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Re: Jaws reverts to default language setting when ARIA menu structures are focused

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From: Patterson, David K (ITD)
Date: Apr 22, 2013 12:06PM

Ah, yes. As Lucy said, JAWS will speak its commands etc. in the LANG to which it is set. Therefore for a native speaker such as French . they should have JAWS set to their native language. To me, there is no problem, given this is how JAWS normally works.
David K. Patterson
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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Lucy Greco
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 1:45 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Jaws reverts to default language setting when ARIA menu structures are focused

The problem is not on the page but in the OS if the user Lang is set the elements will be spoken in the default it's only the content that is spoken in the different Lang I am not sure sf will do anything about this. Is the
hole page Lang set or just the content if the page itself is not set then
this is the behavior that should be happening

Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of David Farough
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 10:37 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] Jaws reverts to default language setting when ARIA menu structures are focussed

Here is an issue which I have reported to Freedom Scientific which would be of interest to Jaws users who frequently access sites using languages other than English. This also seems to be the case with NVDA 2012.3 I have not yet tested with the new release candidate.

when I access http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/demos/index-fra.html
the Jaws language reverts to English when accessing the menu structures on the page. I have consulted the web developers of this resource who have indicated that the Language does not change on these elements. Our web pages are using these features so it is important for our French users to have their language used for this content.

To add to Birkir's comments, it is also important that AT users report problems that they experience with their AT so that new features and functionality can be corrected quickly.



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