When I bring my InDesign PDF into Acrobat, the automated reader won't read acronyms!!!

I'm trying to make my InDesign doc 508 Compliant. There are a lot of acronyms in this document. After I've exported my PDF and open it in reader I use the "Read Out Loud" option to make sure everything sounds correct. Whenever the reader comes to an acronym such as DOE or DUD it wants to read them as regular words (doe, dud). How can I tell it to read out each letter individually?
Please help!
Thanks guys/gals,

It may be because both DOE and DUD are, in fact, actual words. I inserted hair spaces between the characters, but Preview still pronounced them as words; inserting Thin spaces made it speak out the individual letters. (I just realized I didn't test the in-between 1/6th spaces -- try them.)
I tested with Preview, so it's possible Acrobat doesn't do this the same way. But if it does: it seems you cannot 'hide' the spaces using negative tracking. If you try this, the letters will again be spoken as words.
(Ed.) If these are acronyms, shouldn't you write them as D.O.E. and D.U.D.? That makes it clear to the casual reader you are not using it, like, "This rumor was a total DUD, dude!"

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