In fact, I kind of wanted it to stop asking. I can finally enjoy using Acrobat again.I’m glad you reminded me! Microsoft, in particular, takes its responsibilities very seriously. I think you’re actually agreeing with my point, which is that Acrobat’s behavior is not well-chosen as a response to use of a voice-recognition program.Adobe 11 had a patch on 12-20-13 so the problem returned and you will have to make these changes again.Thanks for this but some additional comments here and 1 question:Oh my.
I’ll be interested to see if it behaves differently in Acrobat 11.I love a site that give you the answer and not long blogs of meaningless guesses, thanks!Worked perfectly, thanks heaps for sharing, most appreciated!It is ridiculous that Adobe won’t install the capability to turn off this tagging BS. I want to disable voice over and not have to bother with command F5 – and not hear any voice. YES! It really is annoying, isn’t it? I have Acrobat XI and what worked for me was to go to PREFERENCES, click on ACCESSIBILITY and uncheck the box that says “Enable assistive technology support.” I hope it helps others.No way! How do I turn off the voice/accessibility feature in Mac OSX? In the Summary pane, click Configure Universal Access in the Options section. Then, the next time I started Acrobat, it brought up the Accessibility Setup Assistant. I wish Adobe would put in the checkmark to disable things so we wouldn’t have to go to all this effort!THANK YOU! You can turn it on and off in iTunes. Your fix took care of the problem.
May the gods bring you many gifts!I’m glad it helped! Thanks for mentioning it!Adobe does not assume your blind because your using dragon, Why would ablind person use Dragon? Anyone else?As a handicapped individual who requires accessibility all over the place, and for whom voice rec software has allowed me to work a full day and support myself, I found this incredibly annoying on many levels. Every PDF.
My kids accidently turned it on and now it constantly speaks the UI.
[] Do not show this message again.”I put a checkmark in the box and clicked OK and have not been asked again about preparing a PDF for Reading Mode. Probably not. Hi Guys, I turned on my computer (Which my girl friend also uses) and know a black line surrounds everything that i click on and my computer says everything that i do. Really annoying, isn’t it?This worked six months ago but the problem returned. If you have any doubts, ask for help!The next time I opened a PDF after renaming all three files, a window came up with this warning: “This version of the Adobe Reader does not support screen readers. It worked perfectly! Thank you for sharing your wisdom freely!The pop up allows you to check off the accessibility feature [supposedly], “…(Do not show this dialog again)” but it doesn’t work. I probably accidentally hit the shortcut key to turn on Read Out Loud but when tried to turn it off via shortcut key or in Preferences, Acrobat crashed (could just be because it is so old and I am running Windows 10). Windows users need to pay hundreds of dollars to buy a separate software. Good luck!This just started for me in Adobe XI Standard. That might help keep things settled down.After update to 11.08, so far the slowness has not returned and I cannot find in the Adobe folder or on my computer. I suppose sometimes it can be overdone. ADOBE, get your act togetherAwesome job. There are hints that it might have appeared in Preferences around the 11.0.4 update last fall. Thank you! Including saying every god damn letter as i type it now!!! I can’t believe Adobe does not have a control setting for this!I’m running into this again on my office computer after flattening it and reinstalling programs. Then press JAWS + z + z until you hear "The virtual cursor will be turned off for all applications." VoiceOver is a great feature for blind Mac users. Adjust forms options: Make sure that the focus is on the top toolbar, then press JAWS + v .