On 26/5/09 18:39, designer wrote:
Solved it!
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="EN"/>
should be
<meta name="language" content="en" />
On the whole, this sounds more like a bug in the "validator" you're using.
The first snippet is correct; the second snippet has no specification
and no meaning to any consuming software AFAIK.
"meta name='language'" certainly isn't among the techniques suggested by
WAI (who instead suggest the "lang" attribute):
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#identify-primary-lang
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H57.html
Nor is it among the techniques suggested for declaring a document's
language by W3C's internationalization group:
http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-lang/
If you want to indicate language to assistive technology, put "lang" and
"xml:lang" attributes on your "html" element and any descendant elements
where the language is different. This is known to work in actual screen
readers like JAWS:
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/03/yahoo_search_re.html
W3C suggests using "meta http-equiv='content-language'" in a subtly
different way from the "lang" and "xml:lang" attributes:
http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-lang/#ri20040808.101452727
http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-lang/#ri20040728.121358444
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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