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From: Angela French
Date: Wed, Jan 14 2009 1:15PM
Subject: Failing 13.2 - language meta data
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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">
and
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en" />
Does anyone know if this is a CynthiaSays bug, or have I don't something wrong?
Thank you!
Angela French
Internet Specialist
State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
360-704-4316
http://www.checkoutacollege.com
http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu
From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Wed, Jan 14 2009 5:50PM
Subject: Re: Failing 13.2 - language meta data
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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">
>
> and
>
>
> <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