- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:00:03 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
On 20/04/2017 14:50, David MacDonald wrote: > Here's the current thinking around icon font accessibility > > http://fontawesome.io/accessibility/ While that is reasonable (incidentally, I contributed to this ages ago - see https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/9566 and https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/pull/8950), it avoids the fundamental problem of user-selected fonts. More up-to-date thinking on the topic is probably "Death to Icon Fonts" https://speakerdeck.com/ninjanails/death-to-icon-fonts > Are these icons going to disappear if the font family is over ridden by > a user style sheet? Not just disappear, but be potentially replaced with arbitrary/random characters in the overriding font, if present at those particular unicode code points. P -- Patrick H. Lauke www.splintered.co.uk | https://github.com/patrickhlauke http://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | http://redux.deviantart.com twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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