Re: Direct Outreach on Implementing WCAG 2.1

Hi Katie,

I read that page before sending this to EO. The approach is contradicts web
standards.

Title="meaning" is not a part of HTML or ARIA.  All icon font instances
should have role="img". That is standard. Question: when a partially
sighted person hovers over a title="meaning" what tool tip to they get,
"meaning" or the ARIA label. Also, the non SVG cases do not use
title="meaning" or role="img". This failure was to support LV, the user may
have no way to see an ARIA label. The "title" attribute has a deterministic
meaning in HTML, it is not meant to carry directions to compilers, browsers
or interpreters. role="img" has a deterministic meaning in ARIA. A program
can depend on its meaning.

AG has specified a way to avoid the failure. Awesome should just give the
proper result. There is no need to overload the "title" attribute with an
unintended role when a well defined ARIA role exists.

I like the idea of a tweat from EO. It is simple, authoritative and puts
Awesome on notice.

It wouldn't hurt to send out a notice to schools, and key industries
including icon font foundries. Awesome can suggest title="meaning", but we
should not certify it as standard until it is an official part of HTML,
otherwise compilers cannot depend on the meaning of "meaning".

Can you see this from the assistive technologies developer perspective. One
could put a span that encloses a critical sentence in an essay and add the
title="meaning" to indicate this sentence embodied the meaning of the
entire exposition. That is the problem with non-deterministic attribute
values.

Best, Wayne





On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 6:21 AM Katie Haritos-Shea <ryladog@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Wayne,
>
> I *think* Font Awesome has added what you are looking for via their
> auto-accessibility feature for SVG+JS for web fonts (on their virtually
> hidden Accessibility page) when a 'title' is added:
>
> https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/on-the-web/other-topics/accessibility#svg-semantic
>
>
> SVG with JavaScript: Semantic Icons
> <https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/on-the-web/other-topics/accessibility#svg-semantic>
>
> Getting accessibility right can be tough. So we’ve tried to make it as
> simple as we can with our auto-accessibility feature. Using a dash of JS,
> we add supporting HTML elements and attributes so that your icons are
> accessible to the widest audience possible.
>
> If your icon has semantic meaning, all you need to do is throw a
> title="meaning" attribute. Auto-accessibility takes care of the rest,
> adding the following:
>
>    - Proper ARIA role (role="img")
>    - title tag with a proper id attribute
>    - aria-labelledby attribute and wire it to the title tag
>
> Maybe you were looking for something simpler or different different?
>
> ** katie **
>
> *Katie Haritos-Shea*
>
>
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> On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 5:26 PM Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello EOWG Members,
>> Right now the most significant barrier to access for people with Low
>> Vision is lack of implementation for WCAG 2.1. I imagine this is also an
>> issue for Cognitive Disabilities as well.
>>
>> For low vision, on issue is particularly critical: Sticky headers,
>> footers and buttons disable the responsive gains of the past 8 years for
>> people who need responsive enlargement.
>>
>> Another serious issue is the failure caused by not including role="img"
>> on icon fonts. Icon fonts are great when they are identified semantically.
>>
>> I think a letter from EOWG to educational institutions in the US as well
>> as news outlets that these issues exists, constitute a significant barrier
>> and do not meet current standards could be very helpful.
>>
>> For example if Awsome Fonts accessibility page could include the need for
>> role="img" on "i" and "span" elements, it could have a dramatic impact.
>>
>> Consider this.
>>
>> Sincerely, Wayne
>>
>