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 and a dir attribute with the value "rtl" for right-to-left text. Correct <html:code>lang</html:code> and <html:code>xml:lang</html:code> attributes and text direction for content in Arabic Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be en Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 2005-09-01 validated Specifying the language of content: the lang attribute Specifying the direction of text and tables: the dir attribute

This test case is intended to pass because the default human language is correctly identified as Arabic and the text direction as right-to-left.

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 default human language of the document.

In HTML, the default text-direction is left to right, so only a right-to-left text direction needs to be identified (unless there are nested sections with different text directions).

This test case maps to technique H57: Using language attributes on the html element. Note that technique "H55: Using the dir attribute of the html element" has been removed from the May 2007 draft.

The browser can find the primary language and text direction of the document.

In HTML, the default text-direction is left to right, so only a right-to-left text direction needs to be identified (unless there are nested sections with different text directions).

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).

Online version: sc3.1.1_l1_054.

The browser can find the primary language and text direction of the document.

In HTML, the default text-direction is left to right, so only a right-to-left text direction needs to be identified (unless there are nested sections with different text directions).