Apple's Spoken Content not functioning in InDesign 19.2
I use Apple's Spoken Content to have my Mac read my documents back to me as a way of proof reading sections at a time for continuity and structure (something no spell check provides). When I highlight text I want read aloud and hit the keyboard commands for Spoken Content, the Mac reads the actual file name of the document! If I copy and paste the text into a .indd file for InDesign 18.5.1 and repeat the steps, it works correctly and reads my text out loud. It works if I open any .indd file that is not saved in 19.2.
PLEASE FIX THIS - accessibility for Spoken Content is a necessity for ADA users.
InDesign 19.2, macOS Sonoma 14.3
Emily Salerno
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Found where the bug might lie. While I was working in 18.5.1 (InDesign 2023) and having the Spoken Content work, on page 4 of my 8 page document it also started to ignore the selected text and began to read the file's name instead. I had been working on it for about 2 hours so that told me there might be a memory issue. I quit InDesign 2023 and shut down the Mac for the evening. But upon relaunch this morning, it was still reading the file's name. At this point I quit InDesign2023 and reset the InD preferences at relaunch. Now it is reading the selected text again. To test this out further, I reset the InDesign2024 preferences and opened a document there - and Spoken Content now works there too. So there's obviously a preferences/memory issue that's shutting down Apple's Spoken Content.