I guess I was hoping there'd be a more direct and temporary expedient. The problem with turning that off in Settings is that I then lose multi-lingual support which I actually want most times.
I suppose the conclusion is that multilingual support is just buggy? Brad Snyder writes: > On your iPhone, go to: > Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Speech, and navigate to the item > labeled Detect Languages, and make sure off is selected. > > HTH. > > - Brad - > > On Oct 9, 2025, at 08:22, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries > <[email protected]> wrote: > > ???-- > What can one do when the iPhone starts speaking in the wrong language? > Is there a way to force a TTS language change while in Safari? > > I've started pulling up sites in Japan because I'm planning my trip > there in November. Annoyingly, VoiceOver has started speaking in > Japanese content that I know is English. Clearly, there's a WCAG > violation relating to lang settings, but that's beside the point at the > moment. I suspect someone looking at the screen would have no problem > reading the displayed English. How do I get VoiceOver to speak English? > > TIA! > Janina > > > Janina Sajka (she/her/hers) > Accessibility Consultant https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > Linux Foundation Fellow > https://www.linuxfoundation.org/board-of-directors-2/ > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/aOe3AOX5_lanJcSJ%40A11y.NYC. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/A64FF95F-0D61-4DE2-BF44-BE251221D862%40swbell.net. -- Janina Sajka (she/her/hers) Accessibility Consultant https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa Linux Foundation Fellow https://www.linuxfoundation.org/board-of-directors-2/ -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/aOfN9WuLQVsguMIG%40A11y.NYC.
