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Re: Title Attribute speaking Right Language in Wrong accent, but the rest of the page is fine

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From: David Farough
Date: Oct 27, 2017 9:54AM

Hi Sarah:

I tried your code using Jaws 18 and NVDA and in both cases the title
was spoken using the English settings.

I agree that expecting a user to use the speech and sounds manager to
handle this situation would be excessive.
There is a setting to change language when speaking link attributes,
but that would assume that you knew what language to use for all the
links you encounter.
I tried specifying the normal voice rather than the Jaws message voice,
hoping that I would hear the title text in French but no luck there
either.

It seems reasonable to me that the title for the link should be spoken
using the language of the element.

this would be a good thing to report on the jaws open repository.
https://github.com/FreedomScientific/VFO-standards-support/issues

David Farough

Coordonnateur de l'accessibilité des applications, Services intégrés de
gestion des TI
Commission de la fonction publique du Canada / Gouvernement du Canada
<EMAIL REMOVED> Tél: 819-420-8418 Télécopieur :
819-420-8408

Application Accessibility Co-ordinator, Corporate IT Management
Public Service Commission of Canada / Government of Canada
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>>> Sarah Jevnikar < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 05:19 PM Thursday, October
26, 2017 >>>
Thanks David and JP,
The sound schemes is a good idea, but I'm not sure it's fair to expect
everyone who wants to use this site to have made those changes.

I tried adding the language attribute (below), which didn't work, but
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Maybe it's in the wrong place?

<a lang="fr-fr" title="Aller à la page 2"
href="http://google.ca/">2</a>

Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Sarah