[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 122261] AX: WebKit should avoid exposing lang=en defined on root <html> because it's frequently incorrect

Thu Oct 3 12:39:18 PDT 2013

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122261

--- Comment #5 from Darin Adler <darin at apple.com>  2013-10-03 12:38:13 PST ---
We have had to do things like this in the past. When an HTML feature exists, but is ignored, for a long time, we often have to continue ignoring it when we implement features that rely on it. It was harmless to have the language set wrong for such a long time that we can’t be pedantic about honoring it. This has been true, for example, for encoding. But there are many other examples.

I think that if we do this we should propose making the improved heuristic a future part of HTML standards, not just a WebKit-specific rule.

I agree with Alexey that this is not an accessibility-specific issue, so I would not want the heuristic in the accessibility code.

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