| Title | Correct lang and xml:lang attributes and incorrect text direction for content in Arabic |
|---|---|
| Description | A page wih an excerpt from an Arabic translation of the GNU Free Documentation License. The html element has lang and xml:lang attributes with the value "ar", the language code for Arabic. However, the dir attribute on the html contains the value "ltr" for left-to-right text (instead of "rtl" for right-to-left text), and this value is not overriden on the body element or elsewhere in the content. |
| 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
.
Feature: dir
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
Specifying the direction of text and tables: the dir attribute
.
This test case is intended to fail because primary language is correctly identified as Arabic but the text direction for the document is incorrect (it should be right to left for the Arabic sections).
Automatic evaluation.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 3, column 68: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 3, column 44: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 3, column 58: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The browser can find the primary language but not the text direction of the document.
The text direction on the html element is incorrect.