Language Switching in MacBook Pro

I test websites for accessibility. I have set up language switching on PC's using JAWS and NVDA. I need to know how to set up automatic switching on a MacBook Pro. I see posts about iPhone and iPad that seem easy, but I cannot find any language switching settings on a Mac laptop. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Posted on Mar 25, 2021 1:32 PM

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Mar 25, 2021 3:17 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

I appreciate your answer. However, that link does not solve the problem of language switching. I can set up multiple languages and multiple voices for languages. I can switch completely to another language. But in teaching a language, I need to be able to provide English immediately followed by another language such as Spanish. There is a language attribute in HTML. <html lang="en"> should be at the top of every web page that has English as the primary language. But I can turn an individual section or paragraph into Spanish. <section lang="es"> I can hear this language switching using 2 screen readers: NVDA and JAWS which both run on a PC. But I cannot hear this language switching using Voiceover on a MacBook Pro. I know this is a really picky question, so I may not find the answer soon. But I do appreciate your help!

Mar 25, 2021 3:34 PM in response to Access4Web

Thanks for clarifying what you are looking for. I suspect that Voice Over doesn't yet have the ability to do what you want. You might want to ask in the more technical stack exchange forums (stackoverflow, apple.stackexchange) as well. A post from there which may be helpful:


https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62509491/voiceover-having-problem-to-pronounce-non-english-options-from-select-dropdown


Because your question doesn't really have anything to do with the particular Mac hardware you are using, I will try to have it moved to the MacOS forum.

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