I think it was typo in the article. It would be physically impossible to have a wide range of firing angles if the interior part was narrow.
The wording is slightly unclear, but I can't imagine anyone this well-versed in medieval warfare wouldn't know that arrow slits would be wider inside than outside.
If I look at the old wall around my city's medieval centre we can clearly see they this:
From the outside: https://www.google.com/maps/@50.845463,5.6946097,3a,75y,330....
Inside: https://www.google.nl/maps/@50.8456076,5.6945364,3a,75y,165....
They held out for twenty years in the Ottoman siege I think.