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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Oct 14, 2022 12:53PM

Quite simply, ReadAloud does not use the tags tree; it reads content as encoded by the software, not the *logical* content order as read by humans (and as defined for PDF processing purposes by the tags tree).

Often the order in which content is encoded and the logical content order coincide, especially with simpler documents… but often they do not.

Duff.

> On Oct 14, 2022, at 14:32, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> I have not used Read Aloud, but the reviews make for interesting reading. The Firefox extension has an average rating of 4 stars, which sounds good, but 15% of reviewers give it one star. Many of the individual reviews refer to it not reading parts of the content.
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> The Chrome extension also has a four star rating, but 11% of the first 100 reviewers gave it one star and there were quite a few two star ratings. Again, individual reviews refer to it not reading parts of the content.
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> I am going to have a play with it, but I am not particularly hopeful of learning why such a significant number of users have these problems.
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> Steve Green
> Managing Director
> Test Partners Ltd
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