| Title | Correct lang attribute on body for primary language of content in German |
|---|---|
| Description | 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"). |
| 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 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.
End user.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case needs review before it can be established if it passes or fails the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id. The code that causes doubt can be found at line 3, column 1.
The test case needs review before it can be established if it passes or fails the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id. The code that causes doubt can be found at line 8, column 7.
The test case needs review before it can be established if it passes or fails the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id. The code that causes doubt can be found at line 8, column 16.
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.