How to force processing a PDF in Polish.

[sebastians24693643]

Hi, I've created the PowerPoint presentation in Polish and saved it as a PDF/A (it has to be accessible and readable by various automatic readers).
The problem is that is is read sometimes in Polish sometimes in English although the main language for PowerPoint and for PDF is set as Polish.

The important note is that in other documents created exaclty the same way there is no such a problem.
I was told that I can try to do sth in Acrobat Pro - I've checked - the main language is Polsih. Where else to look to force processig in Polish?

[pixelstrolch]

Did you check the language setting for the affected text in PowerPoint?

In your PDF, you can set just one document language, however, you are able to set another language setting on each PDF tag.

[sebastians24693643]

Yes, I've checked in PowerPoint. The language settings are proper. In my PDF the language for the whole document is set as Polish. Something that I can try is set antoher language on each PDF tag - but how can I do it?

[Test Screen Name]

You say it reads "sometimes" in English. Is it consistent? I mean, on a particular system and screen reader, is it always the same language? Some screen readers (especially Read Out Loud which is not an accessibility tool) may use a system default language.

[sebastians24693643]

Yes, it always choose English for particular slides, the reader default language is Polish. Something must be hidden in this particular  document because all other documents are fine.

[Test Screen Name]

But what I asking is whether these screen readers ever read Polish for you?

[sebastians24693643]

🙂 Yes, reads Polish

[Test Screen Name]

So this same Screen Reader will sometimes read in Polish from a different PDF? Not a different screen reader?

[sebastians24693643]

It is the same screen reader. Its default language is Polish and it does recognize Polish in my PDF by some part of it are read in English although the languge set for the document is Polish.

[pixelstrolch]

You can check if a tag has another language setting in the object properties. See step 1 and 2 of varation 2 of the tutorial “Change PDF tags in Acrobat”.

I quickly tested a PDF with a German paragraph but with an English language setting on its <P> tag. VoiceOver and the Preview app changed to the English voice. NVDA with Acrobat Reader have read the text in German. Perhaps, I haven't set up NVDA properly. However, I'm not a screenreader pro.

In case there is a specific language setting on your tag, my guess this somehow comes from the PowerPoint file.

In case there are no language settings in your tags, my guess would be your screenreader has some kind of auto language detection, which doesn't work properly.