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From: Farough, David (CFP/PSC)
Date: Oct 1, 2020 12:08PM

Given the following scenario, what is the best way to cause a screen reader to switch languages appropriately?

We have a single page application that will allow a user to switch between English and French. There is a button which specifies French or English at the top of page.
The Language for the page is switched appropriately, but even after refreshing the screen Jaws does not use the correct synthesizer language. The only way to get this to occur is to reload the page.

This is true for both Jaws and NVDA using Chrome.
Any suggestions as to how to address this?