A page with the first few sentences of Theodor Fontane's novel "Effi Briest", in German. The html element has no lang and xml:lang attributes, but the body element has a lang attribute with the value for German ("de"). Correct <html:code>lang</html:code> attribute on <html:code>body</html:code> for primary language of content in German Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be en Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 2005-09-01 accepted for end user evaluation Specifying the language of content: the lang attribute

This test case is intended to pass because the primary natural language of the content is correctly defined. Tests should show that defining the primary natural language on the body element instead of the html element does not cause problems. It is not strictly required that the language code should be defined on the html element, although that is what would be expected. Only the primary language is tested here, not language changes inside the content.

This test case can be evaluated automatically when using a test tool with reliable automatic language recognition for German and support for lang and xml:lang attributes and language tags. For a list of language identification tools, see http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/competitors.html.

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You need a screen reader that supports both English and German (e.g. by selecting automatic language recognition). We will present you a paragraph of a German text. Please just listen to the text. It is not necessary to understand the content.

U hebt een schermlezer nodig die zowel Engels als Duits ondersteunt (bv. door het selecteren van automatische taalherkenning). U krijgt een stukje tekst in het Duits te horen. Luister gewoon naar de tekst, het is niet noodzakelijk dat u ook de inhoud begrijpt.

Did your screen reader read the text as if it were English or German ?

Las uw schermlezer de tekst met een Duitse of een Engelse uitspraak voor ?

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You need a screen reader that supports both English and German (e.g. by selecting automatic language recognition). We will present you a paragraph of a German text. Please just listen to the text. It is not necessary to understand the content.

U hebt een schermlezer nodig die zowel Engels als Duits ondersteunt (bv. door het selecteren van automatische taalherkenning). U krijgt een stukje tekst in het Duits te horen. Luister gewoon naar de tekst, het is niet noodzakelijk dat u ook de inhoud begrijpt.

Did your screen reader read the text as if it were English or German ?

Las uw schermlezer de tekst met een Duitse of een Engelse uitspraak voor ?

 -1 1 -2 low vision

Just to garantee that none of the test participants is excluded. Normally non of this users will use a talking browser

You need a talking browser that supports both English and German (e.g. by selecting automatic language recognition). We will present you a paragraph of a German text. Please just listen to the text. It is not necessary to understand the content.

U hebt een sprekende browser nodig die zowel Engels als Duits ondersteunt (bv. door het selecteren van automatische taalherkenning). U krijgt een stukje tekst in het Duits te horen. Luister gewoon naar de tekst, het is niet noodzakelijk dat u ook de inhoud begrijpt.

Did your talking browser read the text as if it were English or German ?

Las uw sprekende browser de tekst met een Duitse of een Engelse uitspraak voor ?

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The browser cannot find the primary language of the document but it may be able to find the primary language of the content.

The html element has no lang or xml:lang attributes but the body has appropriate lang and xml:lang attributes.

IBM Home Page Reader 3.0 German version, set to "automatic language recognition", and JAWS 7.1, German version, reads the test file in German. [@@double check for HPR] JAWS 8.0 on Windows 2000 reads the text file in German, both with Internet Explorer 6.0 and with Firefox 2.

This test case maps to technique H57: Using the lang attribute of the html element (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#H57).

The browser cannot find the primary language of the document but it may be able to find the primary language of the content.

The html element has no lang or xml:lang attributes but the body has appropriate lang and xml:lang attributes.