| Title | Correct lang and xml:lang attributes for content in British English |
|---|---|
| Description | A page wih an excerpt from a proposed Constitution for the European Union: English version. The html element has lang and xml:lang attributes with the value "en-GB", the correct language code (with subcode) for British English, to indicate the primary language of the page. |
| 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 (British English) is correctly identified.
Automatic evaluation.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case passes (line 3, column 44) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case passes (line 3, column 61) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The browser can find the primary language of the document.
The html element has correct lang and xml:lang attributes.