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Error · html-xml-lang-mismatch

Two different languages declared

Lighthouse / axe call it: HTML elements with lang and xml:lang must have the same base language · <html> element does not have an [xml:lang] attribute with the same base language as the [lang] attribute

The page declares one language in lang and another in xml:lang.

Who it leaves out: blind people (screen readers)

How to fix it

Make them match. Code included.

In the code

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