| Title | Correct lang attribute on body for primary language of content in German - override language information of html element |
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| Description | A page with the first few sentences of Theodor Fontane's novel "Effi Briest", in German. The html element has lang and xml:lang attributes with the value for English ("en"). The body element has lang with the value for German ("de"). |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-01 |
| Status | draft |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: lang
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
Specifying the language of content: the lang attribute
.
This test case is intended to pass because the primary natural language of the content is correctly defined.
Tests should show that defining the primary natural language on the body element instead of the html element does not cause problems. Only the primary language is tested here, not language changes inside the content.
End user.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case passes (line 3, column 44) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case passes (line 3, column 58) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case passes (line 8, column 7) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The browser can find the primary language of the document.
The html element has lang and xml:lang attributes and the body elment has a lang attribute with the correct value for the body content.