Re: Your thoughts on updated "Icon Font with an On-Screen Text Alternative" Technique

Hi John,

Thank you for checking the technique and for your offer to help
wordsmith. Much appreciated.

Kindest regards,
Laura

On 7/29/16, Rochford, John <john.rochford@umassmed.edu> wrote:
> Hi Laura,
>
> I agree that description is more clear. I can help you wordsmith it later.
>
> Thank you for your work on this.
>
> John
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laura Carlson [mailto:laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2016 7:30 AM
> To: Low Vision Task Force <public-low-vision-a11y-tf@w3.org>
> Subject: Your thoughts on updated "Icon Font with an On-Screen Text
> Alternative" Technique
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Thank you so very much for our discussion yesterday [1].
>
> I updated the description for the "Icon Font with an On-Screen Text
> Alternative" [1] technique trying to incorporate ideas from our
> meeting. It now reads:
>
> <quote>
>
> The objective of this technique is to show how to provide a visible,
> text alternative for an icon font that conveys information.
> Icon fonts are fonts that use the Private Use Area (PUA) of Unicode.
>
> Typically they are inserted in HTML via the CSS @font-face declaration
> and generated content property. Since they are vectors they are
> scalable and resolution-independent.
>
> Icon fonts can have 2 problems:
>
> 1. Some people with disabilities may not use assistive technology (AT)
> and rely on on-screen text alternatives.
>
> 2. For those who do use AT, voicing of icon fonts may be inaccurate,
> nonsensical, redundant, or unpredictable.
>
> To solve these 2 problems aria-hidden="true" is used so AT will
> ignored the icon. Then an on-screen text alternative is added to
> convey meaning to everyone.
>
> <unquote>
>
> Thoughts? Is that clearer? Suggestions for improved verbiage?
>
> In addition, I added a definition section to the document per Andrew's
> suggestion of having an icon font definition. If anyone knows of
> better definitions please let me know and I can revise that section.
> The ones I found are very informal.
>
> Thank you.
> Kindest Regards,
>
> Laura
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/2016/07/28-lvtf-minutes.html
> [2]
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Icon_Font_with_an_On-Screen_Text_Alternative
> --
> Laura L. Carlson

Received on Friday, 29 July 2016 19:35:55 UTC