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Re: declare the language in spans for Hebrew - left to right? Right to left?

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From: Amanda Rush
Date: Jun 16, 2021 9:59AM

Hi Sandy,

Your span tag would be left to right, and you'll want a bit of CSS to ensure
that the text displays correctly in browsers/systems whose default is not
set to Hebrew or some other right-to-left language.

Also, if this is a wordPress page//site, and you have the affordance, quit
now on this part. wordPress does poorly in multilingual situations, and it's
even worse when one language is Latin characters and the other is non-Latin.
If the site is multilingual and wordPress, you'd be better off having
someone like Motionpoint handle the foreign language with a separate site
which they then sync to the original. This introduces its own set of
complications, but if you're dealing with WordPress it'll be less of a
hair-pulling experience than trying to fight that and hack around with cSS
to get Hebrew working correctly.

Speaking from experience on this. Not recommending Motionpoint because I
like working with them or because they pay me, just have had to deal with
them on a site with several languages involved. They will do accessibility
but you'll have to be specific, very specific, and it will likely require
several arguments with their engineers which will be passed through their
client rep.

Hope this is helpful.

Amanda