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Re: Bobby WCAG checking

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From: Bill Mason
Date: Oct 24, 2002 2:53PM

At 02:15 PM 10/24/2002, Freda Lockert wrote:
>I've just had a page fail Bobby at Priority 3 because the language of the
>text is not identified. I'm puzzled, I have these two meta tags in the
>page, plus the XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD:
>
><.meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
><.meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en" />.

Bobby is looking for language identification in the HTML tag, e.g.:
<.html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">

Bill Mason
Accessible Internet
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http://www.accessibleinter.net/



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