This standard provides requirements and recommendations for technical terminology and communications in the English language that are more inclusive. These requirements apply to technical information in communications, such as standards, policies, plans, procedures, reports, specifications; machine-readable languages, and other forms of human-readable technical communications. This standard includes requirements for the processes of identifying and replacing non-inclusive and deprecated terminology. This standard identifies deprecated terms and acceptable replacement terms.

This standard provides requirements and recommendations for technical terminology and communications in the English language that are more inclusive. These requirements and recommendations apply to technical information in communications, such as standards, policies, plans, procedures, reports, specifications, machine-readable languages, and other forms of human-readable technical communications. This standard includes requirements for the process of identifying and replacing non-inclusive and deprecated terms. This standard identifies deprecated terms and recommends standardized and acceptable replacements.