If You Use ID in Another Language, JAWS constantly announces that language in PDF Accessibility

Question

This has happened to me twice now.

I used an ID template file that was created in the German version of InDesign. I exported the PDF correctly using the English language setting. JAWS constantly reads "German," despite the document being in English.
I had to install the English-Arabic version of InDesign to create a multilingual poster where just one line of text was Arabic. I made several documents during that time using that version of InDesign. Every single document I made while running that version of InDesign has "Arabic" announced constantly by JAWS, despite all documents being written in English and tagged in the metadata as English. (Incidentally, many of them have the pagination backward and the type backward, now that I have uninstalled English-Arabic. I have had to trash them and rebuild each file completely. 🤦)

It seems that every time JAWS hits a new text frame which corresponds to a new <Heading> or <P> tag in the PDF, it reads the language of the version of InDesign that was used... so "German" or "Arabic."

I have looked to see if others have this issue, or where on earth in the PDF I can artifact this or turn it off. I can't find it anywhere.

tag in the PDF, it reads the language of the version of InDesign that was used... so "German" or "Arabic." I have looked to see if others have this issue, or where on earth in the PDF I can artifact this or turn it off. I can't find it anywhere.

Frans v.d. Geest · Accepted Answer

Remember that the Language setting is and Paragraph Styles setting and a Character Styles setting. So, if you use the German version with English text, make sure that the Paragraph/Character style's language is also set to English as well as the Document setting on export. If the Paragraph/Character style setting is different than the Document setting, it wil be seen as an 'override' and this be announced. If you do not change it in the Paragraph/Character style all styles will default it to the language of the Application (German, English, Arabic etc. etc.)

bren87 · Answer

This is a video of what it's doing.

https://uta.instructuremedia.com/embed/5076b958-8489-4259-a0d9-01e714521967

"ARABIC" everytime it hits a new tag. The text is not Arabic and the document language is not Arabic. I simply had English-Arabic version of InDesign installed (because I needed to use it for a multilingual poster.)

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