| Title | Correct language identification for English acronym in German text |
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| Description | A page with a German sentence that contains an English acronym.
The English expansion of the acronym is provided in the title attribute of the acronym element, which also has a lang attribute with the value "en" for English.
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| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-01 |
| Status | accepted QA |
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)
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Technical specification:
Specifying the language of content: the lang attribute
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This test case is intended to pass because the language of the (English) expansion of the acronym is correctly identified.
Check whether the change in natural language for the title-attribute of the acronym-element is correctly identified.
Accessibility expert.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case passes (line 9, column 17) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-other-lang-id.
The browser can determine the natural language of the acronym in the document. (Both the acronym and the expansion are identified as English.)
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 test case passes (line 9, column 17) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-other-lang-id.
The browser can determine the natural language of the acronym in the document.