[w3ctag/design-reviews] Incubation: Proofreader API (Issue #1146)

QueenieZqq created an issue (w3ctag/design-reviews#1146)

### Explainer

https://github.com/webmachinelearning/proofreader-api/blob/main/README.md

### The explainer

- [x] Includes the information requested by the [Explainer Explainer](https://w3ctag.github.io/explainer-explainer/#introduction).
- [x] Follows the [Web Platform Design Principles](https://www.w3.org/TR/design-principles/).
- [x] Includes or links to answers to the [Security/Privacy Questionnaire](https://www.w3.org/TR/security-privacy-questionnaire/).
- [ ] Describes user research you did to validate the problem and/or design.

### Where and by whom is the work is being done?

- GitHub repo: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/proofreader-api
- Primary contacts:
  - Queenie Zhang (@queeniezqq), Google, editor
- Organization/project driving the design: Google
- This work is being funded by: Google
- Incubation and standards groups that have discussed the design:
  - Web ML Community Group https://github.com/webmachinelearning/meetings/blob/main/telcons/2025-03-12-cg-minutes.md#proofreader-api

### Feedback so far

- Multi-stakeholder feedback:
  - Chromium comments: We are excited to start trialing this API with developers through origin trials and behind-a-flag experiments.
  - Mozilla comments: 
  - WebKit comments: 
  - Web developers:
    - Public feedback on https://github.com/webmachinelearning/proofreader-api/issues was mixed. To summarize, some themes we saw include: asking for more capabilities (e.g. integrating custom dictionaries; adding confidence score to correction output); desire to make sure the API performs efficiently in real-world use cases like proofreading during active editing of the text.

### You should also know that...

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