A document with an English sentence that contains a word in Italian. The change from English to Italian is not identified. (The span element containing the Italian word does not have 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 fail because the change in language is not identified.

Check whether any change in human language is correctly identified.

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A user agent may not be able to detect the change in language in the document's content.

This test case does not map to a WCAG 2.0 technique or failure.

A user agent may not be able to detect the change in language in the document's content.

This test case does not map to a WCAG 2.0 technique or failure.

Online version: sc3.1.2_l2_019.

A user agent may not be able to detect the change in language in the document's content.

In WCAG 2.0 (30 June 2005 Working Draft), it is not 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.