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clarification on instructions for language #737

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In item #3 at https://www.w3.org/community/reports/publishingcg/CG-FINAL-epub-techniques-20250422/#accessibility-summary-instructions it states

IF accessibility_summary is NOT empty:
THEN display the content of accessibility_summary with language_accessibility_summary as language.

the with language_accessibility_summary as language part initially caused confusion with our implementors. They assumed this called for displaying the HTML language code (e.g. ENG) along side the rest of the accessibility summary text. While this can be ambiguous in a literal reading of the spec, I assured them that the intent here was that statement as language was to ensure that the text was appropriately tagged in the HTML with the appropriate language (i.e. <p lang="es">Este es un texto en español.</p>)

This should be clarified.

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