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Screen reader reads translated content in original language
Hello! One of my Articulate Storyline courses was originally written in German, and I have duplicated and imported the XLIFF file to create an English version of the course. I just tested it with JAWS and the screen reader doesn't recognise it's in English! It reads it out like a German person who has never learnt English in their life. While hilarious, this is not the outcome I'm looking for!
My whole system is in English by default, including JAWS. Therefore I assume that the duplicated German course still tells the screen reader the content is supposedly in German.
Where do I change this setting in my project, please?
Thanks
Hi AnnabelThe
Did you update the Player Text Labels to English as well before publishing the English version of your course? This controls the language identifier in the published output, which is communicated to screen readers.
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Hi AnnabelThe
Did you update the Player Text Labels to English as well before publishing the English version of your course? This controls the language identifier in the published output, which is communicated to screen readers.
Thank you LeslieMcKerchie, that resolved it! In hindsight it was probably what LesleyMizer meant as well, but I misunderstood her advice. Anyway, thank you to all who took the time to help, much appreciated 😊
Thank you for your reply LesleyMizer, it sounded like the fix I was looking for and I managed to edit the story.html file to amend it from <html lang="de-DE"> to "en-EN". However, the screen reader still doesn't recognise that the course is in English unfortunately.
You might try reviewing the player text labels mentioned in this article, Storyline 360 Courses Have an HTML Language Identifier for Screen Readers
Thank you for your reply. I don't have the Localization feature either, so the guidance from this article doesn't apply to me unfortunately.
I do not have the Localization feature to be able to check, but on the web page, Articulate Localization: Publish Multi-Language Storyline Projects | Articulate - Community, under the Separate Packages Option section, it looks like you should be able to select your language from the Publish dialog box. Hope that helps!
