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Adobe Reader X: When performing text selection, visual highlight does not happen #2183
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Comment 1 by jteh on 2012-03-19 12:01 |
@jcsteh You expressed thoughts on this ticket in #2183 (comment) more than five years ago. Any updates? CC @Qchristensen and @feerrenrut also in case their sight may aid in diagnosing this somewhat visual-oriented issue... |
Ideally, if we could visually highlight text while selecting, it would, as noted, aid sighted / low vision users, though how easy it would be to implement and how much overhead it would bring could be the issue. In some cases - in both Adobe Reader DC and web browsers for instance, you can select text with the mouse and it is visually highlighted, even though it may not be when done with the keyboard. I'll let others comment on the feasibility of implementing it though. |
In Supernova, the highlighting works, but I used to find it was either ahead
or behind the spoken words quite a lot of the time.
Of course we had slower machines in those days. I'd imagine in say all it
would be possible as long as you are not speed reading!
Certainly when I'm trying to find a place on a web site and have some eyes
with me, I'd like some way to indicate where I am to them so they can
explain to me why I cannot get to the desired part.
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Ah highlighting the word being spoken is, I believe, a different issue to the one this ticket is for, which is that when reading a PDF file (although the same is true in some, but not all other Browse mode documents), when you select text, for instance with shift+right arrow, the text is not visually highlighted. For highlighting what is being read, the best option at present is the "focus highlight addon": https://addons.nvda-project.org/addons/focusHighlight.en.html |
@Qchristensen is the text visually selected when switching to focus mode while reading the document in Adobe Reader and selecting with shift+arrow keys or ctrl+shift+arrow keys? |
Selecting text in browse mode selects the text (so you can copy it, for instance) but does not visually highlight it. Switching to focus mode, selecting text (with shift+arrows or control+shift+arrows) does a very interesting thing: It selects text, and highlights it visually, but NOT the text that NVDA was on. (Sometimes it is above, sometimes it is below, I haven't worked out exactly why it moves where it does). NVDA does not read anything when navigating or selecting in focus mode. I have Adobe Reader DC, version 39.012.20040.17853. |
Reported by kevinchao89 on 2012-03-19 11:54
Within Adobe Reader X, specifically in a PDF documetn, and highlighting/selecting text using SHIFT+ARROWS or SHIFT+CTRL+ARROWS, there is no visual highlight occurring. When performing text selection ,it is really important that visual highlight also occurs, allowing for blind to highlight specific text to show to sighted.
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