I don't know how you use explore by mouse but you are not using any screen-reader as intended as a blind user if you review the screen using screen review methods where using standard navigation

But is the language attribute supposed to change if a page is mostly in one language and parts of a page are in another language? I had thought, perhaps incorrectly, that the language attribute

As far as I’m aware screen readers don’t use AI to detect and then switch languages. David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist NVDA Certified Expert Subscribe to the

This topic raises an interesting question. Do any screen-readers currently use AI to switch languages because the screen-reader detects a language change without the need for an attribute in

I used both ASAP and ASAW and they were very interesting screen-readers. I have no idea how well using AI as ASAW did would have worked as Windows and Windows programs continued to

There were a number of years, perhaps three or four, when the feature wasn't available. I didn't use Windows screen-readers for Internet access during that period because access was so inferior

Remember the talking apple 2 plus.  I got mine in november of 82. It used the echo 2 built by a guy with a name something like Mylo Street.  The sctreen reader was TexTalker which was tied to the

Thank you for sharing this article and for allowing the discussion! I enjoyed reading the article and was not aware of some of the history. I was reading the article using Firefox and NVDA I ran into

All I can say is, hopefully AI will be able to solve this soon so we don't have to worry about compliance. Getting them to make sites accessible in general is hard enough lol. Shawn

With Spanish you'll just have to switch back and forth, or you could practice listening to English with a Spanish voice for parts of the page where both languages are heavily mixed. It's

A lot of synths will read English and Japanese both because they don't share an alphabet. The one-core voices mentioned by someone in this thread may do this without worrying about website

On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 06:42 PM, Shawn wrote: I don't think you're going to convince a website owner to comb through his site setting the right language attributes for each phrase in a given language

Shawn, As often happens with "raw URLs that contain odd characters," the one you posted broke even though there are no gaps in the text itself. For those who want to read the topic referred to, see:

I hate to tell you this, but most websites don't even bother with that stuff, and when they do it's usually to use the wrong language attribute altogether. I turn language switching off and

I've done a bit of Googling about this, and it seems that it's actually whoever created the ESpeak voice's fault. As best as I can figure, they left out loads of kanji and made a real mess of it, so

On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 05:01 PM, Sharni-Lee Ward wrote: I don't have any non-English 1Core voices installed and truth be told, don't know how I might get more.- Settings, Time & Language, Language

Hi, Regarding the first question, ideally, yes but hard to do in practical terms. When opening websites, because sites are hosted around the world, it may take a while for some sites to load. For

Is far I know NVDA do not have the capability of doing that in Windows. I am able to do that on my Mac when I read my text in Chinese. Best regards Michael H. Munn

I should have explained that WCAG stands for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. They document standards to ensure that Web sites are accessible. David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive

Sharni-Lee, No problem. I would encourage you to contact support and ask them to use the language attribute. For reference, here’s a page which discusses the relevant WCAG