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Re: Screen reader reading words as run-on

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From: Vaibhav Saraf
Date: May 2, 2022 5:26PM

Hi Alan,

I have observed this quite often as a user particularly with PDFs designed
in Indesign. Technically this isn't a fault that can be caught by the
automated checkers to what I know.

If you are asking from a remediation point then you would need to use the
"actual text" property to make this work. I remember telling this to one of
my contacts, it was hard to find for them, but ultimately it worked out.

Thanks,
Vaibhav



On Mon, 2 May 2022 at 18:51, Alan Zaitchik < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Listening to a pdf document using nvda (and then jaws) i hear certain
> words as “run on”, e.g. the words “in each” are pronounced as if they were
> one word “ineach”, pronounced as “in-e-ack”. (Jaws handles this example ok
> but runs on other words.) Looking at the content panel in Acrobat it seems
> that the words are discrete with white space between them. Neither Acrobat
> nor PAC3 complain about a missing unicode mapping or anything else.
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Alan
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