Re: Design pattern question - typography and icon fonts

IMHO Icon font's were a temporary hack that has been replaced by better 
approaches - Unicode emojis and SVG.

The issues is that screen readers read the apparently random character 
code used to represent the icon 9even though inserted via CSS)

EG

https://cloudfour.com/thinks/seriously-dont-use-icon-fonts/

Steve

On 14/03/2019 12:25, James A. wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> I am working on the design pattern “Use clean typography and 
> punctuation”. I am focussing on areas of typography that cause problems 
> for people using text to speech or who personalise the page. One issue I 
> would like to address is the use of icons fonts. When they started to 
> become popular a few years ago, there were people raising issues that 
> icons didn’t appear if people swapped to different fonts and that icons 
> were read out as Unicode by text to speech. I can’t find this issue in 
> any other patterns or gap analysis so I wanted to know if had been 
> discussed before I was part of the group?
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Abi
>

Received on Thursday, 14 March 2019 15:07:26 UTC