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Re: Screen reader reading words as run-on

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From: Andrews, David B (DEED)
Date: May 3, 2022 7:18AM

This problem has been around for years! And the cause isn't clear. Visually, everything seems ok. If you review the screen with the screen reader on, the words seem run together. Often if you change the reading order, this clears it up! Usually the default order is top to bottom, left to right, and you can generally change it to infer reading order from document, with no ill effect.

Dave



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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