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Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 11 March 2010 17:38 UTC

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On 11.03.2010 17:54, Jorge Amodio wrote:
> Besides your eyes, (only one in some cases), you don't need any extra
> junkware to be able to read the RFCs, even better, without eyes you
> still can do it since text to speech works very nicely with ASCII.
> ...

I'd claim that accessibility for properly authored HTML will actually be 
better, for instance the markup can express whether something is prose 
or artwork.

Best regards, Julian

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