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Setting Widget Language

Configure the AllAccessible widget to display in your preferred language or automatically detect your visitors' language preferences. This guide expla

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Setting Widget Language

Overview

The AllAccessible widget shows its menu, labels, and feature names in the visitor's language. By default it follows each visitor's browser. You can also set a default language for your whole site from the dashboard. Visitors can always switch languages inside the widget.

Who This Is For

  • Sites whose visitors mostly speak one language

  • Multi-language sites that want the widget to follow each visitor

  • Anyone whose widget is showing in an unexpected language

What You'll Learn

  • Which languages the widget ships in

  • How the widget picks a language

  • How to set a default language for your site

  • How visitors change language themselves

Supported Languages

The widget interface is available in 23 languages:

Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian (Latin), Serbian (Cyrillic), Spanish, Swedish, Tamil.

Arabic and Hebrew display right-to-left automatically.

This list covers the widget's own interface. Text-to-Speech voices are a separate setting with their own language list, found under Widget Settings › Text-to-Speech Settings on paid plans.

How the Widget Picks a Language

When the widget loads it checks, in this order, and uses the first language it supports:

  1. The visitor's own choice. If they picked a language inside the widget before, that choice is saved in their browser and always wins.

  2. Your Default Language. Set in the dashboard (below). Skipped when left on Auto.

  3. The visitor's browser language.

  4. Your page's declared language (the lang attribute on your site's HTML), used when the browser language is not one the widget ships.

  5. English.

Leaving Default Language on Auto means the widget follows each visitor. Setting a specific language means every visitor sees that language first, and can still switch.

Setting a Default Language

  1. Sign in at app.allaccessible.org and open your site.

  2. Choose the subdomain, then the Widget Settings tab.

  3. Find the Language Settings card near the top, above Widget Position.

  4. In Default Language, choose Auto (match each visitor's browser) or a specific language.

  5. Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.

Changes typically apply to your site immediately after saving. If not, allow up to 30 minutes for cached widgets to propagate.

Examples

Your site

Recommended setting

Why

Polish-only site

Polish

Every visitor sees Polish first, even with an English browser

Site with English and Spanish pages

Auto

Each visitor gets their own browser language

Global brand, English content

Auto

Non-English visitors still get the widget in their language

WordPress users can also set this from AllAccessible › Widget Customizer in wp-admin, in the Widget Language card at the top of the page. It suggests your WordPress site language with one click. Plugin version 2.1.7 or later.

Requires the current widget. Sites still running the original widget do not have this card. Contact support and we will move your site to the current widget.

Visitors Can Change Language

  1. Open the widget on your site.

  2. Use the language selector at the top of the widget panel.

  3. Pick a language. The widget updates immediately.

Their choice is saved in their browser and used on later visits. It overrides both auto-detection and your default. Visitors clear it with the widget's Reset button or by clearing browser data.

Troubleshooting

Widget shows English on my non-English site.
Set a Default Language, or check that your visitors' browsers are set to a language the widget ships. If your visitors' browser language is not in the list above, the widget also checks your page's lang attribute.

I set a Default Language and still see another language.
You picked a language inside the widget earlier and that choice is saved in your browser. Use the widget's Reset button, or test in a private window.

My language is not in the list.
Tell us which one. We prioritise new widget languages by request.

I cannot find the Language Settings card.
Your site is on the original widget. Contact support to move it to the current widget.

Related Articles

  • Widget Customization Overview

  • Widget Settings Not Saving? Dashboard Settings vs. Visitor Preferences

  • Understanding All Widget Features

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