Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Deprecate HTML page lang and xml:lang attributes have matching values #2086

Merged
merged 3 commits into from
Aug 2, 2023
Merged

Deprecate HTML page lang and xml:lang attributes have matching values #2086

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
3 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
2352817
Deprecate HTML page lang and xml:lang attributes have matching values
WilcoFiers Jul 13, 2023
dfb6799
Apply suggestions from code review
WilcoFiers Jul 14, 2023
7bb5d9a
Merge branch 'develop' into deprecate-xml-lang
WilcoFiers Aug 2, 2023
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion _rules/html-page-lang-xml-lang-match-5b7ae0.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
id: 5b7ae0
name: HTML page lang and xml:lang attributes have matching values
name: DEPRECATED — HTML page lang and xml:lang attributes have matching values
rule_type: atomic
description: |
This rule checks that both `lang` and `xml:lang` attributes on the root element of a non-embedded HTML page, have the same primary language subtag.
Expand All @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ accessibility_requirements:
inapplicable: further testing needed
input_aspects:
- DOM Tree # The tree that HTML is parsed into.
deprecated: |
This rule has been deprecated, as modern screen readers no longer use xml:lang when the lang attribute is given, regardless of which MIME type the page is served with. This rule is not maintained anymore and should not be used.
acknowledgments:
authors:
- Jey Nandakumar
Expand Down