Create Accessible Multilingual Content
Princeton's Drupal templates will correctly default to identifying the English language as the language of each page. If you are authoring content inside of a page that is a language other than English you will have to identify the language code for that piece of content. A screen reader needs to understand what language text content is written in so it can read the text aloud in that language.
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Incorrect example of language usage
Correct example of language usage
Best Practice
At this time, the Drupal CMS has no easy way to identify languages on pieces of text other than using the source code editor.
Test
Use this Web Evaluation bookmarklet to discover languages on a page.
- Is there text present that you entered in a foreign language?
- Does that language have a <lang=”xx”>attribute?
Exceptions
None