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Re: PDF language not recognized by screenreaders

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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Jan 24, 2013 10:39AM

> What isn't set is the document language setting as shown in the document properties. This is simple to do, but I completely agree that we need to simplify this process. I'll share this information with the InDesign team and work to get this addressed.

This will certainly help, but it's not quite to the point.

Gijs's point - as I understood it - was that setting the document language in Acrobat did not produce the desired result (i.e., AT using that language). This is, simply, because the document language setting in Acrobat acts on document-level metadata rather than on the content (or on the tags, for that matter).

Insofar as Acrobat is a "PDF editor" it would make sense to have the document-langauge management feature include the ability to (optionally) over-ride existing tag and content-level language settings.

Preferably, the user should not be forced to return to the source InDesign file to address this problem in a reasonable manner.

Duff.