| Title | Correct lang and xml:lang attributes and text direction for content in Arabic |
|---|---|
| Description | A page wih an excerpt from an Arabic translation of the GNU Free Documentation License. The html element has lang and xml:lang attributes with the value "ar", the language code for Arabic and a dir attribute with the value "rtl" for right-to-left text. |
| 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
.
Feature: dir
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
Specifying the direction of text and tables: the dir attribute
.
This test case is intended to pass because primary language is correctly identified as Arabic and the text direction as right-to-left.
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 68) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
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 browser can find the primary language and text direction of the document.
In HTML, the default text-direction is left to right, so only a right-to-left text direction needs to be identified (unless there are nested sections with different text directions).