Windows 10: How can I get narrator to read pdf?

I am not vision impaired, nor have I used windows narrator before. I was hoping I could use it to listen to some journal articles, but when I tried it all it would do is describe various buttons on the screen. Reading pdf files should have been implemented a long time ago, but how? Also, how do I stop windows narrator from describing buttons?

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Win 10 Narrator reading PDFs

Thanks @Rhina Vib for the suggestion / pointer.

My version of Windows 2013 wasn't very helpful for this. When I try to open PDFs it says it has to convert them into an editable Word document. When attempting to do so it gives an error indicating that the PDF author does not grant permission for such
an operation and the open fails.

But the notion of using an application other than Adobe Acrobat Reader DC to read the PDF prompted me to try using the Windows Reader App. No luck there. It seems odd to me that a Microsoft App (Reader) doesn't work with Narrator and hence doesn't really
support Microsoft's own accessibility standards. But that is a different issue.

Microsoft Edge showed up in my context menu "open with" options for pdf files so I gave it a try and it works. Microsoft Edge opening the PDF worked with Narrator. Great.

I am unfortunately finding that many applications do not necessarily support (work with) Narrator. That is unfortunate.

 

Win 10 Narrator reading PDFs

Hi,

Narrator can read the PDF files but you would need to open them with Microsoft Word. For steps, you can refer to

Anannya Podder's post by clicking this
link.

Let us know if you have other questions.

Regards.

 

Narrator

Hi,

Thank you for providing the information.

Based on the description, it appears that you are facing issues in getting the Read option in Adobe Reader to speak loud.

• Which version of Adobe Reader is installed on your computer?

I would suggest you to refer and follow the steps under page 43 from the link which may help you in
enabling the read loud options and check if it helps.

http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/reader/pdfs/reader7_accessibility.pdf

Enable the Read out Loud option and turn on Narrator and check if it helps.

Keep us posted to help you better.