A page with an excerpt from an Arabic translation of the GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.isocsyria.org/gfdl.html). 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. Correct <html:code>lang</html:code> and <html:code>xml:lang</html:code> attributes and incorrect text direction for content in Arabic Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be en Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 2005-09-01 accepted QA Specifying the language of content: the lang attribute 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).

This test case can be evaluated automatically when using a test tool with reliable automatic language recognition for Arabic, support for lang and xml:lang attributes, language tags, the dir attribute and text direction codes.

 automatic

The browser can find the primary language but not the text direction of the document.

The text direction on the html element is incorrect.

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) and to technique H55: Using the dir attribute of the html element (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#H55).

The browser can find the primary language but not the text direction of the document.

The text direction on the html element is incorrect.