diff --git a/wai-aria/scripts/aria-utils.js b/wai-aria/scripts/aria-utils.js
index 1e8fe266e7937f..76bc0bac8826e1 100644
--- a/wai-aria/scripts/aria-utils.js
+++ b/wai-aria/scripts/aria-utils.js
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ const AriaUtils = {
         // - https://github.com/w3c/accname/issues/192
         // - https://github.com/w3c/accname/issues/208
         //
-        // AccName reference's HTML's definition of ASCII Whitespace
+        // AccName references HTML's definition of ASCII Whitespace
         // https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#ascii-whitespace
         // which matches tab (\t), newline (\n), formfeed (\f), return (\r), and regular space (\u0020).
         // but it does NOT match non-breaking space (\xA0,\u00A0) and others matched by \s