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Re: Acrobat Read Out Loud mistakenly reads letter as Roman Numeral

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From: Julie Romanowski
Date: Jul 17, 2014 1:03PM

Of course Read Out Loud shouldn't be used as a substitute for screen reader testing. It's a text-to-speech tool, not a screen reader. However, that doesn't mean it can't be a valuable tool. There are people in my organization with various cognitive disabilities who use text-to-speech software to help better understand information presented in documentation. TextAloud is the text-to-speech software we provide to our employees who need this type of accommodation. However, many of them use Read Out Loud when reading PDFs, as it does a better job in identifying text correctly. For example, Read Out Loud will read Roman Numerals as numbers while TextAloud doesn't.

On a side note, I can't replicate the issue Jordan mentioned. I've tested several different ways, and Read Out Loud always reads the D in "Medicare Part D" as "D".