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Re: PDF files have user default language set for sometags(<P>, <LBody>, <Link>)

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From: Trafford, Logan
Date: Apr 6, 2017 11:14AM

CommonLook Global Access for PDF has a feature that can solve that problem in one fell swoop. It essentially applies the same fix to all similar issues within the document. We run into the same problem quite often as we create bilingual French/English documents. Unfortunately you need to have the CommonLook add-on for Acrobat.

Logan

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of JP Jamous
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 12:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF files have user default language set for some tags (<P>, <LBody>, <Link>)

I am afraid you have to do it manually. Word does that in case you use different languages. When you convert to PDF, some settings get lost during the conversion. I know it is a royal pain.

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Dona Patrick
Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2017 11:01 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] PDF files have user default language set for some tags (<P>, <LBody>, <Link>)

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
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