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Re: Lang attributes not being respected by VoiceOver in select options?

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From: jp Jamous
Date: Apr 20, 2022 5:25PM

I have experienced certain behaviors with other components in the past. Have you tried adding the language to each <option> instead of the <select>? I would also recommend pressing Insert + spacebar followed by z, to load the JAWS default settings. That tends to help. Not sure why with my own personal settings, JAWS does not always switch the synthesizer. I typically don't change my settings from the default ones, except to readability preferences that do not get impacted by HTML. Yet, if I load the default settings, I always hear the change in synthesizers. It is worth trying that.


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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Lang attributes not being respected by VoiceOver in select options?

Hmm, interesting. I have the languages installed in my Voiceover settings but none of them are used *except* for Chinese. I *do* hear the last option in the select announced in Chinese. Not sure why j
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Hmm, interesting. I have the languages installed in my Voiceover settings

but none of them are used *except* for Chinese. I *do* hear the last

option in the select announced in Chinese. Not sure why just that one is

honored.



But I hear the same ignoring of the language with the option element with

JAWS and NVDA too, but all the languages are ignored, including Chinese.



I tried setting the language on the <select> element as well as the <label>

element. The label itself could be read in another language but when I

displayed the dropdown list, it switched back to English.



I'm not aware of a workaround. Just confirming your results, sorry.