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RE: Another attempt at plain language

"Doug Ewell" <doug@ewellic.org> Fri, 11 September 2015 18:51 UTC

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From: Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org>
To: Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>, CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>, Tobias Bengfort <tobias.bengfort@posteo.de>, "ietf-languages@iana.org" <ietf-languages@iana.org>
Subject: RE: Another attempt at plain language
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Shawn Steele wrote:

> If it's intended to help the accessibility guidelines, then there's no
> real guarantee that it is indeed appropriately written as tagged.

Yeah, but there's never any sort of guarantee that content is correctly
tagged, for language or any other characteristic. That shouldn't stop us
here.

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