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UtteranceQueue implementAsSkeleton is an anti-pattern

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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42/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
accessibility

Research direction

Start by reading the UtteranceQueue implementation, especially implementAsSkeleton, and issue #17 for context. Check whether the skeleton is referenced by runtime or API validation; done means removing this implementation detail without changing the published UtteranceQueue API or behavior.

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Description

dev:phet-io priority:2-high

While working on https://github.com/phetsims/utterance-queue/issues/17, I'm pretty sure that we could get rid of this confusing implementation detail in UtteranceQueue (a remnant of baseline API files for PhET-iO). I don't think there is anything checking the runtime against what is expected to be in it. This shouldn't even be an API change, since the sims being published with description are the only ones that should have an UtteranceQueue.

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