Accessibility issue with voiceover

Hello,

I’m trying to make my app more accessible. I was testing voiceover on iPhone and it doesn’t work well. Basically, even if the text is in Spanish (under the Spanish text tag in WeWeb), voiceover reads it in english (that means, it reads the text which is in Spanish, but with an “English accent”, to say something).

How can we solve that? That’s a big deal since we’re working with a client with a big blind population.

I deployed it to the app store with @despia , mentioning you here in case this is something we need to solve on the despia side.

Thank you very much in advance!

Jorge.

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Thanks for letting us know about this use case.

  • I’m going to have a meeting with my team in 20 minutes and I will bring this up, and we will have a solution for this ASAP!

Thanks :wink:

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Hey - if you add a language tag to your text, it should solve the problem :wink:

<p>
  Este párrafo es español pero esta parte
  <span lang="en">is in English</span>.
</p>

Thank you for your reply @despia but I’m a bit lost with this one.

I have it set up like this:

I understand that wen the page language is Spanish it should read in Spanish (as it also displays the text in Spanish) and when the page language is English it should read in english. I have detected that the behavior is the same when I load the app in Safari. So I guess this might be a WeWeb issue. It would be great if someone from weweb could shed some light on this one @Joyce :slight_smile:

Thank you very much in advance!

Jorge.

I assume you wanna make sure that the document language meta tag of the page is set to “es”.

  • We are also able to give you access to set the Despia runtime app langue to be Spanish, but that would force it for all pages, even English ones as it would overwrite the dynamic meta tags on a system level.

If that is an option that you want to consider, please let us know, we will be able to implement that shortly :wink:

Thank you very much for your solution @despia

That’s a bit inconvenient since I have users in both English and Spanish, let’s see what the WeWeb team has to say to this issue. But thanks again for trying to find solutions to this issue!

Thank you! :growing_heart:

Jorge.

Sounds good :+1:

  • Please let me know if there is anything we can do to help with this :wink: