- From: Steve Lee <stevelee@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:12:08 +0000
- To: public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org
And to actually answer you question - I'm not aware of any discussion. But I'm not sure if still a popular choice - that linked article was 2015 and unicode and SVG have come one leaps and bounds since then. Steve On 14/03/2019 15:07, Steve Lee wrote: > IMHO Icon font's were a temporary hack that has been replaced by better 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 >> >
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