Page lang
is invalid
Accessibility Checkpoint
Description
Page lang
attribute contains an invalid language.
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A BCP 47 lang
attribute consists of hyphen-separated subtags. The first subtag identifies a natural language by its ISO 639 language code (e.g. en
for English) and may be followed by additional subtags. The most common additional subtag is a two-letter ISO 3166 country code (e.g. US
for the United States to form en-US
). IANA maintains a registry of allowed subtags. A empty lang
attribute is allowed (and means unknown language) but a lang
containing only spaces is not allowed and causes a random language to be selected in a screen reader.
Applicable standards
- ACT Rules bf051a
- WCAG 2.0 (Success Criteria: 3.1.1 level A)
- WCAG 2.1 (Success Criteria: 3.1.1 level A)
- WCAG 2.2 (Success Criteria: 3.1.1 level A)
- Section 508 (2017) (Success Criteria: 3.1.1 level A)
Note: Section 508 Refresh (2017) checkpoints are equivalent to WCAG 2.0 level A and level AA checkpoints.
Change history
- 6.40 Jan 2021 Added - split from HTML W3cHtml5Error-RnvErAval-lang.
This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.
Rule ID: AccHtmlPageLangInvalid