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Reading a pdf with a screen reader, Read a pdf with read out loud – Adobe Acrobat 8 3D User Manual

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ADOBE ACROBAT 3D VERSION 8

User Guide

Reflow a tagged PDF

Do one of the following:

Choose View > Zoom > Reflow.

Press Ctrl+4/Command+4.

If the Page Display setting for the document is Two-Up before you choose Reflow view, the Page Display setting
automatically becomes Single Page when the document is reflowed. If the Page Display setting for the document is
Two-Up Continuous before you choose Reflow view, the Page Display setting automatically becomes Continuous
when the document is reflowed.

Return to unreflowed view

When in Reflow view, do one of the following:

Choose View > Zoom > Reflow.

Press Ctrl+4/Command+4.

Reading a PDF with a screen reader

Acrobat supports assistive software and devices—such as screen readers and screen magnifiers—that enable visually
impaired users to interact with computer applications. When assistive software and devices are in use, Acrobat may
add temporary tags to open PDFs to improve their readability. Use the Accessibility Setup Assistant to improve how
Acrobat interacts with the types of assistive software and devices that you use. When using a screen reader, you can
change your reading settings for the current document by pressing Shift+Ctrl+5 (Windows) or Shift+Command+5
(Mac OS).

See the documentation for your assistive software or device, or contact the vendor for more information about
system requirements, compatibility requirements, and instructions for using this software or device with Acrobat.

Read a PDF with Read Out Loud

The Read Out Loud feature reads aloud the text in a PDF, including the text in comments and alternate text descrip­
tions for images and fillable fields. In tagged PDFs, content is read in the order in which it appears in the document’s
logical structure tree. In untagged documents, the reading order is inferred, unless a reading order has been specified
in the Reading preferences.

Read Out Loud uses the available voices installed on your system. If you have SAPI 4 or SAPI 5 voices installed from
text-to-speech or language applications, you can choose them to read your PDFs.

Note: Read Out Loud isn’t a screen reader, and some operating systems may not support it.

Activate or deactivate Read Out Loud

You must activate Read Out Loud before you can use it. You can deactivate Read Out Loud to free system resources
and improve performance of other operations.

Do one of the following:

Choose View > Read Out Loud > Activate Read Out Loud or press Shift+Ctrl+Y/Shift+Command+Y.

Choose View > Read Out Loud > Deactivate Read Out Loud or press Shift+Ctrl+Y/Shift+Command+Y.

Read a PDF with Read Out Loud

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Navigate to the page that you want to read.

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