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RE: Canada's Common Look and Feel (sorta) explained (was RE: [WebAIM]This week's article: Content Language)

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From: Catharine Richardson
Date: Jan 23, 2006 2:30PM

I will just mention my particular bug-bear with the CLF.
Domain names.
The standard is the initials of the govt dept(in English) hyphen initials in
French (except of course where it is French/English instead). I can
guarantee the average Canadian hasn't a clue, what various government depts
are named (this week) in their own language of choice. Figuring out the
initials of the other official language is darned near impossible. Which
perhaps, was always the point of the rule - inaccessibility.
Somewhere along the line - the concept of two meaningful domain names
pointing at the same location was lost.....