diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/css/css-writing-modes/wm-propagation-body-044-ref.html b/testing/web-platform/tests/css/css-writing-modes/wm-propagation-body-044-ref.html
index 31e98673720e..9cf46c0b2146 100644
--- a/testing/web-platform/tests/css/css-writing-modes/wm-propagation-body-044-ref.html
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/css/css-writing-modes/wm-propagation-body-044-ref.html
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@
       padding-right: 16px;
       vertical-align: top;
     }
+  div
+    {
+      margin-left: -8px;
+      writing-mode: vertical-rl;
+    }
   </style>
 
 
@@ -24,4 +29,4 @@
   in the <strong>upper-left corner</strong> of the page.
   -->
 
-  <div style=margin-left:-8px>This text must be written horizontally.</div>
+  <div>This text must be written vertically, below the orange square.</div>
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/css/css-writing-modes/wm-propagation-body-044.html b/testing/web-platform/tests/css/css-writing-modes/wm-propagation-body-044.html
index 60d444ca8b2f..5993cee35934 100644
--- a/testing/web-platform/tests/css/css-writing-modes/wm-propagation-body-044.html
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/css/css-writing-modes/wm-propagation-body-044.html
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   <link rel="match" href="wm-propagation-body-044-ref.html">
 
   <meta name="flags" content="">
-  <meta name="assert" content="This test checks that when the root element has a &lt;body&gt; child element, then the principal writing mode is instead taken from the values of writing-mode and direction on the first such child element instead of taken from the root element. Also, a small script in this test verifies that the computed value of 'writing-mode' of the root element itself is not affected by such propagation. Finally, in order to make sure that the principal writing mode is indeed 'horizontal-tb', the test checks that a generated text's inline axis is indeed horizontal and not vertical.">
+  <meta name="assert" content="This test checks that when the root element has a &lt;body&gt; child element, then the principal writing mode is instead taken from the values of writing-mode and direction on the first such child element instead of taken from the root element. Also, a small script in this test verifies that the computed value of 'writing-mode' of the root element itself is not affected by such propagation. We also check that the computed value is unaffected by inheriting it into a pseudo element.">
 
   <!--
   Tests 032 to 035: html's writing-mode is not specified
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 
   html::after
     {
-      content: "This text must be written horizontally.";
+      content: "This text must be written vertically, below the orange square.";
       display: block;
     }