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From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Jul 30, 2012 11:27AM


VoiceOver & NVDA support automatic language switching as well when the HTML is tagged correctly. I like to demo that feature when showing off iOS accessibility.

Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist
Deque Systems
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On Jul 30, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Jukka K. Korpela < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Please provide information about screen readers that actually pay
>> attention to lang attributes (they are attributes, not elements). As far
>> as I know, such behavior is very limited, but things may have changed.
>
> JAWS for one.
>
> http://yaccessibilityblog.com/library/add-language-declarations-for-multilingual-pages.html
>
> --
> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
> > >