YLB ScoreYLB Score › The checks, explained › Part III, Will a stranger trust you?
Your page does not say what language it is in
One missing setting means a screen reader may read your site out in the wrong voice, with the wrong pronunciation. It is also the first thing an accessibility checker looks for.
One word, in one place.
Worth about 2 points of your 100 for a typical businessAbout 5 min, by your web person
See for yourself
WAVE reports a missing language setting at the top of its results.
- Free toolWAVE, the free accessibility checker
How to fix it
- Have your web person set the page language to British English on every page.
The technical version, for your web person
lang attribute. <html lang="en-GB">. Presence of any lang value earns the mark.
What the check reads. <html lang=...> attribute is present.
This is one of the checks in a YLB Score report. Every report is free, read by a person before it goes out, and written so that you can act on it without us. Ask for yours.