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Comment LC-1260: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Henny Swan <henny.swan@rnib.org.uk> on behalf of Royal National Institute of the Blind; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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Comment: The paragraph "This requirement does not apply to individual words or to phrases that have become part of the primary language of the content. For example, "rendezvous" is a French word that has been adopted in English, appears in English dictionaries, and is properly pronounced by English screen readers." does not give enough guidance to developers as to what individual words or phrases qualify as a change in language.

For example, some words are *just* entering the English language or are names used in products. For example is does Bordeaux wine have to have Bordeaux marked up?

Proposed Change:

Give further examples of how to clarify if a word should be marked up or not. One example may be is the word is in the dictionary for the natural language of the page (i.e. in the UK the word is in the Oxford English Dictionary).; Related issues: LC-913
(space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMB] Discussed in the 21 September 2006 telecon: Resolution: send LC-913, LC-1260 back to Team B, to clarify that the SC only applies to phrases and passages and not to individual words http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2006/09/21-wai-wcag-minutes.html Discussed in the 28 September 2006 telecon: Resolution: Send 913, 1260 back to Team B for further work http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2006/09/28-wai-wcag-minutes.html Discussed in the 19 October 2006 telecon: back to Team B http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2006/10/19-wai-wcag-minutes.html Discussed in the 01 February 2007 telecon: resolution: Accept 913 and 1260 as amended http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/02/01-wai-wcag-minutes.html {accept} SEE ACTIONS FOR LC-913 (DONE); Resolution: We have added the following to the Intent section of SC 3.1.2 to clarify that such uses generally do not need to be marked up: Frequently, when the natural language of text appears to be changing for a single word, that word has become part of the language of the surrounding text. Because this is so common in some languages, single words are not included in this success criterion.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)