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Re: Can HTML tagged content conform to WCAG 2.0 without <body>, etc?

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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Apr 21, 2015 1:50PM

> On Apr 21, 2015, at 14:47, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>> Ah, so doctype would be required for WCAG 2.0 if it resolves ambiguities, but not because it's required by the HTML specification?
>
> That's correct.

Thank you for the clarification.

Is this a generalizable point?

Would you say that metadata (<!DOCTYPE> being an example of such) which resolves ambiguities in content is required for WCAG 2.0 conformance generally?

Duff.