| Title | Correct lang and xml:lang attributes and missing text direction for content in Arabic |
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| Description | 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, there is no dir attribute on the html or the body element to specify right-to-left text direction. This means that user agents will assume the default text direction: left to right.
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| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-01 |
| Status | rejected 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)
.
Technical specification:
Specifying the language of content: the lang attribute
.
Feature: dir
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
Specifying the direction of text and tables: the dir attribute
.
This test case is obsolete because using the dir attribute is not required for accessibility.
Automatic evaluation.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case needs review before it can be established if it passes or fails the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#meaning-doc-lang-id. The code that causes doubt can be found at line 3, column 1.
The test case needs review before it can be established if it passes or fails the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#meaning-doc-lang-id. The code that causes doubt can be found at line 11, column 1.
The test case needs review before it can be established if it passes or fails the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#meaning-doc-lang-id. The code that causes doubt can be found at line 3, column 44.
The test case needs review before it can be established if it passes or fails the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#meaning-doc-lang-id. The code that causes doubt can be found at line 3, column 58.
The browser can find the primary language of the document.
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 test case fails the following success criterion at line 3, column 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 11, column 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 3, column 44: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 3, column 58: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The browser can find the primary language but not the text direction of the document.
The text direction on the html and body elements is missing, so it is assumed to be the default value: left to right.
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).
Online version: sc3.1.1_l1_056.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 3, column 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 11, column 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 3, column 44: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 3, column 58: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The browser can find the primary language but not the text direction of the document.
The text direction on the html and body elements is missing, so it is assumed to be the default value: left to right.