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From: Gijs Veyfeyken
Date: Jan 22, 2013 4:58AM

Hi,

By following Adobe's guidelines for creating accessible PDF's with InDesign (CS6), I get a perfectly tagged and structured PDF with minimal effort.
There is only one thing I cannot fix. Getting screenreaders (I tested with Jaws & NVDA) to read the PDF in the specified language (Dutch).

In Acrobat Pro X, I manually set the language to "Dutch" in the document properties.
Screenshot: http://images.anysurfer.be/2013-01-22_09-54-38.png

In the tags tree in Acrobat, I've deleted the language property "en-GB" on the root tag <document> which is assigned by InDesign automatically.
Screenshot: http://images.anysurfer.be/2013-01-22_09-53-51.png

Still, NVDA reads the PDF in English. Jaws starts the PDF by saying "American English", then reads it in Dutch.
Does that mean there are other hidden language attributes automatically set to English that I need to delete?
Am I missing something or is this a screenreader problem?

Kind regards,

Gijs Veyfeyken