Open Bug 1654345 Opened 4 years ago Updated 4 years ago

Missing lang attribute not causing error WCAG 3.1.1

Categories

(DevTools :: Accessibility Tools, enhancement)

Product:
DevTools
Component:
Accessibility Tools
Version:
79 Branch
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: andy, Unassigned)

Details

Attachments

(1 file)

no-lang.html
161 bytes, text/html
Details
Attached file no-lang.html —

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

Audit an HTML document without any language indication.

Actual results:

Firefox accessiblity tools does not file an error for the missing language indicator.

Expected results:

The missing lang attribute of the html element should be cause an error.

See WCAG 3.1.1, Sufficient Techniques:

H57: Using language attributes on the html element

Type: defect → enhancement
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