Specify The Language Used On Every Page
If you don’t specify the language that the content of your page is written in, screen readers will ‘guess’ at the language used – and may well get it wrong.
This is especially true of technical pages, or pages where the content is based on a topic that uses a lot of terminology or topic specific vernacular.
You can also use lang= on the <div>, <span> and <p> tags (to name a few), meaning that a paragraph of German text can be identified to a screen reader by using: <p lang=”de”>
Tip: Using <html lang=”en”> in your <head> identifies the page as being written in the English language.
Written by Shaun Anderson
