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Screen Reader sounds ALL underscores in a fillable form, HELP!

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Oct 02, 2024 Oct 02, 2024

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I have a fillable formin which each field has an underscore.   I've tagged the doc, and been through all accessibility processes.  When I test it with the screen reader, it will read "underscore underscore underscore......" endlessly till it reaches the last one.  Outside of recreating the do without the underscores, is there a way to get the reader to ignore them altogether?  I'm unable to select and label them as artifacts in the reading order panel.  I also do not have access to the source file.  Any suggestion is welcome, thanks!

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Which screenreader are you using for testing? (And what operating system and version of Acrobat.)

 

Do the fields themselves have underscores in them--the field name, contents, or auto-filled contents--or was it the text that was there before you ran Automatically Detect Form Fields?

 

Most assistive technology, including screen readers, enter into a "forms mode" wherein they ignore static text on the page and read only the fields. Therefore the underscores from before form field detection are ignored, or are supposed to be.

Pariah Burke | Trainer, Author, Instructional Designer | InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Photoshop, Firefly, Audition, Canva, Generative AI | Accessibility / Section 508, Publishing, Generative AI, EPUB, IFX, more.

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I'm using Acrobat's embedded reader. BTW, the acrobat version is pro 2024.003.20112

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If you're on Windows, try using NVDA https://www.nvaccess.org/download/ . If you're on a Mac, activate the built-in VoiceOver screenreader and try that. That will help us figure out if it's Acrobat-centric problem.

 

 

Pariah Burke | Trainer, Author, Instructional Designer | InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Photoshop, Firefly, Audition, Canva, Generative AI | Accessibility / Section 508, Publishing, Generative AI, EPUB, IFX, more.

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