A document with an excerpt of Schlegel's translation of Shakespeare's play Henry V. The primary language of the content is correctly identified as English by means of the lang and xml:lang attributes on the html element. The German translation is included in a blockquote element where the language is correctly identified with the lang attribute (with the value "de" for German). Language changes from German to French inside the translation are also correctly identified with the lang attribute (with the value "fr" for French). User agents should be able to determine the language of each passage in the content. <html:code>lang</html:code> attribute for changes in natural language: English, German, 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 pass because all language changes are correctly identified.

 automatic

If you do this test with a screen reader and speech output, the screen reader needs to support English, German 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 can determine the changes in natural language in the document.