| Title | Inorrect identification of changes in natural language from English to French |
|---|---|
| Description | A document with an excerpt from Shakespeare's play Henry V. The primary language of the document is English (correctly identified with language attributes on the html element), but some speeches are in French. For each speech in French, the language is incorrectly identified (with lang="français" instead of lang="fr"). |
| 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 the language of passages in French is identified with a language code that does not exist.
Automatic evaluation.
“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 43, column 15: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-other-lang-id.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 54, column 26: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-other-lang-id.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 60, column 26: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-other-lang-id.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 72, column 26: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-other-lang-id.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 85, column 13: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-other-lang-id.
The browser cannot determine the changes in natural language in the document.
The lang attributes for the French passages have an incorrect value.