- From: Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 19:10:38 +0000
- To: public-low-vision-a11y-tf <public-low-vision-a11y-tf@w3.org>
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When you change a webpage to use the font of your preference icon fonts often break. Also some screen magnifiers may disable support for certain fonts, e.g. at one point ZoomText did this in Firefox and the result was just odd characters everywhere an icon was supposed to be. I would imagine something like SVG might be better. There is also the discussion of emoji which we might want to discuss. Jonathan Jonathan Avila Chief Accessibility Officer SSB BART Group jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com<mailto:jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com> 703.637.8957 (Office) Visit us online: Website<http://www.ssbbartgroup.com/> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/SSBBARTGroup> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/ssbbartgroup> | Linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/company/355266?trk=tyah> | Blog<http://www.ssbbartgroup.com/blog/> Check out our Digital Accessibility Webinars!<http://www.ssbbartgroup.com/webinars/> From: Jim Allan [mailto:jimallan@tsbvi.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 2:52 PM To: public-low-vision-a11y-tf Subject: Icon Fonts?? Anybody have thoughts on Icon Fonts? here are the proposed techniques... .Using aria-hidden="true" on an icon font that AT should ignore https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_aria-hidden%3Dtrue_on_an_icon_font_that_AT_should_ignore Icon Font with an On-Screen Text Alternative https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Icon_Font_with_an_On-Screen_Text_Alternative Using aria-hidden="true" on Unicode characters that AT should ignore https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_a_Decorative_Unicode_Character Unicode Character with an On-Screen Text Alternative https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Providing_an_On-Screen_Text_Alternative_for_an_Icon_Font Are there any techniques related to magnification or folks with low vision? -- Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired 1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756 voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9264 http://www.tsbvi.edu/ "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964
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