| Title | Incorrect lang and xml:lang attributes for content in Slovak |
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| Description | A page with an excerpt from a proposed "Constitution for the European Union: Slovak version" (http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2004:310:0011:0040:SK:PDF).
The html element has lang and xml:lang attributes with the value "tr", the language code for Turkish, instead of "sk" for Slovak.
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| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-01 |
| Status | accepted QA |
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 primary natural language is not correctly identified: the correct language is Slovak, not Turkish.
This test case can be evaluated automatically when using a test tool with reliable automatic language recognition for both Slovak and Turkish, support for lang and xml:lang attributes and language tags.
Automatic evaluation.
“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 3, column 44: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 3, column 58: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The browser cannot find the primary language of the document.
The html element has incorrect lang and xml:lang attributes (tr for Turkish, instead of sk for Slovak).
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).
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 3, column 44: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 3, column 58: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The browser cannot find the primary language of the document.
The html element has incorrect lang and xml:lang attributes (tr for Turkish, instead of sk for Slovak).