- Success Criterion 3.1.2
- Conformance level AA
User-Generated Content in Another Language Never Tagged
3.1.2 — Language of Parts
Scenario
Setting
A crowdfunding platform's campaign page
What’s wrong
User-generated content areas known to be another language with no lang handling strategy.
Example
Try this on a crowdfunding platform's campaign page: user-generated content areas known to be another language with no lang handling strategy.
Why it matters
Screen-reader users hearing mixed-language content with the wrong voice rules. On a crowdfunding platform's campaign page, that means they get garbled or unintelligible screen-reader output.
How to test
Check user-generated content areas known to include other languages: verify there's a strategy (even a simple lang wrapper) for marking non-page-language UGC.
How to fix
The passage in another language must carry its own correct lang attribute.
Outcome
With the fix in place on a crowdfunding platform's campaign page, they get accurate screen-reader output.
Who is affected
Screen-reader users hearing mixed-language content with the wrong voice rules.
Learn more
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- No Way to Programmatically Tell Which Language a Passage Uses
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- Language Switcher Link With No Language Tag of Its Own
- Mixed-Language Legal or Product Text Left Entirely Unmarked
- Language Attribute Copy-Pasted Onto the Wrong Piece of Text
- Bilingual Layout Where One Column’s Language Goes Unmarked