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From: Murray Inman
Date: Jul 25, 2022 7:11PM

Friendly greetings!
In an introductory Japanese course, there are several places where Japanese
words are written out using "rōmaji" which basically is the
pronunciation of the word written out using Roman characters. For example,
The Japanese word *ローマ字* would be written as *rōmaji*.

Would the best practice, both semantically and accessibility -wise, be to
add the lang="ja" attribute to a wrapper <span> element? HTML code example:
<span lang="ja">rōmaji</span>

My thinking is that yes, it should have the lang attribute because it is a
Japanese word. Anyone have any experience with the accessibility aspects of
this?

Thank you for your help!
Murray


Murray Inman

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