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8.10 On each web page, are changes in reading direction indicated?

WCAG references
  • 1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence (A)
Techniques
  • H56

Official methodology to test criterion 8.10

Test 1 (8.10.1)

  1. Find in the document passages of text that use a language that is read in the opposite direction to the document language (such as Arabic or Hebrew for French, for example).
  2. For each passage of text, check that the passage of text is contained in a tag which has a dir attribute.
  3. If this is the case for each passage of text, the test is validated.

Test 2 (8.10.2)

  1. For each passage of text validated in test 8.10.1, check that
    • The reading direction is correct (ltr, for the direction "left to right" and rtl for the direction "right to left")
    • The reading direction is relevant.
  2. If this is the case for each passage of text, the test is validated.