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Should we be using <html lang="en-GB"> not <html lang="en">?

See original GitHub issue

Page template is currently using <html lang="en">

I believe (un-tested) using <html lang="en-GB"> should tell a screenreader to switch to a British accent and pronounce words like aluminium, advertisement differently.

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  • State:closed
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Comments:5 (4 by maintainers)

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NickColleycommented, Jul 4, 2018

Comment from his blog post:

I had a screenreader user on complaining that my website made his screenreader read out oddly: turned out the en-gb tag was switching his TTS. Confused him utterly! Most users won’t have multiple TTS variants, I suspect, but might be best to stick with “en” rather than “en-gb” and “en-us” so as not to surprise users?

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NickColleycommented, Jul 4, 2018

Looks positive, let’s do some testing 😃

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