Contents of Read Out Loud

Read Out Loud

Just say NO!
Can only read a page or entire document.
Cannot get more granular information like table cells, column titles, row headers, headings, nested lists and so forth.
Read Out Loud was added to Acrobat and Reader to give everyone an idea of what it might be like if you had to listen to a PDF document.
It is a minimal Text-to-Speech tool and should NOT be used for validation or depended upon as "the tool" for reading PDF documents!
NVDA is free! It is a full screen reader that can help you examine the more granular pieces of a PDF document.
We've been asking Adobe to remove Read Out Loud since they put it into the user interface.
It is like saying, I'm going to evaluate the structure of a house and I'm going to use a bicycle to do it.