If your Mac desktop, Mac Mini or Macbook Pro or Air won’t stop reading or talking, you can turn off this feature using the following method. Adobe assumes your using screen reading software for the blind, e.g. I'm using Acrobat Standard 8.1.2. How do you turn off the scroll lock on a mac book pro? I suppose sometimes it can be overdone. I can finally enjoy using Acrobat again.I’m glad you reminded me! Can't turn it off in their account. 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. On your Mac, go to Apple menu -> System preferences. You’re going to be deliberately breaking features that are deeply baked into the programs.
To permanently remove any markup, accept or reject changes and delete comments. Are you listening Adobe?
I’d have to click “Cancel” on this dialog:“This document is untagged and must be prepared for reading. Please be aware that the programs may break or there might be unwanted side effects if you try this yourself. As you said it is a niggling annoyance. This fix worked like a charm! I have to go turn off the same prompt, again, after installing Acrobat on a new computer. Searching, I cam across this thread and the advice to rename the offending api files worked like a charm. 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. 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. :o(This still comes up on my systems – it must return after updates are installed. I made a change to the program and I can't undo it. While the document is being analyzed, your assistive technology will not be able to interact with this application.“Reading Order: Infer reading order from document (recommended)“Reading Mode Options: Read the currently visible pages only.”That’s a sweet, generous offer by Acrobat but, hey, call me ungrateful – I actually did not want each PDF read out loud to me. Seriously. Strange. I can’t tell when that option was added to Acrobat XI but I would swear it wasn’t there until fairly recently. Every time I opened a PDF file in Acrobat, a window would appear to notify me that I was reading an Untagged Document that had to be prepared for reading out loud.Every time.
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! But its OS X built-in feature.Lately every time I turn my computer on, the voice over preps me until I turn it off using command F5. I have not used the change to .bk tactic, will see if the problem has gone away for good patch 11.09.Take a look at Preferences / Accessibility – there’s now a box that can be unchecked to “Enable assistive technology support.” It appears Adobe finally gave us the ability to turn off the accessibility features – apparently in an update in the last few months. Thanks for mentioning it!Adobe does not assume your blind because your using dragon, Why would ablind person use Dragon? If that’s really the answer, that’s good news! Turns out Adobe X1 updated to 11.0.4 recently so the ritual of renaming the three files had to be repeated. Microsoft, in particular, takes its responsibilities very seriously. However, I do not see the slowness problem has returned.
Adjust forms options: Make sure that the focus is on the top toolbar, then press JAWS + v . One more niggling annoyance solved!Oh, and don’t be surprised if you have to do this repeatedly. Definitely one of my least favorite “features”!Works perfect on Adobe Acrobat X! Despite this complaint, Microsoft and Adobe deserve full credit for everything they have done to make their products and services accessible. Disgraceful. Turn off the virtual cursor: Press JAWS + z until you hear "Use virtual PC cursor off." This was never an issue until recently. It keeps popping up with every pdf I opened.Turning off the voice recognition software (in my case, Microsoft Narrator) works for me.Thank you for finally easing my suffering with Acrobat. It appears that it has been a bug for many years, and now, unfortunately, I’m experiencing it too.Thank you! It is specifically voice recognition software – Dragon Naturally Speaking or Windows Speech Recognition – that triggers Acrobat to turn on its accessibility features and prepares a PDF to be read out loud. Now it works great.I just had to go through the same process after an update to Acrobat XI. Thank you! Once they decide you’re blind, Acrobat and Adobe Reader will throw up that window about “Reading Mode” every time, or launch into “Content Preparation” every time.
After a lot of work, this is the best information I can put together, in case Acrobat starts wanting to read to you too.I’ll give you the answer that worked for me, after trial and error with several of the other possible solutions found online. Let me know if you find out anything that helps!It didn’t work for me so I just cut the Accessibility.api file from the folder and sent it to my drop box in case I needed it again. There are hints that it might have appeared in Preferences around the 11.0.4 update last fall. This worked for me, and you have my sincere gratitude. Thank you! If you run voice recognition software, Adobe assumes you’re blind. Turn off track changes. If you'd like to disable the Dropbox badge, you can do so at any time.
YES! Click the badge, and then click Preferences. Select the “Accessibility” icon in the System Preferences panel. Maybe the new patch finally stops reinstalling those three files if it sees you have disabled them. I don’t have any answer. How do I turn off the voice/accessibility feature in Mac OSX? To turn accessibility features on or off in iTunes: Connect iPhone 3GS to your computer. I haven’t gone back to chase it down lately – too tired. I opened several pdf files after doing this fix to check, no more annoying pop ups of any kind. ), I was very glad to find this.this worked like a charm, in my case I only needed to alter the accessibility.api file.Glad it worked!