A page with the first few sentences of Theodor Fontane's novel "Effi Briest", in German. The html element has does not have lang or xml:lang attributes; the body does not have a lang attribute, either. Missing identification of primary language for 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 there is no information about the primary natural language of the content. Only the primary language is tested here, not language changes inside the content.

This test case can be evaluated automatically when using a test tool with reliable automatic language recognition for German, support for lang and xml:lang attributes and language tags. For a list of language identification tools, see http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/competitors.html.

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The browser cannot find the primary language of the document.

There are no lang or xml:lang attributes in the document.

IBM Home Page Reader 3.0 German version, set to "automatic language recognition" read the text in German. [@@double check] JAWS 7.1, German version, read the test file in German only when language was set to German.

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).

The browser cannot find the primary language of the document.

There are no lang or xml:lang attributes in the document.