Please help to clarify "authors" in 1.1

[lianqi]

Hi TAG, when translating this document into Chinese, I finding more clarification is needed to translate the term "authors" more accurately.

In 1.1, it says "Spec developers, authors, and reviewers can use it to guide their thinking. " And there is another sentence mentioning this word in the following paragraph, saying "For actionable guidance applicable to spec editors, site authors, and others designing and building parts of the web platform". Therefore, it seems the "authors" in the first paragraph of 1.1 probably means "site authors".

Different documents/groups in W3C have different concepts/ways of use for "author". If the terms such as "author" and "developer" appears alone, it can be confusing about which group of people it refers to.

Here are some examples.

• In Process Document, it is used as "authors of the specification".
• In A11Y, it is used at content author, see more in ATAG2.0.
• In I18N, it is used as content/website author. And the same seems to apply to CSS WG as well.