A page with the first few sentences of Theodor Fontane's novel "Effi Briest", in German. The html element has a lang with the value "en" (English) and an xml:lang attribute with the value "de" (German). Correct <html:code>xml:lang</html:code> and incorrect <html:code>lang</html:code> attribute for primary language of content in German Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be en Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 2005-09-01 accepted QA Specifying the language of content: the lang attribute

This test case is intended to fail because the primary natural language of the content is not correctly identified: the language information is contradictory. Only the primary language is tested, not language changes inside the content.

This test case can be evaluated automatically when using a test tool with reliable automatic language recognition for both German and English, support for lang and xml:lang attributes and language tags.

 automatic

The browser may not be able to find the primary language of the document.

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).

Note that when both lang and xml:lang are specified, the value of xml:lang takes precedence: see "The lang and xml:lang Attributes" in the XHTML specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_7).

IBM Home Page Reader 3.0 German version, set to "automatic language recognition", and JAWS 7.1, German version, tried to read the test file in English.

@@ removed lang="de" from body element; @@todo create additional test case with lang="de" on body element?? or check whether this already exists.

The browser may not be able to find the primary language of the document.

The html element has lang and xml:lang attributes with contradictory values. Only the primary language is tested here, not language changes inside the content.