| Title | Incorrect language identification for English text alternative for image in Dutch text |
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| Description | A page with Dutch content that contains a logo with a text alternative in English.
The English text alternative of the image is provided in the alt attribute of the img element, which also has a lang attribute with the value "english" instead of "en" for English.
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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)
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Technical specification:
Specifying the language of content: the lang attribute
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This test case is intended to fail because the language of the (English) text alternative of the image is not correctly identified. Only the language identification is tested here, not the quality of the text alternative or other features of the page.
Check whether the change in human language for the alt attribute of the image 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 9: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#meaning-other-lang-id.
The browser cannot determine the human language of the text alternative for the image in the document.
The image should have a lang attribute with value "en" instead of "english".
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 9: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-other-lang-id.
The browser cannot determine the natural language of the text alternative for the image in the document.
The image should have a lang attribute with value "en" instead of "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) but fails.
Online version: sc3.1.2_l2_013.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 9, column 9: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-other-lang-id.
The browser cannot determine the natural language of the text alternative for the image in the document.
The image should have a lang attribute with value "en" instead of "english".