Assign language tag to PDF in InDesign?

[Abby35489456clg6]

Hi, I have a multilingual document created in InDesign that I need to export as an accessible PDF. I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to successfully export language tags from InDesign? The content in Spanish is assigned unique paragraph styles, and I have defined those styles as Spanish under "Language" in character formats. However when I export the PDF from InDesign, Acrobat reads all of those as "English". 

Am I missing anything or do I have to manually update the language categorization in Acrobat? Trying to avoid that since it's a lengthy document but guessing that's my only option. If so, I guess it's not necessary to create separate paragraph styles for content in Spanish? 

Any other tips for exporting accessible multilingual PDF from ID would be great. 

Tagging our accessibility champion @Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com in case you might have an answer 🙂 Thanks so much 

[Willi Adelberger]

dkefine the language in paragraph and character styles and creative a specific style and tag for each language. 

[Abby35489456clg6]

I did this, but when I open the tag properties in Acrobat, all of them are coming up English (including the separate styles that I specifically set to Spanish in InDesign). Am I missing something? Thanks for the reply 

[Abby35489456clg6]

When exporting the PDF from InDesign, I set the language to "English" since that is the primary language and you can only choose one. 

[Joel Cherney]

Am I missing something?

Hard to say without looking at it, to be honest. Willi's advice looks pretty complete, to me.

The only major addition I can see is that I don't believe that the Language dropdown in the "Advanced" tab of the Interactive PDF Export dialog is really going to affect much, accessibility-wise, in a multilingual PDF. That's the "primary language" of the PDF, but I don't think that is where the majority of screenreaders are going to look for language information. That would be in the tags, where you say:

all of them are coming up English (including the separate styles that I specifically set to Spanish in InDesign)

Where, exactly?

Here's what I would do in InDesign:

and here's what that looks like in the tag view in Acrobat:

If that's not what you are seeing, can you post some examples? Perhaps you could post a sample InDesign file where your Spanish-marked paragraph styles lead to English tags in Acrobat?