Improved MacOS "spoken content" functionality in Acrobat for Mac
The text reader in MacOS is not a typical screen reader, but it does provide easy, fast access to spoken content from on-screen text. Unfortunately, it does not work with Adobe Acrobat. Ideally, it would speak selected text with a keyboard shortcut, but only reads the document name in Adobe Acrobat. The Acrobat screen reader is difficult to use, does not read selected text, and often fails due to pdf accessibility issues.
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Hi,
I understand the issue faced by you. Read Out Loud is not a screen reader provided by Acrobat but a feature to read the pdf.
You can user VoiceOver on MacOS which is a Screen Reader supported by Apple. You can easily find the shortcuts at https://www.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/_1131.html
I hope this would help you in resolving the issue.
Thanks
Rachit
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Brennan Young commented
Rachit, please offer some documentation about which screen readers support Acrobat Reader. This is very basic info which should be in the VPAT for Acrobat. FWIW my recent explorations show that now VoiceOver kinda works with Acrobat, but definitely has bugs and issues. Where should we report those bugs? Do they belong to Adobe or Apple? Please advise.