Patrick H. Lauke wrote about the ‘accessible’ examples:
> Not just disappear, but be potentially replaced with arbitrary/random characters in the overriding font, if present at those particular unicode code points.
Usually squares on my system, I’ve attached a screenshot for those that can see it, which shows each icon replaced with a square. I think it varies depending on your system and what font you use to override it.
Andrew wrote:
> I think that it is a problem if we forbid any method/technique/technology that can be used in an accessible manner.
We can include a fall back of adding semantics, so where their example has something like:
<i class="fa fa-trash-o" aria-hidden="true"></i>
It could add a role, e.g:
<i class="fa fa-trash-o" aria-hidden="true" role=”img”></i>
I haven’t tested to check whether you then get any issues with it lacking alt text, but my understanding is that adding a role doesn’t invoke the standard browser behaviours for that role, so I doubt it would be an issue.
Cheers,
-Alastair
