"You can also use the up and down arrows to read blocks of text. These preferences do not have corresponding options in the Accessibility Setup Assistant."
From https://helpx.adobe.com/reader/using/accessibility-features.html
The Read Out Loud is baked into Adobe so if it's broken you must report it or they won't have any reason to fix it.
Hello! I am helping a blind person, who uses the read out loud funktion in Acrobat PDF reader, which works perfectly fine. BUT...
A while ago this person could skip lines by using arrows up and down, while reading out loud.
Obviously windows or acrobat reader changed the key combination to activate the read out loud function a while ago - we got it to work igen. But we need help to figure out how to skip lines?
Sometimes you just know there is a section in a PDF file you are interesseret in, for example you want to hear something at the end of a dokument or the amount of a bill. Right now this person must listen to the whole dokument to get to it, which actually is quite annoying.
We tried google and youtube without any luck. Is there anyone who can help us?
We really would appreciate it! Thank you so much in advance!

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