A document with an English sentence that contains a word in Italian. The change from English to Italian is identified. (The span element containing the Italian word has a lang attribute with the value "it" for Italian.) No language identification for Italian word in English text 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 pass because the language of the Italian word is correctly identified. Since it is only a single word, there is no requirement to identify the change in language in WCAG 2.0, even though this was required in WCAG 1.0.

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

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?

A screen reader user should be able detect the change in language in the document's content.

In WCAG 2.0, it is no longer required to identify the language for individual words.

A screen reader user should hear the change in language in the the screen reader's speech synthesizer.

WCAG 1.0 required a lang attribute for every single change in natural language, even for single words.