Use They instead of He/She

[gautierchomel]

Section

EPUB Annotations Use Cases and Requirements

Describe the problem

We alternate between "He " and "She" pronouns, which excludes people who identify outside the gender binary and complicates the maintenance when we add a new use case.

Describe the fix or new feature you propose

I suggest using "they" as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun instead.

[iherman]

(I removed the "spec-annotation" label. Whatever the decision is, it should be consistent with all documents published by the group even if, in practice, we may not have, at this moment, any other relevant cases.)

[koalie]

Describe the fix or new feature you propose

I suggest using "they" as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun instead.

Yes, please do.
This should be indeed the case already. It is listed among the "Inclusive terminology" section of the W3C Manual of Style.