History
October 2026
The Language toggle component that this pattern uses changed in DWP Frontend 5.1.1. Its links now use only the language name as their accessible name. See the component’s history for details.
We plan to retire the DWP Language toggle component in favour of the GOV.UK Language navigation component. We will then update this pattern to use it.
May 2024
Created the Language toggle component out of this pattern, and rewrote pattern guidance to make this relationship clearer. The language toggle is a component in DWP Frontend 2.7.0 and later; the Toggle to Welsh pattern is a particular implementation of that component, but others are possible.
November 2021
Published.
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