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The languages that are spoken by JAWS depends on the synthesizer currently in use.  If you are using the default Eloquence synthesizer that is installed with JAWS, the following languages are available: 

  • American English

  • British English

  • Castilian Spanish

  • Latin American Spanish

  • French, French Canadian

  • German

  • Italian

  • Brazilian Portuguese

  • Finnish


Provide Default Human Language

Ensure that the default human language of each web page can be programmatically determined.

This is to help screen readers load the correct pronunciation rules.

Make sure that a “lang” attribute has been specified in the markup on every web page.

Example:

<html lang="en">