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. Correct <html:code>lang</html:code> and <html:code>xml:lang</html:code> attributes and missing text direction for content in Arabic Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be en Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 2005-09-01 rejected QA Specifying the language of content: the lang attribute 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This test case is obsolete because using the dir attribute is not required for accessibility.

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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 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 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.