Update definition for "status message" #4840
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The current definition for "status message" https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#dfn-status-messages manages to somehow miss out the fact that a status message refers to an actual discrete "message". The current definition makes it sound like any change of content may be interpreted as an "intrinsic" status message (see discussion #4672).
This PR changes the (normative) definition to make it clear that the WG always intended this to refer to explicit "status messages", and not somehow mandate the need for any dynamic content update (such as dynamically updating a list of results) must trigger some sort of SR announcement.
Closes #4676
Preview (in context): https://deploy-preview-4840--wcag2.netlify.app/understanding/status-messages#dfn-status-message