue occurs with a particular document, it could be a file-specific issue. Could you please share the PDF with us?

Also, please share the current version number of both the application and the OS on the machine.

 

Thanks,

Meenakshi