Web Governance
Page is missing a language attribute
This check primarily benefits:
This section provides pass and fail examples for this check.
Web Governance<html lang="fr">
<head>
<title>Exemple de page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Bonjour le monde !</p>
</body>
</html>The lang="fr" attribute correctly identifies the page as French.
<p>This is an English paragraph.</p>
<p lang="es">Este es un párrafo en español.</p>The lang="es" attribute correctly marks the Spanish text.
lang attribute<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Example Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, world!</p>
</body>
</html><head>
<title>Example Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, world!</p>
</body>
</html><html> element<html>
<head>
<title>Example Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, world!</p>
</body>
</html>Without a lang attribute, screen readers may use the wrong pronunciation rules.
<html lang="">
<head>
<title>Example Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, world!</p>
</body>
</html>An empty lang attribute is invalid and does not provide useful information.
<html lang="english">Ensure that there is a valid language code, for example, english is not a valid language code. The correct code is en.
This section provides information about how to review and fix a lang attribute.
<html> element.<html> tag and confirm that there is a lang attribute with a valid value.Add a valid lang attribute.
If the attribute is missing, add the correct language code to the <html> tag:
<html lang="en">Fix any empty or incorrect lang attribute values.
Ensure that the lang attribute contains a valid BCP 47 language code, such as:
en (English)
fr (French)
de (German)
es (Spanish)
zh-CN (Simplified Chinese)
If the page contains multiple languages, apply langattributes where needed:
<p lang="it">Questo è un testo in italiano.</p>For the official list of language tags, visit: IANA language subtag registry.
For more information about BCP 47 language codes, visit Language tags in HTML and XML.
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