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November 17, 2025
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Update on Acrobat does not allow Form Fields to be read.

  • November 17, 2025
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I have been creating and testing Forms for the last year and everthing has been fine.

 

Today when I came in my version of Acrobat was 2025.001.20844. It shows a Read Aloud menu at the top of the frame. It has some nice features but it does not allow a very critical feature - reading Form Fields. I went in and made sure the Preferences under Reading  and made sure the "Read Form Fields" check box is checked. Restarted Acrobat and restarted the Windows 11 pc. That didn't worked. I "Disabled new Acrobat" and that worked. Is there anything I can do to make the form fields work in the new version?

 

Thank you ,

Diana 

3 replies

Adobe Employee
November 18, 2025

Hi Diana, 
Thanks for reporting the issue. Please share a sample form pdf with us so that we can investigate the issue and resolve it in upcoming future release. 

 

Thanks

Rachit

Dave Creamer of IDEAS
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 18, 2025

I did a quick test with one text field, named it, filled in the tooltip area, and put some content in the field. The read aloud skipped it completely. Took about a minute to test it. 

 

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
Dave Creamer of IDEAS
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 18, 2025

If you are testing your PDF/forms for visually-impaired readers, do NOT use the built in "read out load" feature. 

You need a real screen reader such as the open source (free) NVDA screen reader (nvaccess.org). 

Here is a list of others:

https://afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technology/assistive-technology-products/screen-readers

 

If not for this purpose, please disregard this post.

 

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
Thom Parker
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 17, 2025

And yet another reason to NOT use the new UI.   

 

 

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often