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Re: Screen reader reading words as run-on

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From: Karen McCall
Date: May 3, 2022 3:50AM

I also see this when using Adobe on-board OCR tool, yet when I simply open the document in Fine Reader, save it as a searchable PDF and try reading it again, it reads as it should. I avoid using the Actual Text attribute as much as I can due to the accessibility barriers.

Cheers, Karen

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Duff Johnson
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Screen reader reading words as run-on

Can the file be provided for inspection?

Duff.

> On May 2, 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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