I suggest to use for the default lang the language which starts the body: the first word is english or chinese?
And for each section that is in the other language (that not is the default) you should specify the other language. I hope it will be hopefull. -- Diego La Monica Web: programmazione, standards, accessibilità e 2.0 Brainbench certified (transcript ID # 6653550) for: RDBMS Concepts; HTML 4.0 W3C HTML WG IWA/HWG Member Responsabile liste IWA Italy ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Web Skill Profiles WG Member ( http://skillprofiles.eu ) phone +390571464992 - mobile +393337235382 MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: diego.la.monica - ICQ #: 249-460-264 Web: http://diegolamonica.info On 07/09/07, Tee G. Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am working on a bilingual site (chinese/english) that needs to pass > at least WCAG AA, the site is UTF-8 charset and I didn't use lang > attribute in the meta because it's a bilingual site. > > and I am getting this error on Priority 3 Verification Checklist: > > 4.3 Identify the primary natural language of a document. > > * Rule: 4.3.1 - Documents are required to use the META element > with the 'name' attribute value 'language' in the Head section. > o Note: This rule has not been selected to be verified for > this checkpoint. > * Rule: 4.3.2 - The HTML (Root) element must use the 'lang' > attribute. > o Failure - The HTML (Root) element does not use the > 'lang' attribute. > > > What do you propose I should do to make the 'failure' goes away? > > Thanks! > > tee > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
