That's one of the reasons that Adobe started funding NVDA (through NVAccess) to address the goals of accessibility support for PDFs in Acrobat Reader. Respective screen readers like JAWS/NVDA for Windows and VoiceOver for Mac are the best available screen reader solutions (primarily for vision disabilities). Read Out Loud was never designed as a complete Accessibility Solution. Many of us in the professional accessibility world have asked Adobe to either fix Read Aloud and make it a full-featured, compliant tool, or remove it from Acrobat entirely.ĭo your testing with a real screen reader:Īnd don't forget to test for enlargement with ZOOM text, keyboard accessibility, and reading order for other AT (assistive technologies).Īccessibility is for all disabilities, not just blindness.Īs Bevi suggested, please use JAWS or NVDA for testing a document for screen reader accessibility. It will give you false positives and false negatives. And it consistently mis-reads basic content.ĭo not waste your time testing a document for screen reader accessibility with Acrobat's Read Aloud tool. It does not have the majority of user controls that real screen readers have.

It does not access and render the content (aka, voice it) per current PDF/UA-1 and WCAG 2.0 accessibility standards. Acrobat's Read Aloud is not a screen reader.

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