Linter for well-known noninclusive words

[saschanaz]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Some specifications still have noninclusive words including blacklists: https://w3c.github.io/webcrypto/KeyDiscovery.html

A linter will be helpful to detect and remove them.

Describe the solution you'd like

Warn wherever such words exist with a way to suppress it

[marcoscaceres]

@alice linked to this on twitter:
https://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html

I think it would be awesome to have this as a linter, along with recommendations for alternatives.

@saschanaz, something you'd wanna build?

[sidvishnoi]

Specberus has this already: https://github.com/w3c/specberus/blob/main/lib/rules/structure/neutral.js

Might be better to delegate that to spec-prod instead of ReSpec? w3c/spec-prod#3

[saschanaz]

Good idea 😃

[marcoscaceres]

I guess it depends if we can get echidna checks running earlier... it's nice getting those kinds of warnings early in the spec development process (i.e., as someone is editing locally, instead of pre-publication).

[marcoscaceres]

Closing as we now support pub rules on spec-prod.