| Title | Correct language code and subcode for content in British English |
|---|---|
| Description | A page with content in British English. The lang and xml:lang attribute on the html element contain the correct language and subcode: "en-GB" for British English. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-02 |
| 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 is correctly defined. Subcodes to identify versions of languages are not required.
Automatic evaluation.
“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 61) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The browser can find the primary language and the language version of the document.
The html element has correct lang and xml:lang attributes: tap and "run the bath" are British English expressions, and this is correctly indicated.