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Why the acronym tags?

One thing keeps bugging me about DITA... Why are a lot of tags acronyms and not natural language? Language is a code for people to learn (as we all know). So why put another code (the acronyms) on top of that? It only serves to complicate the accessibility of DITA. It doesn't seem very DITAish to overcomplicate things like that.

The corporate world suffers from the Acronym Disease, but I would think that professional communicators like us tech writers, would be clever enough to avoid this kind of exclusion and inaccessibility.

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50+ Exhibitors to Demonstrate Latest Content Management Solutions at 5th Annual Gilbane Boston Conference

Technology Showcase Offers Attendees Chance to Visit One-On-One with Leading Vendors to Learn Strategies for Managing Content from Any Source Including Social Media

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Looking for a DITA Technical Lead in or around Redwood City, CA or Austin, Texas

Informatica Corporation is a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software. Using Informatica products, Global 2000 companies can leverage their existing information assets for enterprise insight that helps them improve business performance, increase customer profitability, streamline supply chain operations and proactively manage regulatory compliance. More than 1,800 companies worldwide rely on Informatica to meet their end-to-end needs for enterprise data integration and business intelligence.

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DITA and Information Architecture

Presentation by Kristen James Eberlein at DITA Europe 2008, November 17

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Registration is Open for Conference for Software User Assistance

Registration is open for the seventeenth annual WritersUA Conference for Software User Assistance. The event takes place March 29-April 1, in Seattle, Washington. The conference features over seventy cutting-edge topics from over forty experts, project demonstrations from other user assistance developers, plus an exhibition of products and services, certificate programs, and networking events.

A conference focus is on structured authoring and DITA.
Sessions include:

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