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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Aug 22, 2011 3:03PM

You might use it in combination with Reflow - Ctrl + 4 from the number row. This is a toggle and will give you a visual representation of how the document will be read.

If a document has tables they will not be reflowed. If the document has form controls none of the document will be reflowed, but if you are just looking at content it is a useful tool.

Cheers, Karen

Out of Office, Sent from my iPad

On 2011-08-22, at 4:45 PM, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Thanks for your quick reply so if I tell someone they can do a quick and dirty test on a multicolumn document will the built-in speech read across both columns if a screen reader would read across both columns. I.e. if the document has no structure. I really should know this.
>
> Lucy Greco
> Assistive Technology Specialist
> Disabled Student's Program UC Berkeley
> (510) 643-7591
> http://attlc.berkeley.edu
> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Karlen Communications
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 1:04 PM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] built-in speech in Acrobat
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> You can find the Read Out Loud tool in the View menu at the end of the menu
> so just press Up Arrow. It has a sub-menu and the first thing you need to do
> is to activate it. This is not authorization but is just in effect turning
> it on. Once you've finished, remember to go back and deactivate it or turn
> it off.
>
> Read Out Loud is a TTS or Text-to-Speech tool with only a few controls: read
> page and read document. It does depend on the Tags to read the document
> correctly. So it is not as robust as a screen reader or even other TTS tools
> and is meant primarily as a demonstration or idea of what the document would
> be when read using AT. Although you can use it for quality assurance on
> tagged PDF, due to its limitations and the fact that it will often not read
> things that a screen reader will, it should not be the only speech output
> tool used.
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Lucy Greco
> Sent: August-22-11 3:34 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List ( <EMAIL REMOVED> )
> Subject: [WebAIM] built-in speech in Acrobat
>
> Hello:
> never having used it myself I can't remember where to find the Acrobat
> reader speech. As well, I was wondering how dependent is the built-in
> speech on document structure and tagging. Will the built-in speech know how
> to deal with multicolumn text. Thanks for the help Lucy
>
> Lucy Greco
> Assistive Technology Specialist
> Disabled Student's Program UC Berkeley
> (510) 643-7591
> http://attlc.berkeley.edu
> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
>
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