What’s broken?
When a document contains passages written in two different languages, it is not possible to declare the language on each portion of text. Passages in a foreign language cannot be tagged with the corresponding lang attribute, and passages in French cannot be explicitly assigned lang="fr" either.
What did you expect to happen?
The editor must allow the user to define the language of a selected text passage, so that the lang attribute is applied to the corresponding HTML element with the correct language code (e.g. lang="fr", lang="en", lang="de", etc.). Language changes in a document must be reflected in the generated markup.
Steps to reproduce
Create a document containing passages in French and passages in another language.
Select a passage in a foreign language.
Look for an option to declare the language of this passage.
Observe that no such functionality is available.
Possible solution
Add a "Text language" option in the formatting menu or in a context menu, which applies the lang attribute to the or block element surrounding the selection:
Impact
A blind user navigating with a screen reader reads a bilingual document. The screen reader renders passages in a foreign language with the French speech synthesis voice, producing incorrect and incomprehensible pronunciation. The user cannot access content in a foreign language under normal reading conditions.
BlockNote version
0.51.4
Environment
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Additional context
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Contribution
Sponsor
What’s broken?
When a document contains passages written in two different languages, it is not possible to declare the language on each portion of text. Passages in a foreign language cannot be tagged with the corresponding lang attribute, and passages in French cannot be explicitly assigned lang="fr" either.
What did you expect to happen?
The editor must allow the user to define the language of a selected text passage, so that the lang attribute is applied to the corresponding HTML element with the correct language code (e.g. lang="fr", lang="en", lang="de", etc.). Language changes in a document must be reflected in the generated markup.
Steps to reproduce
Create a document containing passages in French and passages in another language.
Select a passage in a foreign language.
Look for an option to declare the language of this passage.
Observe that no such functionality is available.
Possible solution
Add a "Text language" option in the formatting menu or in a context menu, which applies the lang attribute to the or block element surrounding the selection:
Impact
A blind user navigating with a screen reader reads a bilingual document. The screen reader renders passages in a foreign language with the French speech synthesis voice, producing incorrect and incomprehensible pronunciation. The user cannot access content in a foreign language under normal reading conditions.
BlockNote version
0.51.4
Environment
No response
Additional context
No response
Contribution
Sponsor