Declared language does not match the content on WordPress
What this is
The page says it is "?" but the text looks like "?". Screen readers will mispronounce the whole page.
Who it affects
- Screen reader users
Standards
How to fix it
- Change the `lang` on `<html>` to the language the page is actually written in.
- If only some passages are in another language, mark those with their own `lang` attribute.
On WordPress
Settings → General → "Site Language" sets the `lang` attribute. Multilingual plugins (WPML, Polylang) set it per page.
Other platforms
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