Closed Bug 474308 Opened 17 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Non-English content is marked up with an xml:lang attribute of "en-us", causing incorrect pronounciation through screen reading software

Categories

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Product:
developer.mozilla.org Graveyard
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: MarcoZ, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

(Keywords: access)

When visiting the above URL, the following is in the header of the resulting HTML: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-us" lang="en-us" > The content, however, is clearly German. The result, when viewing this page with a screen reader for the blind, is that the German text is being read by using an English voice, meaning German words get pronounced with English phonetics and pronounciation rules, making it impossible to decipher. The value of the language attribute put here must be sensitive to the actual content displayed. Since the system knows what language the content is in, it should set the xml:lang and lang attributes accordingly. Otherwise, text simply isn't intelligible.
Blocks: 519025
Hi Marco. We are currently redeveloping the software that powers the MDN. I have opened bug 675836 to ensure we do not make the same mistake MindTouch did. For now, it seems that MindTouch has in fact fixed this bug. German doc pages, for example, use the following markup: <html lang="de" dir="ltr" id="developer-mozilla-org"> Marco, Sheppy, Raymond: Can you confirm that this has been fixed?
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Priority: -- → P3
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Component: Deki Infrastructure → Other
Product: developer.mozilla.org → developer.mozilla.org Graveyard
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