General Guidelines
Per the City and County of San Francisco’s Language Ordinance, site content should be available in the following languages.Provide human translation of vital information in the threshold languages defined by the Language Access Ordinance. This includes clear navigation to translations.
Currently these languages are:
English
Spanish
Chinese (traditional Chinese)
Filipino
Translation for other relevant languages is encouraged
JAWS Screen Reader and Languages
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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:
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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">
Content Presented in a Different Language Than the Default Language
When content has been referred to in a different language, ensure that it has been marked with a lang attribute to help screen reader users or other assistive technology users to properly convert the text into synthetic speech.
Example:
An HTML Web page includes links to versions of the page in other languages (e.g., Deutsch, Français, Nederlands, Catalan, etc.). The text of each link is the name of the language, in that language. The language of each link is indicated via a lang attribute.
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<ul>
<li><a href="..." lang="de">Deutsch</a></li>
<li><a href="..." lang="it">Italiano</a></li>
<li><a href="..." lang="fr">Français</a></li>
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<li><a href="..." lang="zh-hant">繁體中文</a></li>
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