Re: Language Shifts (Accessibility, metadata)

Thanks Matt! That sounds much more informed. :)  I just went and read some
of those docs for some context since I didn't understand the crossover
between the different metadata syntaxes.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM <matt.garrish@gmail.com> wrote:

> You can declare the language(s) of the content in the package document
> using dc:language tags.[1] That’s what EPUB reading systems will be looking
> for if they have the ability to preload TTS languages for a user. Reading
> systems (and vendors) will also typically expose the language information
> in the publication info if the user wants to manually preload languages.
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> [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-a11y-tech-111/#publication-lang
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> Matt
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> *From:* Julie Jacques [Affiliate] <julie.jacques@affiliate.mcgill.ca>
> *Sent:* July 10, 2025 1:13 PM
> *To:* public-schemaorg@w3.org
> *Subject:* Language Shifts (Accessibility, metadata)
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> Hello,
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> 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.
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> Our copyright pages are already quite long and we wonder if readers just
> skip over them anyways and would miss the information.
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> 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.
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> Would love to hear from anyone about thoughts on this.
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> Thanks
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> *Julie Jacques* (she/her)
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> Digital Publishing Assistant
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> McGill-Queen’s University Press
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