| Title | Missing language identification for English text alternative for image in German text |
|---|---|
| Description | A page with German content that contains a logo with a text alternative in English. The English text alternative of the image is provided in the alt attribute of the img element, which does not have a lang attribute (with the value "en" for English). |
| 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 fail because the language of the (English) text alternative of the image is not identified.
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 10, column 4: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-other-lang-id.
The browser cannot determine the natural language of the text alternative for the image in the document.
The image should have a lang attribute with value "en" instead of an empty lang attribute.