Acrobat Reader XI: Won't read aloud ADA files

Adobe Reader XI will not "Read Out Loud" an ADA 508-compliant pdf file using MAC OS 7 or 8. Worked fine on OS 6.
The only thing it will do is read a text block if I manually click on it.
Three of us are having this problem!
Q: Anyone else having this problem. Any solutions
Greg

Now I'm trying to disabled reader_sl.exe from running on startup. I don't see it in Startup menu/Services/msconfig.
The only adobe related program that is running at starting is AdobeARM.exe.
Can anyone please point me in the right direction? Thank you
EDIT: Ok I found it myself. It was the AdobeARM.exe that was running reader_sl.exe. Disabling it in msconfig did the trick.
From this point I am not sure if it was both the eula.exe and reader_sl.exe or just the reader_sl.exe.
Good that I found it, now I can continue using my favorite PDF reader and it seems faster without the speedlauncher. Maybe because I have SanDisk ExpressCache.
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