I18N-Standard: Applies
Owner: Accessibility and language lead
Current state: English-only technical alpha
V1 scope: reviewed Spanish navigation, status definitions, limitations, correction/reporting instructions, and integration basics
Target date: 2026-11-13, before the V1 release-candidate evidence window
The canonical source evidence and government text remain in the language published by the authority. The product must not machine-translate statutes, source content, diffs, reviewer judgments, or legal terms and present that output as authoritative.
Implementation and release requirements live in
08-ACCESSIBILITY-I18N.md. The required workflow
is stable message IDs, a Spanish translator, an independent reviewer familiar
with trans and legal-information language, accessibility QA, and a fail-closed
staleness check. When an approved Spanish string is stale, the surface falls
back to clearly labelled English; it never serves an outdated translation as
current.
This declaration closes the ownership and scope ambiguity only. It does not
claim that catalogs, translations, reviewer sign-off, or the stale-string gate
already exist. Those remain V1 release gates in
15-V1-RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md.