Read out loud stops after each paragraph even when I’ve chosen whole document

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Read out loud stops after each paragraph, and will not advance to the next one. Nor can I select multiple paragraphs for read out loud to read. When I choose read until the end of document, it wants to begin at the very beginning of the document instead of where I am trying to read from. This is very frustrating. I have not found any other people in the forum with this issue. I am wondering if perhaps I need to re-export to word reformat the document, and then re-PDF it?

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com · Answer

Acrobat's built in Read Out Loud is not a screen reader.

It is an antiquated piece of junk that Adobe acquired years ago and tossed into Acrobat.

Don't expect it to perform as a real screen reader does.

And definitely do not use it to test accessibility of a document; you'll get false positives and false negatives.

Not worth your time.

Instead, use a real screen reader, such as JAWS or NVDA (which is free from https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2019-1-1-update-available-for-download/ And learn how to use it: see our list of free tutorials in one of our recent blogs, https://www.pubcom.com/blog/2019_04-05/checking-with-screenreaders.shtml

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