Whodunit

Jb Audras

Guillaume TURPIN

Disclaimer: This plugin was merged into WordPress Core. It is not relevant anymore to install it. I plan to ask for a removal from the repo by the end of the year.
The intent of this plugin is to provide a way to ensure any language change in the content of a page is indicated to assistive technologies. This feature is not available by default in the block editor so it is difficult to make a website fully compliant to WCAG guidelines using the block editor for now.
We clearly hope this feature will be natively implemented in the block editor in middle term, because this very simple feature is really needed to help people to create accessible websites. But in short terms, we need a solution and this plugin is a solution you may want to use to make your website compliant to accessibility guidelines 🙂
For more context: this plugin helps you to make your website compliant to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) success criterion 3.1.2: “Language of Parts”. The purpose of this success Criterion is to ensure that user agents can correctly present content written in multiple languages.
As per Web Content Accessibility Guidelines:
This makes it possible for user agents and assistive technologies to present content according to the presentation and pronunciation rules for that language. This applies to graphical browsers as well as screen readers, braille displays, and other voice browsers.
Both assistive technologies and conventional user agents can render text more accurately if the language of each passage of text is identified. Screen readers can use the pronunciation rules of the language of the text. Visual browsers can display characters and scripts in appropriate ways.
This is especially important when switching between languages that read from left to right and languages that read from right to left, or when text is rendered in a language that uses a different alphabet. Users with disabilities who know all the languages used in the Web page will be better able to understand the content when each passage is rendered appropriately.

Lang Attribute for the Block Editor

Add lang attribute to the text formatting toolbar in the block editor.

Geoffrey

To improve your SEO and the accessibility of your content, you must declare changes of language within your content. 
You must also declare translations of your pages to Google to avoid duplicate content.
TinyMCE: For the people still in this old editor, buttons are available to add <code>lang</code> and <code>hreflang</code> attributes on your content, therefore to improve accessibility when screen readers are reading words from different languages than your main page language.
Gutenberg: For Gutenberg users, WordPress already provide the “Language” menu. When selecting a text you can add a specific language. This plugin will enhance this behaviour with its own command, and by remembering the last language code you used. 
This plugin also comes with a hreflang option that you can put on links to tell users “this link lead to a French website” for example.
Example of cases you need this plugin:
<ul>
<li>You translated a blog post in your language from another blog, (hreflang alternate links)</li>
<li>You publish the same article in 2 languages on 2 different websites, (hreflang alternate links)</li>
<li>You use in your content a jargon from another language. (<code>lang</code> attribute)</li>
<li>You link from your post other posts in another language. (<code>hreflang</code> attribute)</li>
<li>Your Menus have some items not translated (<code>lang</code> attributes) or lead to page in another language (<code>hreflang</code>), you can edit those attributes in the Menus admin-menu. (WordPress 5.4 compatibility) If you have a FSE (Full Site Editing) theme, I don’t know how this will work for you, but you can use the Gutenberg commands this plugin put at your disposal.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features available</h3>
<ul>
<li>Custom <code>hreflang</code> alternate links for posts (page, and custom posts)</li>
<li>Attributes <code>hreflang</code> and <code>lang</code> available and visible in the editor</li>
<li>Attributes <code>hreflang</code> and <code>lang</code> available on your main Menus items. (WordPress 5.4 compatibility)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Known bugs</h3>
In old version of Gutenberg, the <code>hreflang</code> attribute on links is applied, but never save it in database. That is because <code>hreflang</code> is cleaned from WordPress posts. Indeed, it was not well recognized by the WordPress post sanitizing function.
You can donate to support
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Please, use the support forum to tell me bugs encountered, and be patient
<h3>Other plugins</h3>
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/juiz-social-post-sharer/" rel="ugc">Juiz Social Post Sharer</a>: if you need social buttons. 
<a href="https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/juiz-outdated-post-message/" rel="nofollow ugc">Juiz Outdated Post Message</a>: if you want to put a warning on old post on your blog. 
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-can-i-use/" rel="ugc">Embed Can I Use</a>: if you talk about support of HTML 5, CSS3 or JS API, you need to embed Can I Use support tables. 
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-integration-for-bluesky/" rel="ugc">Social integration for BlueSky</a>: Add a Profile Banner, a list of your recent BlueSky Posts, or an auto syndication on BlueSky with this plugin.

Juiz Lang Attribute

Add a custom HREFLANG meta box on your post to manually edit the link between your post and a translation (which could be outside your domain).

Lang Attribute for the Block Editor vs Juiz Lang Attribute