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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Having your name mangled by autocorrect when you type it into your phone or computer can be frustrating and time consuming.
Whenever Sydney dental student Halla writes her name into her phone, it assumes there's a typo and suggests either "Hail" or "Halal".
The campaigners have written to tech giants, including Microsoft and Apple, and provided them with a spreadsheet of names they want embedded in their dictionaries.
In the open letter, the campaigners say 41 per cent of the names given to babies in England and Wales are considered "incorrect" by Microsoft's English UK dictionary.
Microsoft has recently changed some of its language to make it more gender-neutral, using terms such as "humanity" rather than "mankind", and "workforce" rather than "manpower".
Dr Badami said there were valuable tools such as the Australian Digital Inclusion Index to measure how different people interacted with technology.
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