Language Shifts (Accessibility, metadata)

Hello,

I'm curious to know if anyone has thoughts about declaring which languages are used in an EPUB so that readers using TTS know which languages they would need to download on their OS or enable on their mobile devices to ensure proper pronunciation by a screen reader.

Our copyright pages are already quite long and we wonder if readers just skip over them anyways and would miss the information.

We have a 1,000-character limit in the accessibilitySummary field which is already getting quite long and would be restrictive for those titles which have over ten languages being used.

Would love to hear from anyone about thoughts on this.

Thanks


Julie Jacques (she/her)

Digital Publishing Assistant

McGill-Queen’s University Press

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