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

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From: Jordan Wilson
Date: Jul 17, 2014 2:25PM

Interesting Julie - I went back and tested on PC after you mentioned it
spoke the D correctly for you.
On my Mac its read as 500, but on the PC it is read as D as you mentioned.
(Both using Read Out Loud) That's better than nothing - at least for the
majority of users its not a problem.

Thanks for the input everyone!
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On 7/17/14 3:03 PM, "Julie Romanowski"
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>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.
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