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Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> Tue, 15 September 2015 01:07 UTC

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From: Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>
To: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>, ietflang IETF Languages Discussion <ietf-languages@iana.org>
Subject: RE: Another attempt at plain language
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From: Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2015 4:31 AM

>> Tobias asked for this to be able to indicate that a web page is 
>> written to comply with W3C accessibility guidelines.
>
> I think that making such compliance claims is outside the scope of what we are doing. 

I agree. Language tags should be descriptions of linguistic aspects of the content, not assertions of conformance to somebody's content guidelines.



Peter

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