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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.

  1. 1Check your active theme or page builder output.
  2. 2Update the relevant setting or theme template.
  3. 3Clear caches and confirm the rendered HTML changed.

After you fix it

  • Check that <html> tag has a lang attribute

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