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Re: Failing 13.2 - language meta data

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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Jan 14, 2009 5:50PM

On 14/1/09 20:14, Angela French wrote:
> I am using CynthiaSays and checking for Priority 1,2,3. I am failing on 13.2 even though I have:
>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US">
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> and
>
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> <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en" />

Why have you specified the primary language inconsistently?

> Does anyone know if this is a CynthiaSays bug, or have I don't something wrong?

WCAG 1.0 Checkpoint 13.2 is "Provide metadata to add semantic
information to pages and sites". There's a lot more metadata you could
provide than linguistic information; the Guidelines give author and type
of content as examples. Indicating language is actually covered
separately in Checkpoints 4.1 and 4.3.

More generally, I don't know how we are supposed to form a judgement
about whether you or CynthiaSays are doing something wrong without an
example page that triggers the problem.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis