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<v Instructor 1>Language.</v>

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Screen readers need to know what language they're reading

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to be able to pronounce things correctly.

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For the most part, screen readers don't automatically detect

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what language the page is written in,

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so you need to include the language code in the html tag

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in the beginning of the markup of the page.

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It could say lang="en", if the page is in English.

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That's an easy one to do, sometimes easy to forget as well.

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Changes in language.</v>

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If there's a phrase or section of text

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in a different language than the main language for the page,

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add the lang attribute to those sections.

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The lang attribute can be added to a span tag,

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a paragraph tag, a div tag, or any other tag as appropriate.