Another attempt at plain language

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Tue Sep 15 02:10:31 CEST 2015


From: Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at 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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