| Title | Incorrect 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 "uk" instead of "en" for English. ("uk" is the language code for Ukrainian.)
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| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-01 |
| Status | validated |
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
.
This test case is intended to fail because the language of the (English) expansion of the acronym is not correctly identified.
Check whether the change in human 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 fails the following success criterion at line 9, column 17: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#meaning-other-lang-id.
The browser cannot determine the natural language of the acronym in the document.
The acronym should have a lang attribute with value "en" instead of "uk" (Ukrainian).
This test case does not map to a WCAG 2.0 technique or failure.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 9, column 17: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-other-lang-id.
The browser cannot determine the natural language of the acronym in the document.
The acronym should have a lang attribute with value "en" instead of "uk" (Ukrainian).
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) but fails.
Online version: sc3.1.2_l2_008.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 9, column 17: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-other-lang-id.
The browser cannot determine the natural language of the acronym in the document.
The acronym should have a lang attribute with value "en" instead of "uk" (Ukrainian).