Editorial: Normalize on using “accessibility child” — not “child elements”#2697
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This makes the following changes: - Replace all occurrences of “child element(s)” or “child(ren)” with “accessibility child(ren)”. - Make ever occurrence of “accessibility child(ren)” a hyperlink to where that term is defined in the spec. - Do similarly for “allowed child(ren)” — make those all actual hyperlinks to #mustContain.
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#mustContain.Rationale: To typical readers of the spec, it is ambiguous and misleading for the spec to be referring to something as a “child element” — or simply a “child” — in cases where that might not actually be a child in the DOM.
For a typical reader who sees the term “child element” or “child” on its own, it is completely reasonable for that reader to assume that what’s meant by that term is the same as what “child element” and “child” mean in the DOM spec and the HTML spec — and in basically every single other spec for the web platform, everywhere.
Readers cannot reasonably be expected to realize that only when they are reading this spec, “child element” and “child” do not have their normal meaning but instead actually mean “accessibility child”.
So instead always consistently using the (hyperlinked) term “accessibility child” makes the intended meaning unambiguous to readers.
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