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From: Steve Green
Date: May 2, 2022 5:40PM

I had this on a document last week. I found that if I used Acrobat's "Edit text & images" feature to make any change in a text frame, such as adding one character and deleting it, screen readers then read all the text in that frame properly.

Unfortunately, editing a text frame means you have to re-tag it, but that only takes a few minutes and it's a cleaner solution than using Actual Text.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Vaibhav Saraf
Sent: 03 May 2022 00:27
To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Screen reader reading words as run-on

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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