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 not identified (with lang="" instead of lang="fr"). Missing identification of changes in natural language from English to French Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be en Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 2005-09-01 draft Specifying the language of content: the lang attribute

This test case is intended to fail because the language of passages in French is not identified.

 automatic

If you do this test with a screen reader and speech output, the screen reader needs to support English and French.

Can you determine the language of each passage in the text? Or if you use a screen reader with speech output, is each passage spoken in the correct language?

The browser cannot determine the changes in natural language in the document.

The lang attributes for the French phrases have an incorrect value (empty attribute).

The document might not be rendered correctly by a screenreader.

The lang attributes for the French phrases are empty, which causes validation errors.