Understanding Accessibility

Guideline 4. Clarify natural language usage

Checkpoint 4.3 - Identify the primary natural language of a document.

How do I do it?

For braille devices and speech synthesisers to work correctly they need to know what natural language the text is written in. Simply modify the HTML tag so that the language of the text is specified. The example below shows how to specify the English language.

html

<html lang="en">

Xhtml

<html xml:lang="en">

How do I check that it meets the WCAG criteria?

Run your page through webXact's accessibility checker to validate this checkpoint automatically.

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