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QA finding

The page does not declare its language, or declares it in a form browsers cannot use

QA Error Severity: Medium

Part of the audit Language declaration. Finding id: qa.langAttribute.

What it costs you

Screen readers pick the voice and pronunciation from this attribute. Without a usable value the page is read with the wrong accent or not at all. Browsers also use it to offer translation and to hyphenate.

What to do

Set lang on the html element to the language the page is written in.

What it checks

  • Page language not declared
  • Page language code is not valid

How to fix it

Declare the language on the html element

    How to check: View the source of the page: the html tag carries lang with the code of the page's language.

    Thresholds

    Thresholds for The page does not declare its language, or declares it in a form browsers cannot use
    NameDefaultMeaning
    well_formed_pattern(?i)^[a-z]{2,3}(-[a-z0-9]{1,8})*$Shape of a language tag: a two or three letter language, then optional parts separated by hyphens.