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Web Accessibility: assigning language in a Web page

Duration = 4:00 min Level = beginner/ expert Disability concerned = visual

Video tutorial n°5

 

Description

 

It is essential to define the language of a document. This allows some assistive technologies, including voice synthesis, to adapt more easily to content.
In this example, John explains the inconvenience caused when changes in language are not indicated. Here, the mispronunciation of the sentence is only unpleasant to hear, but in many cases, poor coding can make a Web page incomprehensible.

 

Video tutorial

 

Spanish translation made by Lucas Bride Chinese translation made by Lianhui Zhou – English translation made by Ruth Woodrow


Resources

 

For more information about assigning language in html document:

  • WCAG 1.0 : directive 4
  • RGAA test points 4.1 and 4.3

Contribute to translation

 

Contribute to the dissemination of this educational video abroad by translating the subtitles of this video :

  1. Download the French subtitles file, Spanish, Chinese or English in SRT format
  2. Send by email the translated file with subtitles in SRT format to the Access-Key team