WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: lang attribute for foreign words found in MerriamWebster's dictionary?

for

From: Moore,Michael (DARS)
Date: Apr 21, 2015 2:39PM

You don't need to use a lang attribute on words that have been adopted/appropriated by the native language of the page. Thus for an English page with the <html lang="en"> designation you would not want to have <span lang="fr">resumé</span>. To do so would probably cause the screen reader to pronounce it in a manner that was unintelligible to a native English speaker.

Mike Moore
Accessibility Coordinator,
Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services