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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Jan 22, 2013 7:19AM

Gijs,

If the content itself (as opposed to the tags) has a language attribute your AT may be reading it.

To discover if such attributes are present, go to the "Content" tab in Acrobat Professional. Within a content container, select a text run. Get that object's properties and you'll see whether or not a language was set.

This screen-shot shows the relevant dialog in Acrobat.

http://duff-johnson.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/content-language.png

If you find the content's (as opposed to the tag's) language attribute has been set to English then this is your problem as it will override the tags (with some software). Content attributes should be manageable in InDesign.

I'd love to know what you find...

Duff Johnson

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