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From: Dona Patrick
Date: Apr 6, 2017 10:00AM

I've just finished remediating a 370 page PDF Spanish language file. I ran
it through JAWS and realized that some of the text was being read in
Spanish but some were being read in English. When I checked the content of
the tags that were being read in English I noticed that the tag properties
had English - US listed as the language.

I'd not noticed this before and wondered if I'd accidently enabled a
setting in either Acrobat Pro or Word to make this happen. I tested it on
both my home and work computers and found that when a Word file was
converted to PDF using the Acrobat ribbon or the Save As PDF option on the
File menu, English -- US was applied to many tags. When I used the Save
option on the File menu and chose PDF from the Save As dialog box, this did
not happen -- the language was clear in the tags properties.

Is there any way to remove the language from all of the tag properties in
one go or am I doomed to do it for each and every tag? I promised this file
to the client by next Thursday and have already spent far too long on it.

Are there settings I have enabled that I should disable to stop this from
happening in the future?

I did see a thread that discussed this, but it only discussed this issue in
regards to InDesign: http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?threadV87

Thank you,

Dona