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Missing lang Attribute on HTML on WordPress
Screen readers cannot determine the correct pronunciation language. Required by WCAG 3.1.1.
Issue ID: A11Y-LANG-001Severity: majorEffort: S
Why this matters
Screen readers cannot determine the correct pronunciation language. Required by WCAG 3.1.1. This affects usability, compliance risk, and how many visitors can successfully consume the page.
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How to fix this on WordPress
These are usually theme-level fixes.
- 1Check your active theme or page builder output.
- 2Update the relevant setting or theme template.
- 3Clear caches and confirm the rendered HTML changed.
After you fix it
- ✓Check that <html> tag has a lang attribute
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Fix missing lang attribute on html on a different CMS
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