A document with an excerpt from Shakespeare's play Henry V. The primary language of the document is English (correctly identified with language attributes on the html element), but some speeches are in French. For each speech in French, the language is not identified (with lang="" instead of lang="fr"). Missing identification of changes in natural language from English to French 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 language of passages in French is not identified.

Check whether all changes in natural language are correctly identified.

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The browser cannot determine the changes in natural language in the document.

The lang attributes for the French phrases have an incorrect value (empty attribute).

This test case maps to technique H58: Using the lang attribute to identify changes in the natural language (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#H58).

The browser cannot determine the changes in natural language in the document.

The lang attributes for the French phrases have an incorrect value (empty attribute).

The document might not be rendered correctly by a screenreader.

The lang attributes for the French phrases are empty, which causes validation errors.