A document with an English sentence that contains a word in Italian. The change from English to Italian is identified. (The span element containing the Italian word has a lang attribute with the value "it" for Italian.) Language identification for Italian word in English text Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be en Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 2005-09-01 validated Specifying the language of content: the lang attribute

This test case is intended to pass because the language of the Italian word is correctly identified.

Check whether any change in human language is correctly identified.

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A screen reader user should be able detect the change in language in the document's content.

This test case maps to technique H58: Using language attributes to identify changes in the human language.

A screen reader user should be able detect the change in language in the document's content.

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).

Online version: sc3.1.2_l2_018.

A screen reader user should be able detect the change in language in the document's content.

In WCAG 2.0 (30 June 2005 Working Draft), it is no longer required to identify the language for individual words.

A screen reader user should hear the change in language in the screen reader's speech synthesizer.

WCAG 1.0 required a lang attribute for every single change in natural language, even for single words.