[theundeadelvis]

Hello! I'm a fairly basic ePub user, and I've run into a bit of a conundrum. We convert Word documents to ePub files, so that materials can be made accessible to low-vision/blind students on their mobile devices. We are currently working with some documents that contain both Arabic and English in them. Getting a reader to read aloud the Arabic is working, but we have been unable to get it to read both the Arabic and the English aloud. So, if there's a sentence in Arabic, and then a small section of English, it will read the Arabic, but not the English.

Is ePub capable of this? Obviously, there's the issue of Arabic reading right to left, and English left to right, but we were hoping we could throw the English text in a <span> with dir-ltr or something to that affect.

Any insight you can offer is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!