| Title | Missing identification of primary language for content in German |
|---|---|
| Description | A page with the first few sentences of Theodor Fontane's novel "Effi Briest", in German. The html element has does not have lang or xml:lang attributes; the body does not have a lang attribute, either. |
| 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 fail because there is no information about the primary natural language of the content. 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 fails the following success criterion at line 3, column 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 8, column 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The browser cannot find the primary language of the document.
There are no lang or xml:lang attributes in the document.