• Success Criterion 3.1.2
  • Conformance level AA

Language Attribute Copy-Pasted Onto the Wrong Piece of Text

3.1.2 — Language of Parts

Scenario

Setting

A survey tool's question builder

What’s wrong

Wrong part-level lang values inherited from copy-paste.

Example

<p>Please visita nuestra tienda.</p>

Why it matters

Screen-reader users hearing mixed-language content with the wrong voice rules.

How to test

Inspect a lang attribute that appears to be copy-pasted or inherited incorrectly at the part level: verify it matches the actual language of that specific text.

How to fix

The passage in another language must carry its own correct lang attribute.

<p>Please visit <span lang="es">nuestra tienda</span>.</p>

A lang attribute on the foreign-language span switches the screen reader's pronunciation for just that phrase.

Outcome

On a survey tool's question builder, this barrier is gone for screen-reader users hearing mixed-language content with the wrong voice rules — they no longer have to work around this.

Who is affected

Screen-reader users hearing mixed-language content with the wrong voice rules.

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