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From: Jonathan Metz
Date: Jul 17, 2013 12:35PM

Howdy,

I’m trying to use NVDA to read a PDF I’ve OCRed and tagged. I can’t figure out how to get NVDA to read the whole document to me. I hit ‘h’ on the keyboard and nothing happens. I press and hold Caps lock and try any of the keyboard controls provided from WebAim, but to no avail. Instead, it simply tells me that I’m holding down the Caps Lock or Keyboard Insert key.

NVDA will announce the title of the document and the application (either Reader or Acrobat) and then that’s it.

If I hover my mouse over a paragraph, it reads that no problem.

The second paragraph, which has some jumbled words that I’ve added a Span tag with Actual Text is never read.

It reads an H2 that starts with a Span tag with Actual Text.

When browsing in the Tree view, it reads all the banker boxes without fail.

When I use Adobe’s Read Out Loud ‘feature’, Acrobat force closes.

Is this an NVDA issue, an adobe issue, or CEBKAC (Critical Error Between Keyboard and Chair)? I’m getting really frustrated.

Thanks for all your help, in advance.

Best,
Jon